Why Do We?

1. Why do we paint the fire hydrants funny colors?
The fire hydrants are painted in accordance with national standards. The yellow helps the fire fighters easily locate a fire hydrant and the cap and bonnet color, identifies the amount of water flow that can be expected out of the hydrant.

2. Why do we send fire apparatus on emergency medical responses?
In 1994, this fire district entered an agreement with Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services, to provide first responder medical assistance on all life threatening emergencies.

3. Why do we have white fire trucks? Fire trucks are supposed to be red?
White fire apparatus is a tradition of this fire district, that dates all the way back to 1955. In the late 1980's several studies were done, and is was determined that white fire apparatus had a higher visibility level on the roadways, than the traditional red.

4. Why do other fire departments show up along with us?
You will see other department arrive along with because of one of three reasons. We utilize many of the fire departments bordering us for Automatic Mutual Aid on high life hazard structures. Secondly, a department could be standing by and making additional responses for us because we are currently tied up on another emergency. Lastly, one of the recommendations from the Merger Task Force Public Safety Committee was that the Fire Departments utilize Closest Station Response.