July 24, 2017

Fire Service Volunteer

We currently have 2 methods of volunteering dependent on your needs and area of residence.

1) District Volunteers:

Generally speaking live or work inside the boundaries of one of our 14 fire areas which allows them to respond from their residence or office to your fire station whenever a crisis call is gotten. There aren't any skills necessary to start taking part in this fashion and education can be acquired via the Santa Fe County Fire division Volunteer Academy, once you registered as a member.

2) Local Volunteers:

This system is actually for individuals who live outside the boundaries of our districts (within city limitations or perhaps in another county). These volunteers must attend the Santa Fe County Fire division Volunteer Fire Academy before doing work in the field as a volunteer. When the academy is full, they work 12 hour changes (7:00am to 7:00pm every time they desire) along side the paid staff. Minimal needs for this amount of account are:

Effectively pass a Firefighter Civil provider test - 100 concerns, multiple-choice;

Successfully finish the bodily Agility Test - timed step test & changed fight challenge;

Successfull completion of Santa Fe County Volunteer Fire Academy which consist of listed here classes:

SFCFD Orientation - 12 hours

Firefighter 1st Aid / CPR - 12 hours

Hazmat Awareness & Operations - 40 hours

Wildland Fire Behavior S130/190 - 32 hours

Firefighter 1 - 80 hours

History

The first fire district becoming produced by the Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners had been the Pojoaque Fire District in 1959. By 1982 there were eleven officially recognized fire districts within the County and a twelfth was at the entire process of forming. The Fire Districts defined the area whereby crisis solutions (fire, relief and EMS) had been offered. In February of 1997 the Santa Fe County Fire division was formally organized beneath the administration of just one fire chief with solution areas further defined by area and district. The first county fire districts were consolidated into the Department for administrative supervision functions and paid firefighters were put into geographic regions to guide and augment the solutions supplied by those districts.

The Santa Fe County Fire Department happens to be supported by over 340 volunteer users who are responsible for responding to fire, rescue and EMS problems twenty-four hours per day, three hundred and sixty-five days per year.