Hagerman Fire Protection District
The District provides Fire/and EMS services to the Hagerman Valley and surrounding area, around 110 square miles. Our staff are all volunteer other than our Chief, and one full-time Firefighter/EMT. Our Fire Division provides protection in structure fire and wild-land fire, they also provide extrication rescue, low angle rescue, and some water rescue. On average, we respond to 400 emergency incidents per year, our emergency dispatch services are provided by SIRCOMM (Southern Idaho Regional Communications Center) located in Jerome, Idaho.
The EMS Division is licensed by the State of Idaho as a Basic Non-Transport Agency. We provide initial care for our patients, transport of our patients to hospitals is provided by Gooding County EMS for the portion of our district that lies within Gooding County and by Magic Valley Paramedics for that portion of the district that lies within Twin Falls County.We also utilize air medical services for our more critical patients, this service is primarily provided by Air St. Lukes.
We currently have 26 volunteers on staff plus the full-time Chief and a Assistant Chief. Additionally, we've got 21 firefighters in the Fire Division, 8 are cross trained as EMT plus we've got 6 EMT's serving in the EMS Division.
The District is governed by an elected board of three commissioners, one serving as a Chairman, we have a District Secretary and our station has 8 engine bays that house our response vehicles, these vehicles consist of:
- 1-Type 1 Structure Engine
- 1-Type 1 4000 Gallon Water Tender
- 1-Type 1 2000 Gallon Tactical Water Tender
- 2-Type 4 Wildland Engines
- 1-Type 6 Wildland Engine
- 2-EMS Rescue Vehicles
- 2-Command Vehicle
- 1-All Terrain Medical Rescue Vehicle
- 1- Tow/Crew Vehicle and Transport Trailer
Recent Comments