Salt Lake City Fire

Salt Lake City Fire

Salt Lake City Fire Department serves all of Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake International Airport as well. The department has 14 stations that provide 8 ALS engine companies, 3 BLS engine companies, 3 ladder truck companies, 2 quint or haz-mat units, 3 ALS quick response squad units, ARFF units, Aux units for wild land fire, and special operations. The department has its own dispatch located in the Public Service Building. Salt Lake City partners with Gold Cross Ambulance for 911 ambulances. This is achieved through a combination of placing ambulances at select fire stations, Gold Cross stations, and roving ambulances to pre-determined points.

Salt Lake City Fire Notes and Info:

Paramedic Units
Salt Lake City Fire operates 9 Paramedic, or ALS Units. The "Para" prefix is frequently left off in radio traffic or colloquial speech. The unit is a Paramedic unit when there are at least 2 paramedics staffing the unit. Other apparatus besides the designated engines are not typically called Paramedic units even if they have 2 or more paramedics on board.

The Paramedic units are:
Medic Engine 1
Medic Engine 2
Medic Engine 3
Medic Engine 5
Medic Engine 7
Medic Engine 8
Medic Engine 11
Medic Squad 12 (airport response only)
Medic Engine 14

PMA/PMR
Gold Cross ambulances have the 500 series designation. Unlike fire dept ambulances in the county, they will not take the "Medic Ambulance" designation. Instead, they will be PMA (Paramedic Ambulance) when the fire dept paramedics are on board en-route to the hospital. PMR is Paramedic return. Either the engine will be PMR, meaning the Engine follows the ambulance up to the hospital to pick up the medics or the ambulance will be PMR , meaning the ambulance will drive the medics back to their station after clearing the hospital. PMA does not automatically equal PMR.

Special Ops
Special Ops is a unit the carries extra gear and equipment for large haz-mat and heavy rescue incidents"

External Links

• Salt Lake City Fire Official Webpage
• Salt Lake Fire - Incidents CAD
• Salt_Lake_City_Live_Feeds Live Feeds Page

Stations and Apparatus

Southwest Ambulance (2007-2010)
Southwest Ambulance provided ambulance services to SLC from 2007-2010. Since then, Gold Cross had been the ambulance provider for SLC. All the info on SWA is no longer applicable, but kept for historical value. All Southwest Ambulances and crews are assigned to certain districts which match the districts of the fire stations. There are seven full time ambulances with one housed at fire station 11 and the rest in Southwest Ambulance stations. Salt Lake City Fire Department and Southwest Ambulance use the same dispatch channels. The full time ambulances are 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, and 14. Units 2,4, 6,9, and 10 are brought on as needed for large incidents, special events, medical stand-bys, and any additional need for reserve units.

Reserve, Retired, and Misc

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  (Salt Lake City Mass Decontamination Trailer)

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  (Salt Lake City Aerialscope)

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  Areialscope

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  (Battalion 2)

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  (Salt Lake City Water Tender 2909)

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  (Salt Lake City Rehab Tent)

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  (SLC Fire Tahoe)

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  (SLC Fire Car)

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  (Fire Pickup)

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  (Fire Car)

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  (Battalion 1)

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  (Old Salt Lake City Ladder)

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  (Old Salt Lake City Engine)

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  (Salt Lake City Hazmat Reserve)

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  (Salt Lake City Reserve Engine 124)

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  (Salt Lake City Reserve Engine 122)

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  Ladder 130 (reserve)

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  (Salt Lake City Reserve Engine 121)

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  (Aux 161 (Training Tower))

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  E10, T5, E13 (House Fire)

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  Mobile Command