Salt Lake City Fire
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Salt Lake City Fire
Salt Lake City Fire Department serves all of Salt Lake City as well as Salt Lake International Airport. 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
Station 1 211 South 500 East Salt Lake, UT. 84111 Station 1 houses a Paramedic engine, A Gold Cross Ambulance and it is the home station for Battalion Chief 1. |
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Station 2 270 West 300 North Salt Lake, UT. 84103 |
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Station 3 1085 East Simpson Ave. (2250 South) Salt Lake, UT. 84106 |
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Station 4 830 East 11th Ave. Salt Lake, UT. 84103 |
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Station 5 1023 East 900 South Salt Lake, UT. 84102 |
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Station 6 948 West 900 South Salt Lake, UT. 84104 |
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Station 7 273 North 1000 West Salt Lake, UT. 84116 |
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Station 8 15 West 1300 South Salt Lake, UT. 84115 |
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Station 9 5822 West Amelia Earhart Dr. Salt Lake, UT. 84116 |
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Station 10 785 Arapeen Dr. (2250 East) Salt Lake, UT. 84108 |
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Station 11 581 North 2360 West Salt Lake, UT. 84116 |
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Station 12 1085 North 2260 West Salt Lake, UT. 84116 |
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Station 13 2360 East Parley's Way (2150 South) Salt Lake, UT. 84109 |
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Station 14 1560 South Industrial Rd. (1900 West) Salt Lake, UT. 84104 |
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.