Tucson Fire Department (TFD), Arizona

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About Tucson Fire Department (TFD), Arizona

This group is dedicated to the men and women of the Tucson Fire Department (TFD) that protect the citizens of Tucson, Arizona the "Old Pueblo" 24 hours a day/7 days a week. We invite all who would like to help honor the TFD Firefighters in pictures to post them here.

Acceptable photos would include: fire apparatus, fire stations, firefighters, patches/logos/emblems, and incidents (Please no explicitly graphic accident shots).

Want to learn more about the Tucson Fire Department, go to their website at: www.tucsonaz.gov/fire/



More information about the Tucson (AZ) Fire Department:
As of July 1, 2006 the City of Tucson’s population is estimated at 538,050. In addition, the number of visitors has been estimated at 2.7 million per year.

To protect this population, the Tucson Fire Department staffs 21 fire stations and a Regional Public Safety Training Academy. Our engine, ladder/ladder tender and paramedic companies are equipped with the latest capabilities and technologies, and our personnel are kept up-to-date with training in the latest firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical procedures and methods.

Each engine, ladder/ladder tender company, for example, is now equipped with a thermal imaging camera, which allows firefighters to see through smoke and darkness and rescue victims more quickly: thus saving lives. Our ladder/ladder tender companies are equipped with specialty rescue equipment ranging from swift water rescue tools (for plucking people from flash-flooded washes), to new extrication tools such as power rams, power spreaders and power cutters (for getting people out of burning or collapsed buildings, or cars mangled in wrecks).

Operations is divided into 4 Major Emergency Services.

Fire Suppression
Emergency Medical Services and ALS Transport
Hazardous Material Control
Technical Rescue
The Operations Front Line Apparatus

22 Class A Pumpers, with 9 of these being PAUs’
10 Full 100 ft Ladder Trucks
9 Ladder Tenders
18 Paramedic Transport Units
1 2500 gl Water Tender
2 HazMat Trucks
1 Technical Rescue Truck
2 Brush Trucks
1 Recovery Van
1 Command Truck
2 RRT Trucks - Rapid Response Team (Disaster Response)
1 APL - Air, Power and Light Truck
1 Box Truck (Mass Casualty Response)
3 Alpha Trucks (Human Services Response Vehicle)

http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/fire/