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 - Station Map with Station Information
• 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)