THE
CITY OF OLIVETTE FIRE
DEPARTMENT
FACTS ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
The
City of Olivette Fire Department
The
City of Olivette Fire Department is located West of the City of St. Louis
in St. Louis County, Missouri. It covers about 3.5 square miles with a population
of 7,573.
The
Department is rated “4” by the Insurance Services Office (ISO), among ratings
ranging from 1 through 10 with 1 as the highest. This rating is based on several
factors of your fire department, including the number of full time fire-fighters
and their training, response time, fire fighting equipment and fire prevention.
The fire-fighting vehicles and equipment owned by the city includes a 1993
Pierce Dash Pumper, 1996 Ford 350 Rescue 4x4,, 1975 Seagrave Pumper, two staff
vehicles 1998 Ford Crown Victor, 1999 Jeep Cherokee.
The
Fire Department is a career department with a staff of twenty-two. We have
three Shifts, each shift has seven personnel and is made-up of (1) District
Chief, (1) Captain, (1) Firefighter, (4) Paramedic/Firefighters. Each shift
works a Twenty-four hour rotation, at the end of a five day rotation they
get four days off. Each firefighter works an average of 56 hours per
week. The Fire Chief works eight hours a day, five days a week and on
call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
The
department runs about 480 Fire & Mutual Aid calls, and about 602 EMS calls
per year out of one fire station. The Rescue squad is used for EMS and is
advance life support (ALS) equipped, we do not transport patients we use a
private Ambulance for transport to the hospital, the department modeled this
from the TV show years ago called “Squad 51” in LA.
