I would like to personally welcome you to the City of Lawrence Fire Department.

We serve a community of approximately 44,000 citizens from four fire stations with 70 career firefighters, as well as 9 civilian emts.  The fire department responded to over 3500 ems runs and 1050 fire runs in 2006. 

Our firefighters, in addition to providing fire protection, also provide Emergency Medical Services. All of our fire apparatus, three engines and a ladder have paramedics on them.  In addition to fire apparatus, we have three basic/advanced life support ambulances, which transport to all of the area hospitals.

Our firefighters and civilian emts are trained in top water rescue, dive rescue, line rescue, basic and heavy auto extrication and are certified at the command/operational level in hazardous materials responses.

We are very proud of the many skills that our firefighters and civilian emts possess, they train daily to provide the best service to our community.

As you tour through our website, please feel free to direct any questions that you might have regarding our department to any of our divisional chief officers or to me at dcarlson@cityoflawrence.org.