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Ottawa Fire Service 
Motto: Protecting the Nation's Capital with pride Established 2001 (OFS), 1839 (Original) Staffing Career/Paid On-Call Strength 1285 Battalions 9 Stations 43 Engines 51 Trucks 18 Rescues 6 EMS Level CFR-BLS Fire chief Chief of Department John deHooge
Ottawa Fire Service (OFS) protects the lives, property and environment of the people who live, work and visit the City of Ottawa. Service personnel are highly trained to respond to a wide variety of emergency and non-emergency incidents including fires, rescues and medical and hazardous-material emergencies. The department's headquarters is located on Carling Ave.Contents
Organization
Like most North American fire departments, the Ottawa Fire Service is organized in a paramilitary fashion. The current Chief of the department is John deHooge. Serving Under deHooge are three Deputy Chiefs, four Platoon Chiefs, five Division Chiefs, four Rural Sector Chiefs and twenty District Chiefs. At the station level, each station has a Captain for each of the four platoons. Each truck in the fleet is under the command of either a Captain or Lieutenant.
History
The current Ottawa Fire Service came into existence in 2001 with the amalgamation of 9 fire departments from Ottawa and the surrounding areas. The nine former departments include the Ottawa Fire Department, Gloucester Fire Department, Cumberland Fire Department, Kanata Fire Department, Nepean Fire Department, Osgoode Fire Department, Rideau Valley Fire Department, Goulbourn Fire Department and West Carleton Fire Department.
Operations
There are 44 fire stations located across Ottawa, including 16 Paid On-Call stations and 5 composite stations, making the OFS the largest composite fire department in Canada. The stations are assigned to 9 district operations units. On Friday September 3rd, 2010, Chief deHooge announced that a three year trial testing the use of 24 hour shift rotations would begin in January 2011. In Canada twelve of the fifteen largest fire departments are using the 24 hour shift rotation.
Equipment
Currently, City of Ottawa firefighters are being issued tan Starfield Lion bunker gear, black leather STC Marshall structural fire boots, and Yellow Cairns 664 Invader helmets. The department uses ISI Viking SCBAs. There is currently talk of switching to black Cairns 1044 helmets.
Fleet
At amalgamation, the newly formed OFS purchased 20 brand new HME pumpers to begin the process of building a uniform fleet of vehicles. Along with the purchase of the new vehicles, the OFS inherited most of the pre-amalgamation vehicles from the 9 former departments. The current strength of the OFS fleet stands at 96 vehicles, not including chief's vehicles. Apparatus are identified by a letter to identify the vehicle type, followed by a number to identify the station, for example; P13. The various types of apparatus in service include:
- Pumper (P11) or (P11B when station runs more than one Pumper)
- Ladder (L13)
- Rescue (R53)
- Tanker (T73) or (T73B when station runs more than one Tanker)
- Pump-Tank (PT93)
- Haz-Mat (HM24)
- Technical Rescue (TR12)
- Squad (S45)
- Brush Truck (BT71)
- Water-Rescue (WR53)
- Air Tender (AT54)
- Rehabilitation Unit (RH54)
Fire Stations
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Station Number Firehouse Address Neighborhood Pre-Amalgamation Station Number Station 11 135 Preston Street Little Italy & China Town Ottawa Fire Department #2 Station 12 635 O'Connor Street The Glebe Ottawa Fire Department #10 Station 13 530 King Edward Avenue Sandy Hill/University of Ottawa Ottawa Fire Department #3 Station 21 1300 Woodroffe Avenue College Ward Ottawa Fire Department #11 Station 22 1397 Richmond Road Lincoln Heights Ottawa Fire Department #12 Station 23 1443 Carling Avenue Westboro Ottawa Fire Department #1 Station 24 230 Viewmount Drive Carleton Heights Nepean Fire Department #2 Station 25 60 Knoxdale Road Crestview Nepean Fire Department #4 Station 31 3255 Conroy Road Greenboro Ottawa Fire Department #14 Station 32 3202 Leitrim Road Leitrim Gloucester Fire Department #3 Station 33 3336 McCarthy Road Huntclub Ottawa Fire Department #9 Station 34 700 Brookfield Road Riverside Park Ottawa Fire Department #7 Station 35 2355 Alta Vista Drive Alta Vista Ottawa Fire Department #8 Station 36 900 Industrial Avenue St. Laurent Ottawa Fire Department #4 Station 37 910 Earl Armstrong Road Ottawa McDonald-Cartier Airport Built after amalgamation Station 41 380 Eagleson Road Glen Cairn Kanata Fire Department #3 Station 42 1021 Teron Road Beaverbrook Kanata Fire Department #2 Station 43 3845 Richmond Road Bell's Corners Nepean Fire Department #1 Station 44 1075 Greenbank Road Barrhaven Nepean Fire Departent #3 Station 45 1040 Riddell Drive March Kanata Fire Department #1 Station 46 34 Iber Road Kanata West Built after amalgamation Station 51 900 Montreal Road Carson Grove Ottawa Fire Department #5 Station 52 6213 Jeanne D'Arc Convent Glen Gloucester Fire Department #2 Station 53 500 Charlemagne Blvd Fallingbrook Cumberland Fire Department #1 Station 54 3080 Innes Road Blackburn Hamlet Gloucester Fire Department #4 Station 55 1700 Blair Road Pineview Gloucester Fire Department #1 Station 56 275 Coventry Road Overbrook Ottawa Fire Department #13 Station 57 220 Beechwood Avenue Vanier Ottawa Fire Department #6 Station 61 3150 Kinburn Side Road Kinburn West Carleton Fire Department #1 Station 62 6900 Harbour Street Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Fire Department #2 Station 63 341 Bayview Drive Constance Bay West Carleton Fire Department #3 Station 64 475 Donald B. Munro Drive Carp West Carleton Fire Department #4 Station 66 3285 Dunrobin Road Dunrobin West Carleton Fire Department #6 Station 71 1246 Colonial Road Navan Cumberland Fire Department #3 Station 72 2445 Old Montreal Road Cumberland Village Cumberland Fire Department #2 Station 73 6090 Rockdale Road Vars Cumberland Fire Department #4 Station 81 1641 Main Street Stittsville Goulbourn Fire Department #1 Station 82 6280 Perth Street Richmond Goulbourn Fire Department #2 Station 83 2352 Roger Stevens Drive North Gower Rideau Valley Fire Department #1 Station 84 3449 Old Almonte Road Corkrey West Carleton Fire Department #5 Station 91 8011 Victoria Road Metcalfe Osgoode Fire Department #1 Station 92 3110 Nixon Drive Osgoode Osgoode Fire Department #2 Station 93 6891 Parkway Road Greely Osgoode Fire Department #3 Station 94 5669 Manotick Main Street Manotick Rideau Valley Fire Department #2 Support Offices
Office Address Division Ottawa Fire Service Headquarters 1443 Carling Avenue Head Office Ottawa Fire Service Headquarters 1443 Carling Avenue Fire Department Administration Ottawa Fire Service Headquarters 1443 Carling Avenue Equipment Maintenance Division Ottawa Fire Service Headquarters 1443 Carling Avenue Safety Officer's Division Ottawa Fire Service Headquarters 1443 Carling Avenue Central Bureau of Investigations and Prevention The Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre 655 Shefford Road East Bureau of Investigations and Prevention Ben Franklin Place 101 Centerpointe Drive West Bureau of Investigations and Prevention Charles Sim Municipal Garage 2799 Swansea Crescent Fleet Maintenance Division Ottawa Fire Service Training Center 900 Industrial Avenue Training Division Ottawa Fire Service Communications Center 2355 Alta Vista Drive Communications and Dispatch Division Ottawa Fire Service Air Management Center 3080 Old Innes Road Air Management and Rehabilitation Division Notable Incidents
The history of the Ottawa Fire Department includes several notable incidents, including the 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire
See also
References
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