Fire Services in Durham Region
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Fire services in Durham Region
, Ontario
, Canada
, are provided by each municipality. There are 27 fire stations across the region.
Fire and Emergency Services consists of 100 full-time staff operating from three fire halls. The department has six pumpers, two aerials, a pumper/tanker and rescue truck. The stations are as follows:
Brock
Township Fire Department is mainly a part-time operation, with 68 part-time staff and a full-time chief, full-time fire prevention officer operating from three fire halls. Vehicles operated include six pumpers, three rescue vehicles and three tankers. The department operates from the following stations:
Clarington
Fire Services consists of 50 full-time staff and approximately 120 part-time staff operating from five fire halls. Equipment consists of seven pumpers, one aerial, one rescue, one brush truck and five tankers. The department operates from the following stations:
Oshawa
Fire Services consists of over 170 full-time staff operating from five fire stations. The service operates seven pumpers, two aerials, one aerial platform, one rescue and one tanker. There are five fire stations:
Oshawa Fire Services responds to calls at Oshawa Airport
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Pickering
Fire Services consists of 94 full-time staff and 8 part-time firefighters operating from 4 fire halls. The department has five pumpers, an aerial, two telesquirts, three tankers, two heavy rescue trucks and a brush truck. All stations are now full time halls and are as follows:
Hall # 1 was located at Kingston Road at Rosebank Road in a quantset hut. The old Brougham Fire Hall is now an abandoned antiques store on Highway 7 between Old Brock Road and Brougham Road.
Scugog
Township Fire Department is mainly a part-time operation, but there are a number of full-time staff. The department operates five pumpers and two rescue units from two fire halls. These stations are:
Uxbridge
Fire Department consists of three full-time staff and 34 part-time staff operating from one fire hall. Equipment consists of three pumpers, one tanker and a rescue. The single station is located at 17 Bascom Street.
Whitby
Fire and Emergency Services consists of over 140 full-time staff operating from 5 fire halls. The department has eight pumpers, two elevated platforms, a tanker and rescue truck. The stations are as follows:
Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto, Ontario. It has an area of approximately 2,500 square kilometres. Durham Region is considered part of the Greater Toronto Area, with the communities...
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Ontario
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Canada
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Operations
AjaxAjax, Ontario
Ajax is a town in the Durham Region in the Greater Toronto Area.The town is named for the HMS Ajax a Royal Navy cruiser that served in World War II. Ajax is a part of the Greater Toronto Area and the...
Fire and Emergency Services consists of 100 full-time staff operating from three fire halls. The department has six pumpers, two aerials, a pumper/tanker and rescue truck. The stations are as follows:
- Hall 1 - 40 Westney Road North
- Hall 2 - 435 Monarch Avenue
- Hall HQ - 900 Salem Road North
Brock
Brock, Ontario
Brock is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Brock Township is also a former municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality.-History:...
Township Fire Department is mainly a part-time operation, with 68 part-time staff and a full-time chief, full-time fire prevention officer operating from three fire halls. Vehicles operated include six pumpers, three rescue vehicles and three tankers. The department operates from the following stations:
- Hall #1 - SunderlandSunderland, OntarioSunderland is a community located approximately 100 km northeast of Toronto, Ontario in Brock Township, in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.-Business and Commerce:...
- Hall #2 - CanningtonCannington, OntarioCannington is a community located in Brock Township, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada.-History:Originally part of the original Brock Township, Cannington was first settled in 1833. It was originally known as McCaskill's Mills after a local mill-owning family...
- Hall #3 - BeavertonBeaverton, OntarioBeaverton is a community in Brock Township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.Originally part of Thorah Township in Ontario County, Beaverton was first settled in 1822. The settlement is located on Lake Simcoe at the mouth of the Beaver River...
Clarington
Clarington, Ontario
Clarington is a municipality in Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Durham. It took its present name in 1994 after having been known as the Town of Newcastle from 1974-93. The name change was made to alleviate long-standing confusion between the municipality as a whole and the included...
Fire Services consists of 50 full-time staff and approximately 120 part-time staff operating from five fire halls. Equipment consists of seven pumpers, one aerial, one rescue, one brush truck and five tankers. The department operates from the following stations:
- Hall #1 - 2240 Highway 2, BowmanvilleBowmanville, OntarioBowmanville is the largest community in the Municipality of Clarington in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario about 75 km east of Toronto and 15 km east of Oshawa along Highway 2...
(HQ) (Staffed by full-time firefighters) - Hall #2 - 247 King St. East, NewcastleNewcastle, OntarioNewcastle is a community in the Municipality of Clarington in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. The Town of Newcastle was also the original name of what is now Clarington....
(Staffed by part-time firefighters) - Hall #3 - 5708 Main St., OronoOrono, OntarioOrono is a community in the Municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Highway 35/115, approximately a 45 minute drive east of Toronto.-History:...
Staffed by part-time firefighters) - Hall #4 - 2611 Trulls Rd., CourticeCourtice, OntarioCourtice is a community located in Ontario, Canada, about sixty kilometers east of Toronto, adjacent to Oshawa and west of Bowmanville in the Municipality of Clarington. Courtice Road connects with Highway 401 at Interchange 425, providing arterial access to the community...
(Staffed by full-time firefighters) - Hall #5 - 2354 Concession 8, Enniskillen Staffed by part-time firefighters)
Oshawa
Oshawa, Ontario
Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. It is now commonly referred to as the most...
Fire Services consists of over 170 full-time staff operating from five fire stations. The service operates seven pumpers, two aerials, one aerial platform, one rescue and one tanker. There are five fire stations:
- Hall #1 - 199 Adelaide Avenue West (HQ)
- Hall #2 - 1111 Simcoe Street South
- Hall #3 - 50 Beatrice Street East
- Hall #4 - 50 Harmony Road North
- Hall #5 - 1550 Harmony Road North
Oshawa Fire Services responds to calls at Oshawa Airport
Oshawa Airport
Oshawa Municipal Airport, , is a municipal airport adjacent to the north end of the city of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Oshawa Airport is one of the major general aviation airports in the Greater Toronto Area It includes two paved runways and instrument approaches...
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Pickering
Pickering, Ontario
Pickering is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, the largest metropolitan area in Canada.- Early Period :...
Fire Services consists of 94 full-time staff and 8 part-time firefighters operating from 4 fire halls. The department has five pumpers, an aerial, two telesquirts, three tankers, two heavy rescue trucks and a brush truck. All stations are now full time halls and are as follows:
- Hall # 2 - 553 Kingston Road
- Hall # 4 - 4941 Old Brock Road, ClaremontClaremont, OntarioClaremont is a Southern Ontario community located in the north part of the City of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.It is one of many rural villages with suburban type housing mixed with older, historic buildings in the Greater Toronto Area. Brock Road, the main north-south Regional road in the area was...
- Hall # 5 - 1616 Bayly Street - (HQ) opened 1970
- Hall # 6 - 1115 Finch Avenue
Hall # 1 was located at Kingston Road at Rosebank Road in a quantset hut. The old Brougham Fire Hall is now an abandoned antiques store on Highway 7 between Old Brock Road and Brougham Road.
Scugog
Scugog, Ontario
Scugog is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, south-central Ontario, Canada. A smaller Scugog Township was also a historic municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality.-History:...
Township Fire Department is mainly a part-time operation, but there are a number of full-time staff. The department operates five pumpers and two rescue units from two fire halls. These stations are:
- Hall #1 - 30 Crandel St., Port Perry
- Hall #2 - 3550 Durham Road 57, Caesarea
Uxbridge
Uxbridge, Ontario
Uxbridge is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Durham, in the Greater Toronto Area.The main centre in the township is the namesake community of Uxbridge...
Fire Department consists of three full-time staff and 34 part-time staff operating from one fire hall. Equipment consists of three pumpers, one tanker and a rescue. The single station is located at 17 Bascom Street.
Whitby
Whitby, Ontario
Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region...
Fire and Emergency Services consists of over 140 full-time staff operating from 5 fire halls. The department has eight pumpers, two elevated platforms, a tanker and rescue truck. The stations are as follows:
- Hall # 1 - 6745 Baldwin St., BrooklinBrooklin, OntarioBrooklin is a community in the Town of Whitby, Ontario, Canada. It is located,North of the urban area of Whitby,at the South junction of Ontario Highways 12 and 7....
- Hall # 2 - 1600 Manning Rd.
- Hall # 3 - 1501 Brock St. South
- Hall # 5 - 111 McKinney Dr. (HQ)
- Hall # 6 - 734 Dundas St. West
See also
- Durham Regional Police Service
- Durham Region EMSDurham Region EMSDurham Region EMS provides emergency medical services to Durham Region in Ontario, Canada.The service has 260 paramedics in ten EMS stations throughout the region...
- Vancouver Fire and Rescue ServicesVancouver Fire and Rescue ServicesVancouver Fire and Rescue Services was founded in 1886 and today serves the city of Vancouver, British Columbia providing both fire and emergency medical services. In 2007, the V.F.R.S. responded to over 43,000 emergency calls.-History:...
External links
- Ajax Fire
- Clarington Emergency and Fire Services
- Oshawa Fire
- Pickering Fire Services
- Uxbridge Fire Department
- Whitby Fire Services
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