We Are Your Calgary Firefighters
Firefighters don’t just fight fires. We do a lot more. We are the first on scene to car crashes on Deerfoot, we’re on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, and we perform water rescues throughout the year. Your Calgary Firefighters responded to nearly 90,000 emergency incidents, which is approximately 250 calls per day, last year. Half of these calls were for medical interventions. The overall call trend has increased almost 50% since 2020.Calgary is the fastest-growing city in Canada
More than 100,000 people moved here last year. That's the equivalent of the population of Red Deer moving to Calgary in just one year.Red Deer has five fire halls and nearly 200 firefighters. By comparison, last year, we added 117 new firefighters and 1 fire hall to our service, at the same time that 38 firefighters retired or left the service. Thus, we increased our force by less than 100 firefighters.
If this rapid growth continues, we’ll be a city of 2 million people by 2030.
This means more and more communities, more urban sprawl, and more demand for emergency services.
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Are We Ready?
As Calgary grows towards a population of 2 million, our fire service must grow with it — stronger, faster, and better supported. We need the engines, tools, staff and firehalls to reach all Calgarians as quickly as possible, whether they live in a downtown apartment tower, or a suburban house on the outskirts of the city.We must prioritize recruitment and retention of firefighters to ensure we can meet the increasing demands of a rapidly growing city. We must keep up with this growth to ensure the safety of Calgarians.
Images courtesy of Chad Eklund, @emergencyyc