Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal

Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal
Established	1863
Staffing	Career
Strength	2,305 uniformed 418 other & support
Stations	65
Engines	65
Trucks	50
Squads	7
Rescues	3
EMS Level	BLS
Fire chief	Serge Tremblay (Director of Fire Services)

Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM) is responsible for fire and rescue operations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. EMS first-response has been available in limited areas since 1976 and to the entire service area since 2009. The SIM is the 8th largest fire department in North America. The department offers High Angle Rescue (stations 13 & 27), Collapse Rescue (station 47), HazMat (station 29), Ice Rescue and Nautical Rescue.

History

Paid fire services in the city of Montreal date back to 1863.

In 2002, as the result of provincially-mandated municipal mergers, the 23 existing suburban fire services were merged with that of the City of Montreal to form the SIM, which now serves over 1.8 million people.

Chiefs during a fire

List of predecessor departments

• Anjou Fire Department
• Baie d'Urfé Volunteer Fire Department
• Cote Saint Luc Fire Department
• Dollard-des-Ormeaux Fire Department - EMS
• Dorval Fire Department
• Hampstead Fire Department
• LaSalle Fire Department
• Lachine Fire Department
• Montreal East Fire Department
• Montreal North Fire Department
• Montreal West Fire Department - EMS
• Outremont Fire Department - EMS
• Pointe Claire-Beaconsfield-Kirkland Fire Department - EMS
• Roxboro Volunteer Fire Brigade
• Saint-Laurent Fire Department - EMS
• Saint-Leonard Fire Department
• Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Fire Department
• Sainte-Genevieve Fire Department
• Senneville Fire Department
• Pierrefonds-Ile Bizard Fire Department (Service de la prévention des incendies Pierrefonds-Ile Bizard)
• City of Montreal Fire Department (Service de la prévention des incendies Montreal)
• Town of Mount Royal Fire Department
• Verdun Fire Department
• Westmount Fire Department - EMS

Note: EMS means department responded to calls for emergency medical service

The SIM inherited all the vehicles of the fire departments prior to amalgamation. Most have been replaced by new apparatus in subsequent years.

Fire scene in Rosemont

Operations

The SIM comprises the following operating divisions:

Centre opérationnel Nord (based at Station 35)

• Region 1 - Stations 51, 56, 57, 58, 61
• Region 2 - Stations 52, 53, 54, 55
• Region 3 - Stations 62, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74
• Region 4 - Stations 9, 21, 22, 31, 37, 41
• Region 5 - Stations 17, 18, 35, 42, 43, 49
• Region 6 - Stations 8, 14, 28, 38, 44

A Spartan Gladiator pumper

Centre opérationnel Sud (based at Station 76)

• Region 7 - Stations 64, 65, 77, 78
• Region 8 - Stations 3, 15, 23, 33, 66, 67
• Region 9 - Stations 4, 27, 34, 46, 75, 76
• Region 10 - Stations 2, 5, 10, 19, 20, 25
• Region 11 - Stations 16, 26, 29, 30, 47, 50
• Region 12 - Stations 13, 39, 40, 45, 48

There are 65 fire stations across Montreal, staffed by 2700 employees (2300 fire fighters and 400 support staff).

Two stations are in the planning stage, 32 to be built in Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles and 59, to be built in Pierrefonds-Roxboro.

Labor Activities

In early and mid 2008, the fire fighters were fighting for higher wages and opted to re-badge the city's fire trucks with Toronto FD logos and banners as a "pressure tactic". Select trucks had banners with "City of Toronto" added to the front fender. Toronto FD logos (with centre of logo with a Montreal skyline) were added to the doors of fire trucks. Firefighters wore Toronto FD t-shirts at the stations across the city. Neither the city nor Toronto Fire Services approved of their tactics.

External links

• Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (French)
• Structure and Manpower (French)