Charlotte Fire Department

Charlotte Fire Department

Operational area
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
City	Charlotte
Agency overview
Established	1875 (1875)
Annual calls	~ 130,000 (2019)
Employees	1,180 (2015)
Annual budget	$110,158,486 (2015)
Staffing	Career
Fire chief	Reginald Johnson
IAFF	660
Facilities and equipment
Battalions	8
Stations	43
Engines	43
Trucks	16
Rescues	2
Tenders	6
HAZMAT	4
USAR	3
Airport crash	10
Wildland	5
Fireboats	2
Rescue boats	4
Website
Official website
IAFF website

The Charlotte Fire Department provides fire suppression, emergency medical services, technical rescue services, hazardous materials mitigation, disaster response, code enforcement, fire investigations, and public education for the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. The department is responsible for an area of approximately 300 square miles (780 km²) with a population of over 885,000. The Charlotte Fire Department was officially formed in 1875, although fire services existed in the area for decades before that.

Stations and apparatus

Engine 37 is a 2005 Spartan/Smeal Pumper.

Ladder 18 is located in west Charlotte. The Wild Wild West

Blaze 1 has an extending stick with a point nozzle called the snozzle.

As of February 2021 this is the current list of stations and apparatus for the department:

Fire Station Number	Neighborhood	Engine Company	Ladder Company	Rescue Company	Special Unit	Battalion Chief Unit
1	First Ward (Uptown)	Engine 1	Ladder 1		Vent 1	Battalion Chief 1
2	South End	Engine 2	Ladder 2
3	Rama	Engine 3	Ladder 3
4	Fourth Ward (Uptown)	Engine 4	Ladder 4
5	Wesley Heights	Engine 5			Brush 5
6	Myers Park	Engine 6
7	NoDa	Engine 7
8	Plaza Midwood	Engine 8
9	Providence Township	Engine 9			Tanker 9
10	Camp Greene	Engine 10		Rescue 10	Dive 10	Battalion Chief 3
11	Graham Heights	Engine 11		Rescue 11	Dive 11
12	Madison Park	Engine 12
13	South Hoskins	Engine 13	Ladder 13		Hazmat 1, Hazmat 2
14	Cotswold	Engine 14
15	Shamrock	Engine 15
16	South Park	Engine 16	Ladder 16
17	Charlotte Douglas International Airport East	Engine 17			ARFF Units	Battalion Chief 8
18	Washington Heights	Engine 18	Ladder 18
19	Landsdowne	Engine 19
20	Starmount	Engine 20			Brush 20	Battalion Chief 5
21	Paw Creek	Engine 21			Tanker 21
22	Derita	Engine 22			Safety 1
23	Hickory Grove	Engine 23	Ladder 23
24	Carmel Village	Engine 24	Ladder 24
25	Oakdale	Engine 25			Foam 1	Battalion Chief 6
26	Ayrsley	Engine 26	Ladder 26
27	University City	Engine 27	Ladder 27			Battalion Chief 2
28	Northlake	Engine 28	Ladder 28
29	Idlewild South	Engine 29			Brush 29
30	Whippoorwill Lake	Engine 30
31	Highland Creek	Engine 31	Ladder 31		Brush 31
32	Ballantyne	Engine 32	Ladder 32		Hazmat 3
33	Shuffletown	Engine 33	Ladder 33		Brush 33, Deluge 33
34	Newell	Engine 34			Decon 1, Hazmat 5
35	Withrow Downs	Engine 35			Tanker 35
36	Mallard Creek	Engine 36			MOC 1
37	Steele Creek	Engine 37			Tanker 37
38	Withers Cove	Engine 38			Dive 38, Fire Boat 38
39	The Arboretum	Engine 39				Battalion Chief 7
40	Wilgrove	Engine 40	Ladder 40		Tanker 40
41	Charlotte Douglas International Airport West				ARFF Units
42	Eastland	Engine 42, Engine 65				Battalion Chief 4
43	Clanton Park	Engine 43			USAR 1, USAR 2

See also

• Fire Station No. 2 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex
• Palmer Fire School