Buckeye Fire Department was established as a volunteer department by an Ordinance of the Town Council in the early 1940's. As the City of Buckeye has grown, so has the Buckeye Fire Department. BFD was established as a full-time paid department in 1999. Over the past 70 years, the department has evolved into a highly professional career service with a highly active reserve component to better serve
the community of Buckeye. The Buckeye Fire Department provides fire protection and advanced life support care for the Town of Buckeye. The Fire Department is a full time (career) organization serving the community from six fire stations with approximately 87 staff positions. Currently, the department has six Class A pumpers, two 100 foot aerial trucks, a technical rescue support vehicle, two brush trucks, two command vehicles and six staff vehicles. All line staff are certified firefighters and approximately 50% are Paramedics. The Fire Department is a member of the nationally recognized valley-wide automatic aid consortium in which all participants are dispatched via computer through the use of an automatic vehicle locator system regardless of the jurisdiction. This insures the closest appropriate unit and resources will respond and automatically access all of the fire resources of the greater Phoenix area.
