Who are the Firefighters of the Springfield Fire and Rescue Service? How many Emergency calls does the fire service respond to annually?
What services does the fire department provide? The Fire and Rescue Service is mandated under municipal by law to provide essential services to protect the community from the ravages of fire or other natural disasters. Operational responses include the suppression of structural, wildland, vehicle and other types of fires. The fire service responses to all monitored fire alarm signals within our municipality as well as Carbon Monoxide alarms. Rescue services provided are a Fire Based Emergency Medical Responder Program, Vehicle, Farm, Industial and Commercial Extrication/Rescues, Trench Rescues, Aircraft Crashes, Hazardous Material Responses, Water Rescue and Bomb Threats. The fire service has entered into agreements with the Province of Manitoba and the R.M. of Reynolds to provide these services to these area at no cost to our municipal rate payer. In fact, both these agreements are based on a healthy retainer fee paid to the municipality including a formula for recovering costs for ma
