Glendale Fire Department provides a variety of emergency services, including fire suppression, emergency medical and hazardous materials and specialized rescue response. The department comprises more than five paramedic engine companies, ladder trucks, rapid response vehicles, brush trucks, command response vehicles, medic units, special operations safety officer, command responder, alternative...
Our History
Our fire department began in 1912. It wasn’t until the 1950s that the city hired its first fulltime paid fire chief. During the next decade in the 1960s, Glendale was able to show the need to employ its first fulltime paid firefighters.
1950s… First fulltime paid fire chief
1960s… First fulltime paid firefighters
1970s… Firefighters become paramedics
1980s… Firefighters become...