Administration

Message from the Fire Chief

We are fortunate to live in a vibrant city that continues to develop and lead. Our ability to meet city expectations for a quick response while providing top notch services continues to be a challenge. However, your Irving Fire Department (IFD) is fortunate to be surrounded with supportive residents, a progressive thinking city council and an attentive management staff to help us with this ongoing-duty. IFD continues to look for innovative solutions to make our services more safe, effective and efficient to our customers. For example, IFD helped the City of Irving obtain an Insurance Services Office public protection rating of 1 this past year and implemented the first of its kind traffic management apparatus for protection of other more expensive front-line apparatus and responders on-scene at accidents.

FY 2017-18 IFD ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Achieved ISO-1 designation for the City of Irving
• $323,069,080 Property Saved from Fire Loss
• Through volunteer efforts, raised over $129,000 for various organizations including the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Parkland Foundation Burn Camp, Irving Healthcare Foundation, Blue Christmas and the Nick Gonzales Foundation for Brain Tumor Research
• IFD medics and ASAP provided medical support for the Wounded Warrior 100k Bike Ride
• Over 6,000 stuffed back packs collected and distributed through Supplies for Success
• Placed new Engine 1, Engine 11, Medic 2 and several Light Duty Vehicles in service
• Through community outreach conducted two Citizens Fire Academy Classes and attended nearly 40 block parties for National Night Out
• Over 21,000 residents reached through Fire Public Education
• 39 detectors installed through the Irving Fire Department Smoke Detector program; no detectors installed through the Red Cross Smoke Detector Program due to Hurricane Relief efforts
  
  
  

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