Albuquerque Fire Rescue | |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | Albuquerque |
Reference1: | [1] |
Established: | 1900 |
Annual Calls: | 90,208 |
Annual Budget: | $99 million |
Employees: | 773 |
Staffing: | Career |
Chief: | Gene Gallegos (interim)[2] |
Iaff: | 244 |
Reference2: | [3] |
Battalions: | 4 |
Stations: | 22 |
Engines: | 22 frontline, 8 reserve |
Ladders: | 5 frontline, 2 reserve |
Platforms: | 2 |
Rescues: | 1 |
Ambulances: | 20 frontline, 7 reserve |
Hazmat: | 2 |
Firstresponderblsorals: | ALS |
Wildland: | 1 Type 1, 1 Type 3, 5 Type 6 |
Albuquerque Fire Rescue (AFR) is the municipal fire department serving Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It is the largest fire department in New Mexico[4] with 22 fire stations and 729 paid firefighters as of 2020.[1] In 2019, AFR ranked as the 25th-busiest fire department in the United States, fielding 105,526 calls for emergency services,[5] and the department's Engine 5 was the nation's 12th-busiest fire engine with 5,532 runs.
AFR provides both fire and emergency medical services,[6] including two hazardous materials squads and one heavy technical rescue squad with vehicle extrication, confined space, rope, structural collapse, trench collapse, swift water, and elevator rescue capabilities.[3]
The Albuquerque Fire Department was originally established in 1900, replacing an earlier volunteer fire department.[7] It was renamed Albuquerque Fire Rescue in 2018 in order to acknowledge the wider scope of duties handled by the department.[8]
AFR has fielded a ambulance that is capable of initiating pre-hospital Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.[9]