Aspen Fire Protection District and Aspen Fire Department
The Aspen Fire Protection District serves 87 square miles in Pitkin County. It encompasses the Town of Aspen, and several unincorporated areas such as Woody Creek, Bruch Creek and Starwood. The Aspen Fire District is staffed by a combination of career and volunteer members who are state certified to handle diverse emergency calls. The district is comprised of geographically different areas ranging from downtown Aspen to sparse residential and mountainous terrain with significant wildland-urban interface, each having different suppression and rescue requirements. Those requirements are met with a multi-faceted line of apparatus, equipment, and training.
The Aspen Fire Protection District exists to ensure a safe community for our citizens to live and work, and for our guests to visit. We reduce human loss and suffering caused by sudden disaster.
The Aspen Fire Protection District provides emergency and non-emergency services throughout Aspen, Colorado and the surrounding areas. This includes 24-hour emergency response to a wide variety of critical situations, including structural, wildland, and urban interface fires, explosions, hazardous materials incidents, medical emergencies, accidents, auto extrication, swiftwater, ice, low-angle rope, trench, confined space rescue, and miscellaneous public assistance requests. In addition, the fire department has the capability to respond to emergency medical needs, including basic life support and ambulance transport.
The department also operates active fire prevention and emergency preparedness programs which provides for fire inspections, hazardous process permitting, burn permits, fire code enforcement, community education, and business emergency planning in accordance with Colorado laws. Each year the Aspen Fire Protection District spends over 4,000 hours completing hands-on training activities, which build important practical skills and provide each firefighter with the abilities needed to quickly and correctly respond to all types of emergency situations.
