Serving the City of Oak Harbor.
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The VISION of your Oak Harbor Fire Department is:
to continue to be recognized as consistently providing quality services in an efficient manner to our growing community.
Our MISSION STATEMENT is:
to provide professional and cost effective services by maintaining highly trained and highly motivated career and paid-on-call staff, combined with sufficient apparatus, equipment and facilities.
Our OBJECTIVES are:
to respond to fire, rescue, medical and hazardous incidents on land or water;
to conduct fire and life safety inspections of existing businesses, multi-family dwellings, and public assembly facilities;
to review plans and conduct on-site inspections of new developments and buildings to ensure fire and life safety code compliance;
to provide public education in the areas of fire prevention, CPR, first aid, life safety, accident prevention, and disaster planning preparedness;
to provide disaster equipment such as generators, lighting, mobile command units, and multiple casualty units during natural and manmade disasters;
to provide training and technical support to fire and city personnel;
to provide classroom facilities and assist with the instruction of the Juvenile Fire-Setter Intervention Program;
to provide career opportunities with a Firefighter Pilot Program for high school students;
to provide training facilities and assist at the Island County Recruit Academy;
to conduct investigations of all fires to determine their cause and origin;
to maintain the mutual aid agreement with all emergency service providers on Whidbey Island;
to maintain and operate an Emergency Operations Center for the city;
to conduct and participate in county-wide training at the department’s training facility;
to provide a back-up facility for I-COM, Island County Emergency Dispatch Center, and
to provide meeting facilities for non-profit organizations.
Oak Harbor Fire Department creates a healthy community for our residents and visitors by responding to emergency calls within the City of Oak Harbor.
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