City of Tulare Fire Department

The City of Tulare Fire Department 2024 Annual Report is here!! The department is proud to showcase our success in 2024 along with a few goals we didn’t complete. But this give us road map to continue reaching for those goals. TFD was very fortunate to received two Federal grants and one State level grant. Great wins for our community and team. https://lnkd.in/gDHaBMHs

Firefighter LUCAS is a great addition to our team at the City of Tulare. The assistance provided by Firefighter LUCAS will greatly assist in savings lives in our community. Thank you to our City Council and Marc Mondell, ICMA-CM, AICP for the ability to make this critical live savings equipment purchase. https://lnkd.in/gxr55b9f

Job Posting Alert! Firefighter/Paramedic! Position Description RECRUITMENT OVERVIEW Thank you for your interest in the position of Firefighter with Tulare Fire Department. We look forward to the opportunity to consider you as an applicant. The City of Tulare is a vibrant and steadily growing community with a population of 70,693 located in the heart of California's Central Valley. The organization, staffed with 401 full-time employees, enjoys a culture of fiscal conservatism, collaboration, teamwork and dedication to public service and our community. Tulare Fire Department is the recipient of a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grant (SAFER) thru FEMA. The SAFER grant will provide funding for 12 new positions for a guaranteed period of three years. The positions will be staffed at either the Firefighter or Firefighter/Paramedic level. Firefighter’s work a 24-day work period based on a 48/96 work schedule which begins with the start of the A shift 48/96 schedule. The 56-hour (average) workweek schedule consists of two consecutive 24-hour work shifts (48 consecutive duty hours) followed by four consecutive calendar days off (96 consecutive hours off duty). To be considered for a position with our department, submit an online application, with detailed information in each section: Education, Work Experience, Certificates and Licenses, and Skills. In addition, applicants are required to respond to the supplemental questions associated with the application. Resumes may be attached but will not be accepted in lieu of a complete, detailed application or the required licenses and certificates. RECRUITMENT TIMELINE: Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 23rd at 11:59 p.m. Written Exam Date: Saturday, November 2nd Interview Panel Dates: Thursday, November 14th & Friday, November 15th Chief’s Interview Dates: Thursday, November 21st & Friday, November 22nd For more information, check out our City of Tulare website, https://lnkd.in/gJV_9YX7 We also have a Firefighter Job posting as well.

Last night the City of Tulare Council voted 5-0 to accept the U.S. Department of Homeland Security FEMA Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants (SAFER) in the amount of $4.658.469 to provide 3 years of federal funding for all salary and benefits to hire 12 new firefighters. First, we want to thank the City Council, Marc Mondell, ICMA-CM, AICP, and other city leaders for their support down this path. We truly appreciate the willingness and drive to increase public safety for our great city. These 12 new positions will allow the department to fill open seats on fire apparatus while provide more knowledge, skills, and abilities during calls for service and emergency response. It will greatly reduce the risk to firefighters and the community. It also support the city and department with the alignment towards the National Fire Protection Association 1710: Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments, which is a national consensus standard that many cities and fire departments strive to meet for fire and life safety matters. It’s a great win for the City of Tulare and our residents! We want to that give another massive thank you to City Council and Leadership for their willingness to pursue these grants in the interested of public and firefighter safety. Their support is critically important to the mission of city ” To promote a quality of life making Tulare the most desirable community in which to live, learn, play, work, worship and prosper” and the fire department “To provide exceptional customer service through Fire Rescue efforts while ensuring Public Safety.”

Today the department placed into service the City of Tulare new ladder truck. We conduct a small traditional push-in ceremony with department members and our chaplain. This 2024 Pierce, 107’ ladder with a 1,500 gallon per minute pump will increase the capability of the department to better serve the needs of the city and its citizens now and into the future. We would like to thank the City for its use of the American Resuce Plan 2021 funding for this new apparatus. We greatly appreciate it. A community wide event, ribbon cutting, and traditional push-in ceremony involving community members will happen in the very near future.

Last month the City of Tulare and Fire Department was awarded a U.S. Department of Homeland Security FEMA Fire Prevention & Safety grant in the amount of $163,714 to purchase 3,000 smoke and 3,000 combination smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to assist with our campaign of “Making Homes Fire Safe Again”. Our goal is to help homeowners with children, elderly, or those that are socialeconomical challenge increase their safety. We want to ensure they have early warning device in their homes to prevent death and injuries of residents. It’s a great win for the City of Tulare and the residents.

The partnership with City of Tulare Police Deparment is always a win! The team work helped reduce these illegal and dangerous fire in our community. https://lnkd.in/gwPxpthV

The wait is finally over. Another vital piece of equipment to help us serve the community of Tulare better. https://lnkd.in/dXyeDC-D

Our Public Works Team is awesome. Full of rockstar employees keeping the city systems working correctly. Thank them for the hard work!!

What a great community support event with our partner Nicholas Nave and FAE Mary Bradford. They are rockstars and have a great focus on children safety. Solid team work!!💪🏼💪🏼🔥🔥