The Halton Hills Fire and Emergency Services provides essential information about the town's fire safety initiatives, emergency response protocols, and public education programs. It highlights the department's commitment to protecting the community through prevention, enforcement, and rapid response, while also encouraging residents to play an active role in ensuring safety.
Explore resources, programs, and tips designed to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Commissioner and Fire Chief Message
Welcome to our website. The most important defence in preventing fires is fire safety education. I sincerely hope your visit is informative and more importantly educational with respect to fire safety. Your knowledge of fire safety information will help prevent future fires and keep you, your family and our community safe from the ravages of fire.
In 1997 the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, shifted the focus of the fire service to place a priority on fire prevention and public education. It is now mandatory that each fire department provide fire prevention and public education activities. While as a service we will continue to have manpower available to extinguish a fire, our primary focus is now prevention and public education.
Inspection staff are involved with pro-active inspections of our many community occupancies to ensure that these occupancies are safe from fire hazards. Other prevention and public education activities are also part of their responsibilities. Our Public Education Division is responsible for many fire safety education programs for all ages of our community. I am particularly proud of our Risk Watch program for elementary school aged children and our Community Safety Guide. Whether it is fire safety for children or fire safety for seniors our Public Education Division have a training program or a pamphlet for you.
Please browse our website and check out the various programs and fire safety information we have to offer. Any comments or ideas for our website are appreciated and can be forwarded to my attention.
Thank you for visiting our website.
Commissioner and Fire Chief
Jon Rehill
Fire Stations
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Fire Chief's Message |
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On behalf of the men and women of Halton Hills Fire Department who proudly serve our community, welcome to our HHFD home page. We hope that you find the links to programs, services and opportunities helpful. Emergencies can strike anytime and anywhere. While you can depend on our team of dedicated professional career and part time firefighters to respond quickly to mitigate the impacts of the emergency, you too have a role to play in ensuring the well-being of you and your loved ones. HHFD along with many Ontario fire services, adopted three lines of defence that are essential to protecting lives and property: Public Fire Safety Education, Fire Safety Standards/Enforcement and Emergency Response. Public Fire Safety Education includes; programs that provide residents of all demographics with information on how to protect you, your home, family, co-workers and our community on a day-to-day basis. Risk Watch, Learn Not to Burn, Older and Wiser, and TAPP-C are some of the internationally recognized targeted programs delivered by our prevention staff. Additional life safety programs provide instruction in the use of portable fire extinguishers, design and maintenance of emergency plans, operation of fire safety and suppression systems as well as a host of other safety topics. Fire Safety Standards/Enforcement includes; fire safety inspections, Fire Code enforcement, new building plans examination and emergency planning. Emergency Response includes; fire suppression, extrication and other operations such as water/ice rescue, emergency medical response, hazardous materials operations and emergency incident management. Our fire fighters maintain a broad range of skills that equip us to respond to any and all hazards in our community, whether natural or human caused. Our firefighters take the HHFD Mission; “to provide fire protection and prevention services to protect our community and enhance life safety” seriously. Constant training ensures they are ready to face the hazards associated with the next emergency. They serve with honour, compassion and integrity, often making personal sacrifices for the protection and good of our community. While always at the ready to respond to emergencies, many take leadership roles in delivering prevention, public education and in-service training programs while others carry out inspections and apparatus/equipment maintenance. As your Fire Chief, I couldn't be prouder of our HHFD team and hope that you too, share that same sense of pride. Working together, working for you, we can all fulfill our role in keeping our community safe. If you would like further information or non-emergency assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us at 905-877-1133. |
Emergency Preparedness for Residents |
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Everyone has a role to play in an emergency. Emergency Preparedness Week is an opportunity for you to learn and take action to ensure you are prepared. Visit our Emergency Preparedness webpage to learn more. |