Hewitt Fire Department

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‘The Hewitt Fire Depart­ment is com­bi­na­tion with career and vol­un­teer fire­fight­ers. The depart­ment pro­vides resources for respond­ing to emer­gency inci­dents within the ser­vice area with a goal to save lives, min­i­mize prop­erty dam­age and pro­vide mutual aid assis­tance to other agen­cies. The Fire Depart­ment on aver­age responds to approx­i­mately 450 to 550 alarms per year, includ­ing struc­tural, vehi­cle, grass/brush and other fires, entrap­ment res­cues, emer­gency med­ical, first respon­der haz-mat inci­dents, gen­eral pub­lic ser­vices and assist emer­gency man­age­ment. Fire Pre­ven­tion Edu­ca­tion Pro­grams to schools and the gen­eral pub­lic are also provided.

Fire Depart­ment Staffing
14 career fire­fight­ers • 5 vol­un­teers
Fire Chief • Cap­tain • 3 Lieutenants

Fire­fighter Cer­ti­fi­ca­tions
• Texas Com­mis­sion on Fire Pro­tec­tion for struc­tural fire­fight­ing.
• Texas Depart­ment of State Health Ser­vices EMT.

The depart­ment pro­vides train­ing to all fire­fight­ers to be con­sis­tent with Texas Com­mis­sion on Fire Pro­tec­tion, State Fireman’s and Fire Mar­shals Asso­ci­a­tion and Texas Depart­ment of State Health Ser­vices. Fire­fight­ers also are pro­vided with con­tin­u­ous edu­ca­tion for pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment. The depart­ment prides itself in both safety and being at the fore­front of fire­fight­ing technology.

The Fire Depart­ment oper­ates out of two fire sta­tions. Sta­tion #1 oper­ates 24 hours seven days. Sta­tion #2 is not manned but is acti­vated for addi­tional equip­ment deploy­ment at any time by an Inci­dent Commander.

Emer­gency Appa­ra­tus
1250 GPM Pumper / 50’ Tele­boom com­bi­na­tion
Two 1250 GPM Pumpers
1000 GPM Pumper
Two Grass / Brush Trucks
Medium Duty Res­cue Unit
Sup­port Unit (addi­tional equip­ment)
Squad unit (med­ical)
Two util­ity trucks (pick-ups)
Com­mand Unit (Chiefs vehicle)

• The fire department’s ser­vice area is 6.86 square miles with a pop­u­la­tion of 13,000.
• Total ser­vice area cov­er­age is 13 square miles includ­ing three miles of inter­state high­way.
• The City of Hewitt has an ISO rat­ing of 6.