Volunteer Summary
The Kiowa Fire District is considered a “Combination Department” as it is staffed with both career and volunteer personnel. Volunteers make up the majority of district staffing and were responsible for providing 23,237 hours of service to our community in 2019 alone. These hours saved the district $557,000. These volunteers answered 407 calls for service in 2019 broken down as follows:
- 186 Medical Calls resulting in 120 ambulance transports
- 24 Citizen Assists
- 33 Motor Vehicle Accidents
- 15 Brush Fires
- 102 Misc. Assists
- 12 Smoke Investigations
- 16 Fire Alarms
- 7 Structure Fires
- 7 Police Assists
- 4 Vehicle Fires
Kiowa Fire District volunteers participated in 2400 hours of training. Subjects include both fire and medical training including vehicle fires, foam evolutions, wildfire, water supply, CPR, fire streams and hazardous materials. We also held a Firefighter Academy for new firefighters seeking their State of Colorado fire certification.