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 19,000 hours of service to our community in 2016 alone. These volunteers answered 364 calls for service in 2016 broken down as follows:
- 189 Medical Calls resulting in 142 ambulance transports
- 38 Citizen Assists
- 14 Smoke Investigations
- 29 Auto Accidents
- 25 “Other”
- 38 Wildfires
- 19 Fire Alarms
- 7 Structure Fires
- 11 Police Assists
Kiowa Fire District volunteers participated in 1,813 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.
