Fire Department       

Department Overview

To provide the City of Binghamton and its citizens with Firefighter/EMT's and Firefighter/Paramedics trained to the highest and most progressive level of skill, to protect and serve our community with the utmost professionalism.

The department is comprised of a staff of 132 paid uniform fire-fighters and three civilian employees. 

The department operates out of six stations, a training center and repair facility.

Emergency Medical System

• First response from the 6 fire stations.
• Ambulance transport at the ALS/Paramedic level.
• Training level - paramedic and EMT-D

Special Operations

All manners of land and aquatic rescue are used such as:

• High-angle rope rescue
• Confined-space rescue
• Building collapse
• Vehicle extrication
• Water rescue
• Ice rescue
• HAZ-MAT full service response

Fire Suppression

Binghamton Fire Bureau stations are manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  It has earned a reputation as one of the most progressive fire departments in New York state through:

• Aggressive interior search/rescue and fire attack
• Standard procedures for organizing firefighting operations
• Acquisition of state-of-the-art firefighting equipment and techniques
• An Emergency Medical Services (EMS) program started in 1981 now at transporting ALS/Paramedic level

Fire Prevention

• Public education.
• Fire investigation to determine cause and origin.
• Computerization of gathered information and fire department business.
• Juvenile Involved Fire-Play Intervention and Education (JIFIE) program.
• Code compliance
• Elimination of unnecessary response.

Binghamton Fire Fallen Heroes

19 City of Binghamton firefighters have lost their lives in the line of duty:

• Firefighter Gerald F. Mullins, January 8, 1994
• Chief Donald E. Faughnan, May 1, 1987
• Firefighter Francis E. Furch, December 31, 1977
• Captain Donald W. McGeever, September 29, 1975
• Chief John F. Cox, September 29, 1975
• Firefighter John C. Russell, September 29, 1975
• Lieutenant Clyde E. Johns, October 24, 1970
• Captain Lawrence E. O'Hara, January 13, 1967
• Training Instructor James M. Sullivan, November 10, 1962
• Firefighter Jerome P. Ryan, September 3, 1951
• Firefighter Arnold B. Shepard, February 5, 1951
• Chief Arthur J. Dillon, March 7,1946
• Firefighter James W. McCarthy, October 8, 1940
• Firefighter William S. Kennedy, April 29, 1929
• Chief Charles VanCleve, January 16, 1929
• Firefighter William T. Moran, September 17, 1928
• Firefighter H. Clair Brainard, March 25, 1925
• Firefighter Joseph E. Muggleton, June 14, 1914
• Captain Walter Howell, March 5, 1914
• Firefighter Francis J Haher, September 26, 1898