Eastside Fire and Rescue
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Eastside Fire & Rescue is an emergency services provider located in King County
, in the State of Washington, United States
. Eastside Fire & Rescue provides fire suppression
, fire prevention
, and emergency medical services
(EMS) as well as first response for all hazards in the eastern portion of King County generally following the Interstate 90
corridor east of Bellevue
. Eastside Fire is an active participant in regional mutual aid
agreements with other agencies in King County.
, Issaquah
, North Bend
, and Sammamish
. King County Fire District 10 and King County Fire District 38 are also participating agencies. The consolidation was prompted by the municipalities' desire to provide better fire protection and emergency medical services to the general public in a cost-effective manner. Some agencies relied, at least partly, on volunteer firefighters. These agencies experienced a decline in the number of experienced volunteer firefighter
s available at all times of the day. They also experienced difficulty recruiting and training new qualified volunteers.
and Kittitas County, on the south by ..., on the west by the cities of Renton
, Newcastle
, Bellevue
, and Redmond
, and on the North by ... King County Fire District # (serving ).
and emergency medical services
, Eastside Fire & Rescue provides vehicle extrication
and hazardous materials emergency response
, limited water rescue
, general search and rescue
, and fire safety
/fire prevention
education. Eastside Fire and Rescue contracts with the Bellevue Fire Department
for Medic One
paramedic
service to handle medical emergencies requiring Advanced life support
. NORCOMM answers emergency calls and dispatches Eastside Fire & Rescue units from a regional 911
call center
in Bellevue. Eastside Fire provides services with a fleet of vehicles that includes:
s and one headquarters.
† Medic 3 and Medic 14 are operated by the Bellevue Fire Department under contract with Eastisde Fire & Rescue.
served by both career and volunteer members. The agency has a total of 240 personnel. Eastside Fire employs six full-time career senior officers consisting of the Fire Chief
, three Deputy Chiefs, and two Battalion Chiefs. The agency employs 117 career firefighters and 89 volunteer firefighters. Career Firefighters can serve as Captains
, Lieutenants, or Firefighter. Some volunteers may serve as a Lead Firefighter, ranking below a Lieutenant and above a firefighter. The agency employs 15 administrative support staff, three mechanics, four staff members in Fire Prevention, one staff member in Public Education, and five volunteer chaplains.
King County, Washington
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population in the 2010 census was 1,931,249. King is the most populous county in Washington, and the 14th most populous in the United States....
, in the State of Washington, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Eastside Fire & Rescue provides fire suppression
Fire fighting
Firefighting is the act of extinguishing fires. A firefighter fights fires to prevent loss of life, and/or destruction of property and the environment...
, fire prevention
Fire prevention
Fire Prevention is a function of many fire departments. The goal of fire prevention is to educate the public to take precautions to prevent fires, and be educated about surviving them. It is a proactive method of reducing emergencies and the damage caused by them. Many fire departments have a Fire...
, and emergency medical services
Emergency medical services
Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...
(EMS) as well as first response for all hazards in the eastern portion of King County generally following the Interstate 90
Interstate 90 in Washington
Interstate 90 , a transcontinental Interstate Highway from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts, crosses the state of Washington before crossing the Idaho state line between Spokane and Post Falls...
corridor east of Bellevue
Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
. Eastside Fire is an active participant in regional mutual aid
Mutual aid (emergency services)
In emergency services, mutual aid is an agreement among emergency responders to lend assistance across jurisdictional boundaries. This may occur due to an emergency response that exceeds local resources, such as a disaster or a multiple-alarm fire. Mutual aid may be ad hoc, requested only when...
agreements with other agencies in King County.
Origin
Eastside Fire and Rescue was formed in 1999 as a joint fire department by three cities and two Fire Protection Districts. These municipalities use an Interlocal Agreement to establish how Eastside Fire & Rescue operates. Participating cities are CarnationCarnation, Washington
Carnation is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,786 at the 2010 census.-History:Settled in 1865, Carnation was officially incorporated on December 30, 1912, as Tolt. The name was changed to Carnation in 1917, back to Tolt on May 3, 1928, and finally back to...
, Issaquah
Issaquah, Washington
Issaquah is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 30,434 at the 2010 census.Based on per capita income, Issaquah ranks 25th of 522 areas in the State of Washington to be ranked....
, North Bend
North Bend, Washington
North Bend is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The town was made famous by David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks Since the Weyerhaeuser sawmill closed, North Bend has become an upscale bedroom community for the Eastside of Seattle, Washington, with property values more than...
, and Sammamish
Sammamish, Washington
-Surrounding cities and communities:-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 34,104 people, 11,131 households, and 9,650 families residing in the city. In 2007, the population is expected to pass 40,000....
. King County Fire District 10 and King County Fire District 38 are also participating agencies. The consolidation was prompted by the municipalities' desire to provide better fire protection and emergency medical services to the general public in a cost-effective manner. Some agencies relied, at least partly, on volunteer firefighters. These agencies experienced a decline in the number of experienced volunteer firefighter
Firefighter
Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...
s available at all times of the day. They also experienced difficulty recruiting and training new qualified volunteers.
Service Territory
The Eastside Fire & Rescue service area covers a 191 square miles (494.7 km²) footprint occupied by a population of 113,801. The district is located in the east portion King County, bordered on the east by Snoqualmie PassSnoqualmie Pass
Snoqualmie Pass is a mountain pass that carries Interstate 90 through the Cascade Range in the U.S. State of Washington. The elevation of the pass summit is , and is on the county line between Kittitas County and King County...
and Kittitas County, on the south by ..., on the west by the cities of Renton
Renton, Washington
Renton is an Eastside edge city in King County, Washington, United States. Situated 11 miles southeast of Seattle, Washington, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington. Founded in the 1860s, Renton became a supply town for the Newcastle coal fields...
, Newcastle
Newcastle, Washington
Newcastle is an Eastside city in King County, Washington, United States. Its population was 10,380 at the 2010 census.Although Newcastle was not incorporated until 1994, it has been an important settlement and town since the late 19th century and played a major role in the development of Seattle...
, Bellevue
Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
, and Redmond
Redmond, Washington
Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....
, and on the North by ... King County Fire District # (serving ).
Services
In addition to essential structural and wildland fire suppressionWildland fire suppression
Wildfire suppression refers to the firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires. Firefighting efforts in wildland areas requires different techniques, equipment, and training from the more familiar structure fire fighting found in populated areas...
and emergency medical services
Emergency medical services
Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...
, Eastside Fire & Rescue provides vehicle extrication
Vehicle extrication
Vehicle extrication is the process of removing the vehicle from around a person that has been involved in a motor vehicle accident, when conventional means of exit are impossible or unadvisable. A delicate approach is needed to minimize injury to the victim during the extrication...
and hazardous materials emergency response
Dangerous goods
Dangerous goods are solids, liquids, or gases that can harm people, other living organisms, property, or the environment. They are often subject to chemical regulations. "HazMat teams" are personnel specially trained to handle dangerous goods...
, limited water rescue
Surface water rescue
Surface Water Rescue is defined as the rescue of a patient who is afloat on the surface of a body of water.Within Canada, any significant sized body of water, whether in mid-summer or winter, is considered cold water...
, general search and rescue
Search and rescue
Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...
, and fire safety
Fire safety
Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death, injury, or property damage, alert those in a structure to the presence of a fire in the event one occurs, better enable those threatened by a fire to survive, or to reduce the...
/fire prevention
Fire prevention
Fire Prevention is a function of many fire departments. The goal of fire prevention is to educate the public to take precautions to prevent fires, and be educated about surviving them. It is a proactive method of reducing emergencies and the damage caused by them. Many fire departments have a Fire...
education. Eastside Fire and Rescue contracts with the Bellevue Fire Department
Bellevue Fire Department
The Bellevue Fire Department serves almost 120,000 Bellevue residents. It has 9 stations for its 237 employees....
for Medic One
Medic One
The Seattle & King County Emergency Medical Services System is a fire-based two-tier response system providing prehospital basic and advanced life support services....
paramedic
Paramedic
A paramedic is a healthcare professional that works in emergency medical situations. Paramedics provide advanced levels of care for medical emergencies and trauma. The majority of paramedics are based in the field in ambulances, emergency response vehicles, or in specialist mobile units such as...
service to handle medical emergencies requiring Advanced life support
Advanced Life Support
Advanced Life Support is a set of life-saving protocols and skills that extend Basic Life Support to further support the circulation and provide an open airway and adequate ventilation .-Components of ALS:These include:...
. NORCOMM answers emergency calls and dispatches Eastside Fire & Rescue units from a regional 911
9-1-1
9-1-1 is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan .It is one of eight N11 codes.The use of this number is for emergency circumstances only, and to use it for any other purpose can be a crime.-History:In the earliest days of telephone technology, prior to the...
call center
Public-safety answering point
A Public Safety Answering Point , sometimes called "Public Safety Access Point", is a call center responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for police, firefighting, and ambulance services. Trained telephone operators are also usually responsible for dispatching these...
in Bellevue. Eastside Fire provides services with a fleet of vehicles that includes:
- 15 fire engines
- 5 water tenders
- 5 aerial ladder trucks
- 17 medical aid unitsAmbulanceAn ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient...
- 4 command vehicles (specially equipped SUVs)
- 1 air unit (equipped to refill SCBA tanks and service SCBA gear at a fire scene)
- 1 technical rescue vehicle and trailer
- 1 wildfire truck (owned by the Department of Natural Resources), and
- 1 mobile emergency operations communications van
Facilities
Eastside Fire & Rescue currently provides services from fifteen fire stationFire station
A fire station is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus , personal protective equipment, fire hose, fire extinguishers, and other fire extinguishing equipment...
s and one headquarters.
| Facility | Location | Apparatus | Staff | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Issaquah 175 Newport Way NW Issaquah, WA 98027 |
Reserve (spare) equipment Brush 662 (Wildland) |
Administration Training Maintenance NO firefighters or EMTs Emergency medical technician Emergency Medical Technician or Ambulance Technician are terms used in some countries to denote a healthcare provider of emergency medical services... on duty |
47°32′00"N 122°02′20"W |
| Battalion 1 | ||||
| Station 71 | Downtown Issaquah 190 E Sunset Way Issaquah, WA 98027 |
Engine 71 Aid 71 Tender 71 Battalion 71 |
Career | 47°31′47"N 122°01′55"W |
| Station 72 | Issaquah 1770 NW Maple Street Issaquah, WA 98027 |
Engine 72 Aid 72 |
Career | 47°32′37"N 122°03′49"W |
| Station 74 | Preston 8641 Preston Fall City Rd SE Preston, WA 98050 |
Engine 74 Aid 74 Tender 74 |
Volunteer | 47.523664°N 121.927321°W |
| Station 75 | West Lake Sammamish 4225 180th Ave SE Bellevue, WA 98008 |
Aid 75 | Volunteer | 47°34′09"N 122°06′03"W |
| Station 76 | Tiger Mountain 15132 Tiger Mountain Rd SE Issaquah, WA 98027 |
Engine 76 Aid 76 |
Volunteer | 47°27′57"N 122°59′01"W |
| Battalion 2 | ||||
| Station 73 | Issaquah Highlands 1280 NE Park Drive Issaquah, WA 98027 |
Ladder 73 Ladder 77 (Reserve) Aid 73 Medic 14 † |
Career | 47°32′44"N 122°00′50"W |
| Station 81 | Sammamish 2030 212th Ave SE Sammamish, WA 98975 |
Engine 81 Aid 81 Air Unit 81 |
Career and Volunteer | 47°35′29"N 122°03′25"W |
| Station 82 | Sammamish 1851 - 228th Ave NE Sammamish, WA 98074 |
Engine 82 Aid 82 Engine 82A (Reserve) |
Career and Volunteer | 47°37′35"N 122°02′10"W |
| Station 83 | Pine Lake 3425 Issaquah Pine Lake Rd SE Sammamish, WA 98075 |
Engine 83 Aid 83 Aid 83A (Reserve) |
Career and Volunteer | 47°34′42"N 122°01′40"W |
| Battalion 3 | ||||
| Station 78 | Coalfield 16135 SE 113 Pl Renton, WA 98059 |
Engine 78 Aid 78 |
Career | 47°30′04"N 122°07′29"W |
| Station 79 | May Valley 20505 SE 152 St Renton, WA 98059 |
Engine 79 Aid 79 |
Volunteer | 47°27′57"N 122°04′02"W |
| Battalion 4 | ||||
| Station 85 | Carnation 3600 Tolt Ave NE Carnation, WA 98014 |
Engine 85 Aid 85 Rescue 85 Tender 85 |
Career and Volunteer | 47°38′28"N 122°54′44"W |
| Station 86 | Joy Lake 10644 E Lake Joy Dr NE Carnation, WA 98014 |
Engine 86 Aid 86 |
Volunteers needed (as of 18 July 2010) | 47°41′32"N 122°52′11"W |
| Battalion 5 | ||||
| Station 87 | North Bend 122 W Second St North Bend, WA 98045 |
Ladder 87 Aid 87 Tender 87 Medic 3 † |
Career and Volunteer | 47°29′47"N 122°47′11"W |
| Station 88 | Wilderness Rim 42804 SE 170th St North Bend, WA 98045 |
Engine 88 Aid 88 |
Volunteer | 47°26′42"N 122°45′50"W |
† Medic 3 and Medic 14 are operated by the Bellevue Fire Department under contract with Eastisde Fire & Rescue.
Personnel
Eastside Fire & Rescue is a combination fire departmentCombination fire department
A combination fire department is a type of fire department which consists of both career and volunteer firefighters. In the United States, combination fire departments are typically tax-supported in some fashion, and generally have an annual call volume larger than purely volunteer departments...
served by both career and volunteer members. The agency has a total of 240 personnel. Eastside Fire employs six full-time career senior officers consisting of the Fire Chief
Fire chief
Fire Chief is a top executive rank or commanding officer in a fire department, either elected or appointed...
, three Deputy Chiefs, and two Battalion Chiefs. The agency employs 117 career firefighters and 89 volunteer firefighters. Career Firefighters can serve as Captains
Fire captain
Captain is a rank in various fire services.In most American and Canadian fire services, a captain ranks above a lieutenant and below a Battalion Chief. This varies, though, between departments – in the Boston Fire Department, the captain is the officer in overall charge of a fire company...
, Lieutenants, or Firefighter. Some volunteers may serve as a Lead Firefighter, ranking below a Lieutenant and above a firefighter. The agency employs 15 administrative support staff, three mechanics, four staff members in Fire Prevention, one staff member in Public Education, and five volunteer chaplains.
- Respond-From-Home (RFH) Volunteers - these members who live or work in or near the district, who respond to emergencies as they occur depending upon their availability.
- RFH Firefighter - traditional firefighters, also required to maintain at least a minimum of medical first responder certification with the State of Washington.
- RFH EMSO - EMS Only members are volunteers who serve by responding to medical emergencies, but who are not firefighters.
- Sleepers - these members draw from the ranks of the RFH Volunteers, but also contain members who live too far from the district to be viable RFH members. Often, these are career-minded volunteers who seek experience as they prepare for a full time firefighting career.