Mission Statement

“Protecting Our Community With The Highest Level of Professionalism.”

We accomplish our mission through highly trained fire fighters, a focus on community education and nationally recognized emergency medical skills.

Values

• Honesty
• Personal Responsibility
• Positive Attitude

Goals

• Improve the performance of Fire Department personnel
• Develop comprehensive operational and administrative guidelines and policies
• Become visible and active in the Community

Services Provided

The Kalispell Firefighters do much more than just fight fires. They provide a wide variety of services within the community such as:

• Advanced Life Support Transport
• Fire and Emergency Medical Response
• Fire Company Fire Inspections / Pre Fire Planning
• Hydrant Inspections
• Ice Rescue
• Kalispell Police Special Response Team
• Mutual Aid to neighboring jurisdictions
• Northwest Hazardous Materials response team
• Public Education
• Technical rescue

Responses

In 2020 the Kalispell Fire Department responded to a total of 3,931 incidents. These numbers reflect fire, hazardous materials, technical rescue and emergency medical service types of calls. With these numbers we average a call volume of nine emergency responses per day. In addition the typical Kalispell fire fighter averages a yearly total of 300 documented training hours.