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.