New Haven Fire Department
| Operational area | |
|---|---|
| Country |
 United States
|
| State |
 Connecticut
|
| City | New Haven |
| Agency overview | |
| Established | June 24, 1862 |
| Annual calls | 24,865 (2016) |
| Employees | 376 (2014) |
| Annual budget | $30,976,412 (2014) |
| Staffing | Career |
| Fire chief | John Alston, jr. |
| IAFF | 825 |
| Facilities and equipment | |
| Divisions | 4 |
| Battalions | 2 |
| Stations | 10 |
| Engines | 10 |
| Trucks | 1 |
| Tillers | 2 |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Squads | 2 |
| HAZMAT | 2 |
| USAR | 1 |
| Wildland | 1 |
| Fireboats | 1 |
| Rescue boats | 1 |
| Light and air | 1 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
| IAFF website | |
The New Haven Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The New Haven Fire Department currently serves a population of over 130,000 people living in 19 square miles of land.
EMS transport services are contracted by the city to American Medical Response which provides both BLS (EMT) and ALS (EMT-Paramedic) ambulances.
As of 2016 the NHFD has received an ISO Class 1 rating, making New Haven the third department in Connecticut (the other two being Hartford, CT and Milford, CT) with an ISO Class 1 rating and 1 of 60+/- departments in the country.
The New Haven Fire Department currently operates out of 10 fire stations, located throughout the city and organized into 2 battalions: East and West. The NHFD operates 10 engine companies, 4 truck companies, 2 squad companies, and 2 paramedic emergency units. Each engine and truck company, as well as Squad 2, are staffed by an officer and 3 firefighters. Squad 1 is staffed by an officer and 4 firefighters.
As of August 2015[update] this is a listing of all stations and apparatus in front line service operated by the New Haven Fire Department.
Throughout the history of the New Haven Fire Department, there have been several fire companies that have been disbanded due to budget cuts and reorganization.
In 2009 eighteen city firefighters, seventeen of whom were white and one of whom was Hispanic, brought suit against the department under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after they had passed the test for promotions to management positions and the city declined to promote them. New Haven officials invalidated the test results because none of the black firefighters scored high enough to be considered for the positions. City officials stated that they feared a lawsuit over the test's disproportionate exclusion of certain racial groups from promotion under the controversial "disparate impact" theory of liability.
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