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 | | | | City of Burton Fire and Rescue "Facts" |  | The City of Burton was officially chartered on July 1, 1972, the youngest and second largest City in Genesee County. The City spans twenty-three point five (23.5) square miles with a population of thirty thousand three hundred and sixteen (30,316) people.
As the City was organized officially July 1, 1972 so was the Fire Department. The City inherited two (2) Fire Stations from the Township, Station #1, located at 2031 E. Bristol Rd. and Station #2, located 1320 S. Belsay Rd. In 1978, Station #3 was opened at 4515 Davison Rd. (The building was converted from an old Gas Station) Fire Station #2 was originally built in the 1940's with a substantial addition opened in 1976. Station #1 was demolished in 1988 after a new steel building was built in 1987 at the same location. The following apparatus is housed at these stations.
Station #1
Engine 11 * 500 gal. pump truck.
Engine 12 * 500 gal. rescue pump truck.
Squad 1 * personnel transport and command center truck.
Station #2
Engine 21 * 500 gal. pump truck.
Engine 22 * 1500 gal. tanker style pump truck, with foam capabilities.
Squad 2 * medium duty rescue squad.
Brush 25 * 34-year-old 4-wheel drive pick-up with 185 gals. of water.
Boat 2 * 14 ft. aluminum boat.
Station #3
Engine 31 * 750 gal. pump truck.
Engine 32 * 500 gal. rescue pump truck.
Today's Burton Firefighter is a community service oriented citizen; highly trained with a minimum of two hundred forty (240) hours training prior to being allowed to actually enter a hostile fire environment. Yearly we require a minimum of sixty (60) hours additional training in various areas of Firefighting such as; Emergency Vehicle Driving Standards, Chemistry of Fire, Application of Fire Suppression agents, proper use and care of Safety equipment and breathing through the self-contained breathing apparatus.
Due to an ever changing enviroment the fire service must now train personnel for Weapons of Mass Destruction,which includes (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Exposives and Nuclear), Anti-Terrorism, Building Collapse, Trench Rescue, Confined Space Rescue, High Rise Rescue, Hazardous Materials Operations, Railroad Emergencies, Clandestine Methamphetamine Drug Lab Emergencies and a miriad of other emergency situations.
The Firefighters are part-time, part-paid employees who receive thirteen dollars ($13.00) per hour for those hours that an alarm requires. The use of a pager-quick alerting system notifies the appropriate Fire Station employees to respond, if available, to various types of emergencies. The firefighters are unionized as members of UAW - Local 708.
The Fire Department is a Quasi-Military Organization with one (1) Full Time Chief, one (1) Full Time Assistant Chief, one (1) one full time Senior Clerk Typist, four (4) part-paid, on call Deputy Chiefs, five (5) Battalion Chiefs, six (6) Captains, and six (6) Lieutenants, with forty four (44) Firefighter/Driver Operators. Each Officer receives many hours of additional training in management, report writing and safety. Fire Apparatus Drivers also receive additional training in the area of pump operations and water supply.
All emergency calls in Genesee County are received at Central Dispatch, located at Michigan State Police Post on Corunna Road. The proper emergency service for each call is then dispatched directly to the incident.
There were eight hundred eighty five (885) emergency fire calls in 2003, sixty eight percent (68%) of which were for fires, emergency rescue or extrication. Average property loss due to Fires amounts to over five million annually. |
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