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The Fire Department is located at 851 North Main Street. The phone number is 828/697-3024.
Mission Statement:
- To promote life safety and reduce human suffering and property loss through public education and fire prevention programs.
- To mitigate the consequences of fire, accident, sudden illness or disaster in the community.
- To recognize that every individual is valuable and to maximize each members potential, reaching into the future, never forgetting the past.
Departmental Priorities:
- Prevention of fires through an aggressive education, inspection and code enforcement program.
- Conduct fire inspections at the frequency established by law or administrative policy.
- Provide emergency responses by insuring an average of 200 hours annual training per employee, cost effective equipment, modern apparatus, and a disciplined, motivated work force.
- Hold the cumulative loss of property due to fire to 5% or less of the total value responded to and involved in fire.
- Continue to assist local businesses and industry in complying with Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA).
- Maintain an average response time of less than 4 minutes to 90% of all emergencies.
- Provide increased and detailed documentation of efforts expended in providing fire department services.
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