Customer needs are met through a combination of paid and volunteer staff efforts. Paid members, totaling 7, are responsible for weekday, daytime response and administrative functions. Volunteers, usually averaging 25 in number, cover the balance of the emergent responses.
Volunteers also provide coverage throughout the weekends.
The volunteer component plays a large part in the emergency services delivered to the community. The Union Gap Volunteer Fire Department was formed November 3, 1937. Fourteen individuals united in an effort to provide what they perceived to be the fire protection needs of the community. More than fifty years later, that tradition lives on, with dedicated volunteers and a small paid staff providing fire protection and other emergency services. Home Department Info.