Los Alamos Fire Department

==Area Served==
The Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the Town and County of Los Alamos, located in north-central New Mexico between the Rio Grande and the eastern rim of the Valles Caldera on the Pajarito Plateau. The LAFD also provides personnel and equipment under contract to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with Fire Stations 1 and 5 and their assigned apparatus owned by the United States Department of Energy (DoE). Los Alamos lies approximately 35 miles to the northwest of the city of Santa Fe and in Spanish typically refers to poplar or cottonwood trees. Incorporated with a consolidated city-county government in 1969, Los Alamos has a population of approximately 13,200 as of 2020, and encompasses an area covering 100 square miles, half of which is national forest and Los Alamos County, while the other half is LANL property
==Department Profile==
The Los Alamos Fire Department, the second-largest fire department in the state of New Mexico, is budgeted for 139 sworn and 13 non-sworn employees and has a daily staffing of 37 firefighters working 48 hours on and 96 hours off while providing structural firefighting, emergency medical response, technical rescue, hazardous materials mitigation, aviation (ARFF) rescue, fire prevention, fire investigation, code enforcement, public education, and domestic preparedness planning and response to the citizens of the town of Los Alamos, as well as to Los Alamos county. The department's resources include an accredited fire academy, five fire stations, in addition to a sixth station that is not staffed and has no assigned apparatus, but is used primarily for training for which it has a training tower, a practical learning center (burn building), a confined space simulator, and various other training props. There are thirteen front-line emergency apparatus comprised of five paramedic engine companies, two paramedic ladder truck companies, five paramedic ambulances, and one battalion chief vehicle. Each fire engine is staffed with one captain, one engineer, and two firefighters; with at least one member of the crew certified as paramedic. The ladder company is made up of one captain, one engineer, and two firefighters with at least one member of the crew certified as a paramedic; the ambulances are staffed with two firefighter-paramedics and the battalion chief vehicle with one chief officer; all are Basic Life Support (BLS) certified. LAFD also cross staffs fifteen wildland/urban interface suppression vehicles, a hazardous materials unit, two (one light, one heavy) rescue units, one mobile command center vehicle, and an aircraft fire fighting rescue (ARFF) unit. LAFD responded to 2,446 calls for service in 2021, with 64.5% of those consisting of EMS calls, and has a mutual aid agreement with the United States Forest Service.
==History==
The Los Alamos Fire Department was originally organized under Project Y / the Manhattan Project in April 1943 and initially served the community of a secret facility for research and development into the first nuclear weapon with 7 civilian firefighters and 25 volunteer firefighters. It took just 20 months when, on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo bombing range. The Trinity Site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975. Military services took over operations in September 1943 and provided fire protection until 1989 when governance was transferred from the United States Department of Energy and the United States Atomic Energy Commission to the Incorporated County of Los Alamos (LAC). The Los Alamos Fire Department has maintained an ISO Class 1 rating since January 2021 and, with Albuquerque Fire & Rescue and the Las Cruces Fire Department, is one of only three departments in New Mexico having attained that class rating.
===Fire Stations===
Station	Address 	In Service	Notes
2 	132 DP Road, Los Alamos	1951-1989 	Converted to training station
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
====LAFD Apparatus ====
:Truck 1 - 2014 Smeal Sirius (1500/500/105' rear-mount)
:Heavy Rescue 1 - 2016
:Rescue 1 - 2014 Ram 5500 4x4 / Maintainer Custom Bodies 10' walk-around
:Mini-Tender 1 - 2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:Tender 1 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (1250,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14534-01)
:Medic 1 - 2019 Ram / Wheeled Coach
:Battalion 1 - Chevrolet Suburban 4x4
:Technical Rescue trailer - trailer
===Fire Station 2 (Training Division) - 132 DP Road, Los Alamos===
Built 1951
===Fire Station 3 - 129 State Road 4, White Rock===
Built 2008 
:Engine 3 - 2018 HME Spectr MFDxL / Alexis (1500/700/30F) (Job#2342)
: Truck 3 - 2014 Smeal Sirius (1500/500/105' rear-mount)
:Mini-Tender 3 - 2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:Tender 3 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (1250,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14534-02)
:Medic 3 - 2019 Ram / Wheeled Coach
:Medic 30 - Freightliner FL 50 ambulance
: HazMat 1 - 2014 E-One walk-in
:Decon 1 - 22' trailer
:Hazmat Trailer - flammable liquid response trailer
:MOC - 2004 E-One / Saulsbury walk-in
===Fire Station 4 - 4401 Diamond Drive, Los Alamos===
Built 1964 / Upgraded 2002
:Engine 4 - 2017 Pierce Velocity 7010 PUC (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#30418) (Ex-stock) (DoE owned)
:Mini-Tender 4 - 2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:Tender 4 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (2000,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14604-02)
:Medic 4 - 2019 Ram / Wheeled Coach
:Utility 14 - 
====LAFD Apparatus==== 
:Engine 5 - 2018 HME Spectr MFDxL / Alexis (1500/700/30F) (Job#2343)
:Mini-Tender 5 - 2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:Tender 5 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (1250,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14534-03)
:Medic 5 - 2019 Ram / Wheeled Coach ambulance
===Fire Station 6 - 457 East Road, Los Alamos / Los Alamos Airport===
Built 1991 
:Engine 6 - 2016 Pierce Velocity (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#29001) (DoE owned)
:Mini-Tender 6 - 2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:Tender 6 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (2000,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14604-03)
: CFR 6 - 2002 E-One Titan HPR 8x8 crash tender (1750/2650/330F/550 lbs. DC)
:Medic 6 - 2019 Ram / Wheeled Coach ambulance
===Station/Assignment Unknown===
:Tender 2 - 2021 International HV507 4x4 / Skeeter Type 2 wildland (2000,400aux/1750/20A/40B) (Job#14604-01)
:Brush 1 - 2017 Ford F-550 4x4 / Skeeter Type 5 wildland (100/400/10A) (Job#14265)
:Brush 7 - 2017 Ford F-550 4x4 / Skeeter Type 5 wildland (100/400/10A)
:Brush 8 - 2017 International WorkStar 4x4 / BME Type 4 wildland (Ex-Brush 4)
:2018 Ford F-550 4x4 / Weis QA400RM Type 5 wildland (200/400/10A)
:E-One Cyclone II aerial (2000/500/100' rear-mount) (Ex-Engine 3)
==Retired Apparatus==
:2003 Freightliner / E-One tanker (1250/2500/25A/25B) (Ex-Tender 6)
:2003 Kenworth / E-One tanker (1250/2500/25A/25B) (Ex-Tender 3)
:2002 Freightliner FL 40 / E-One walk-around (ex-Rescue 1)
:2002 E-One Cyclone aerial (1500/300/30F/75’ rear-mount) (Ex-Engine 6) (Sold to East Greenwich Fire District (Rhode Island))
:2001 E-One Cyclone II tandem aerial (1750/-/250F/118' Bronto Skylift F118 HDT ER rear-mount) (Ex-Truck 1)
:1986 KME pumper (1250/500) (Sold to Barnsdall Rural Fire Department)
:1993 E-One Cyclone Hush walk-in rescue (Ex-Heavy Rescue 1) (Sold to Montgomery County Fire / EMS (Kentucky) 
:1989 Pierce Arrow tandem aerial (?/?/105' rear-mount platform) (SN#E5058)
:1975 Hendrickson 1871-S tandem / Clark / Calavar Firebird 75 aerial (1000/500/75' rear-mount bucket) (Ex-Truck 1) (Sold to Wilburton Fire Department)
:1971 Hahn CC10 / Clark pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 7)
:1971 Hahn CC8 / Clark pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 1)
:1971 Hahn CC7 / Clark pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 4)
:1971 Hahn CC3 / Clark pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 5)
:1970 Hahn CC3 / Clark pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 2)
==External Links==
*Los Alamos Fire Department 
==Station Map==
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