Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services
Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services (MFES) provides fire protection, technical rescue services, hazardous materials response, and first responder emergency medical assistance to the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The Fire Service was established in 1968 and formed from local departments (Cooksville, Lakeview, Malton, Meadowvale) that existed prior to the creation of Mississauga, Ontario. The Port Credit Fire Department and Streetsville Fire Departments were added upon the amalgamation of those communities with Mississauga in 1974. MFES was mainly made up of the Toronto Township Volunteer Fire Department, itself created from volunteer units in the 1870s. By  1975, Mississauga's fire service was a full-time service. Mississauga Fire co-ordinates with Toronto Fire Services, Brampton Fire and Emergency Services, and Peel Regional Paramedic Services for additional help and practicing emergency disaster exercises. In 2017, MFES responded to over 34,000 emergency calls. Operations. Fire stations and apparatus. Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon underwent a region-wide renumbering of stations and apparatus in the 1990s. Each station is assigned a 3 digit number and each apparatus is given an alpha-numeric callsign corresponding with the station number. The alphabetic prefix identifies the type of apparatus, the first numerical digit  identifies the municipality, and the remaining two numerical digits identify the station. The municipality identifiers are '1' for Mississauga, '2' for Brampton, and '3' for Caledon. For example, Station 101 would be Mississauga's no. 1 station and P101 would be a pumper assigned to it, and so on. Spare apparatus (for Mississauga and Brampton) would be numbered with a 5 as the second numerical digit in the number (P150, S151, A152, etc.). In January 2020, as part of an apparatus redeployment plan, a second Pumper Company was organized and assigned to Station 101. Since the department had not previously  run two Pumper Companies out of the same station, a numbering system for duplicate companies had not been utilized. To distinguish the second pumper from P101, it was given the callsign P131. As of December 2020, MFES currently operates 21 fire stations and the following apparatus: Petro Canada Lubricants. Petro Canada has their own in-house fire equipment (emergency response team) at their lubricants facility in Mississauga. For major fires or other situations, Mississauga Fire would be asked to assist as primary responders. Members. As of 2006 MFES has 700 firefighters and personnel. The firefighters are represented by Local 1212  of IAFF.