CWFD Annual Open House, Health and Safety Fair
Saturday, Sept. 28th from 10 am - 2 pm
Bring your friends and family and enjoy a fun day at the fire station!
The day's events include live kitchen fire demonstrations at 10:15 and 12:30, vehicle extrication demonstrations at 10:45 and 1:30, a house fire simulation with sprinkler demonstration at 11:45, fire extinguisher interactive demonstrations at 11:15, 12:15 and 12:45, and Clark County Sheriff's K9-Unit demonstration at 1:00. Over 20 local agencies and businesses will have exhibits focused on health, safety and emergency preparedness, including NWN who joins the event as part of their "Get Ready" campaign. Free lunch and other goodies provided! Don't miss out!
The Camas-Washougal Fire Department provides both fire and emergency medical services to our citizens. CWFD personnel also provide emergency medical services to citizens outside the Camas city limits along with mutual aid fire protection to neighboring departments.
The Camas-Washougal Fire Department covers 20 square miles and over 33,000 citizens for fire protection and approximately 80 square miles containing 65,000 citizens for paramedic services. CWFD averages approximately 5,000 fire and medical calls annually.
There are currently forty four career firefighters, one chief, two division chiefs, one deputy fire marshal, four battalion chiefs, and two administrative assistants at CWFD. The department is also supported by 20 highly trained volunteer firefighters. All line firefighters are either EMT/IV Technicians or EMT/Paramedics and have high levels of training in fire suppression.
We have three fire stations, Station 41 in downtown Camas, Station 42 in the Prune Hill area, and Station 43 in downtown Washougal. These stations have 24 hour full time staffing and at least one paramedic unit at each station.
Since July 13th, 2011 the Camas and Washougal Fire Departments have been consolidated in to one agency through a contract for service. Under this agreement, both departments operate under one chief and combine all operational staffing in an effort to improve efficiency and lower expenditures.
The Camas-Washougal Fire Department is the only fire department in Clark County that provides ambulance services. This added responsibility requires our firefighters to be highly skilled in emergency services along with fire suppression techniques.
