Operations
The Roxboro Fire department is a full- service organization. The operational staff consists of 23 career positions and 20+ part-time positions. Career staff is organized into three shifts working a 24 on-duty / 48 off-duty rotational schedule. Each shift starts at 8:00 am and ends at 8:00 am the next day. Our personnel are required to maintain skills in emergency medical care, firefighting, and technical rescue operations. All personnel are responsible for the routine maintenance and care of all equipment and to maintain a high level of readiness for any incident. Our staff clean, inspect, repair, and test all department resources to ensure a safe and efficient work environment.
All personnel are subject to emergency callback to insure adequate staffing is available to respond to the wide variety of emergencies including those in single family homes, commercial structures, industrial occupancies and medical facilities. Our goal is to have a minimum of two engines, one ladder and fifteen personnel respond to all structure fires within the city limits to meet the following service objectives:
• Turnout within 60 seconds
• Arrive on scene, with five personnel, within 5 minutes of dispatch 90% of the time
• Set up two 150 GPM attack lines and attack the fire within 2 minutes of arrival. (NFPA 1710)
• Provide 2 person RIT crew within 2 minutes of arrival as required by CFR 1910.134 (two-in/two-out)
• rovide a 2 person search and rescue crew within two minutes of arrival. (NFPA 1710)
• Respond a minimum of 15 personnel to all structure fires within 8 minutes of dispatch 90% of the time
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Fire Codes
The fire department responds to more than just fire calls. We also provide limited first responder services, response to hazardous materials incidents, and tactical rescue services. In total, the department responds to over 1400 calls per year and handles the emergency phase of each situation before turning the incident over to other appropriate personnel such as police officers or hospital personnel. Whenever a customer calls, we will do everything possible to help with their situation, even the occasional "cat in the tree." If you have a problem, call us; we may have the inside track to the solution.
Fire & Life Safety
Community Education
The fire prevention division of Roxboro Fire and Rescue is working to maintain Roxboro and Person County as a safe community through strategies that improve public safety. These are being addressed through working collaboratively with our local fire department, EMS, Police Department, Sheriff’s Department, Health Department, as well as other agencies.
Our Mission
To provide the customers of Roxboro and Person County a safer community through education efforts, coalitions and awareness campaigns by changing unsafe behaviors impacting high risk audiences based on community needs.
Our Vision
To work together through educational efforts to create a fire safe and injury free community.
Our Goals
Our goal is to reduce the incidents of injury by community based approaches to injury prevention. We at Roxboro Fire and Rescue have developed key projects that cover personal safety, child safety, and road safety.
Prevention Through Education
Roxboro Fire Department is dedicated to educating the public. We are staffed with a combination of seasoned veterans and youthful minds. The main ingredient for our success in the future is our people and the job that they perform. Roxboro Fire Department members have demonstrated a passion for service to the community and for going beyond the expectation of their job. Our team continually works to enhance our overall effectiveness and to innovate in all aspects of performance.
Public Education is designed to reduce the number of injuries and fire incidents due to carelessness or accidents. The reduction of these incidents saves taxpayers money through lower insurance rates and other associated costs.
Beyond the Call
The City provides the following services on a full-time basis: police, fire, water, sewer, streets, animal control, and cemetery.
Other activities include building inspection, planning and zoning, community development and economic development.
By encouraging responsible and responsive planning, we enhance the quality of life in the community by promoting the wellness of neighborhoods, protecting property values by encouraging compatible development, and providing for the future growth and stability of the City of Roxboro.
This report has been compiled following interest shown in fire service in Roxboro and Person County and the desire to share whatever could be found in our records with those interested. It was conceived in a spirit of dedication to those courageous firefighters who are on call day and night protecting citizens and their property from the disaster that uncontrolled fire can bring.
Much of the material contained in this report was taken from the records of the City of Roxboro. Unfortunately, many of the old records of the Fire Department have been destroyed. This report is by no means complete but it is intended to give a general picture of the period and to act as a starting point or a guide to those interested in this history. We have found on old maps of the Town of Roxboro that in 1900 the fire department had 9 volunteers with 2 independent hose carts and no steam or hand engines. The population was 1500.
