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Welcome to the Vidalia Fire
Department's
Web Page
Johnny Evans, Fire Chief
Doug Honeycutt,
Assistant Chief
The Vidalia Fire Department
strives on safety, professionalism, and its service
to the City of Vidalia and its residents. The
department also provides mutual aid to the Concordia
Parish Volunteer Fire Department when called upon.
Our department consists of an EMS unit, Hazardous
Materials Response Team for all of Concordia Parish,
a fire suppression team, a rescue unit, and we have
recently added to our department a team for rope
rescue, confine space rescue, and trench rescue. We
are very proud of our department and its
accomplishments in keeping up with the needs of the
City of Vidalia and its surrounding areas. The City
of Vidalia is fortunate to have a Fire Department
that holds a current P.I.A.L. (Property Insurance
Association of Louisiana) rating of a 3. To learn
more about our department feel free to browse the
entire site and thank you for your interest.
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The mission of the Vidalia Fire Department is to
provide professional services to the City of Vidalia
and the Citizens in the areas of fire protection,
fire education, fire prevention, EMS services,
hazardous materials response, and various types of
rescue. We are a very small department of 12 full
time line Firefighters, 3 Lieutenants, 3 Captains,
3 Battalion Chief's, and 3 administration personnel which consist of the
Chief, Assistant Chief, and Admin. Secretary. Our
Department also has 4 Hazmat Technicians, and 16
EMT's. We are committed to the most up to date
training in the evolving methods of various types of
Fire Department related fields. We are also very
much committed to the objectives of the Office of
Homeland Security. Our department not only provides
coverage for the City of Vidalia, but also provides
automatic aid to the volunteer department
that covers the entire Parish Concordia Fire
District 2.
We also work very closely with the local Office
of Homeland Security in preparation for any type of
natural or un-natural disaster.
Our special rescue response teams work closely
with local industry in various types of rescue
training including but not limited to high angle
rescue, trench rescue, confine space rescue,
extrication, and rapid intervention teams.
Our department also works closely with local law
enforcement in the fight against arson and juvenile
fire setters. Members of local law enforcement
also volunteer their off time to participate in
training with The Vidalia Fire Department to better
help the department on various types of scenes when
needed.
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