Our members provide fire, haz-mat and emergency medical services to the residents, visitors and property owners of the City of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

    The City of Lebanon is the County Seat of Lebanon County, located in South-central Pennsylvania.  The city has a population of about 25,000 residents living in an area of approximately four square miles.

    Fire protection is provided to the city by the Lebanon Bureau of Fire, a combination department consisting of nine volunteer fire companies and 20 career fire fighters, headed by a fire commissioner and a deputy commissioner who are full time fire professionals employed by the city.

    All 19 career fire fighters of the Bureau are members of the Lebanon Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 1952.  Local 1952 is a local affiliate of the International Association of Fire Fighters, the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association and the Central Pensy Professional Fire Fighters Association.

    The IAFF is a member union of the AFof L-CIO CLC and is the sixteenth largest labor union in the United States.  It represents over a quarter of a million professional fire fighters and emergency medical service providers in the United States and Canada.

    The members of the career staff work a four platoon system, A, B, C and D.  We are assigned either to an Engine (pumper) or a Truck (ladder or ladder tower) Company.  There are three men assigned to the engine and two assigned to the truck on each shift.  The first alarm response is the engine and the truck along with a rescue company and a squad company operated by volunteers.  In the event of more serious fires or back to back dispatches, additional career firefighters are recalled to staff reserve apparatus.  These units may respond to the incident already in progress or remain available to cover subsequent dispatches.

    In 2005 the Bureaus total incident count was 1094.  Of those, 178 were listed as fires.  They included building fires(43) cooking(53) heating devices(24) and fourteen other category's.  137 were categorized as rescue or EMS, with the vast majority listed as medical assist(116).  We responded to 311 hazardous conditions not involving fire, including 139 traffic accidents.

    All career members of the Bureau are trained in Essentials Of Fire Fighting as well as  Haz Mat Operations level and EMS First Responder.  Many of our members are certified to higher levels and  in other specialties. In addition to fire, rescue and EMS we are certified fire code inspectors and perform building inspections on a regular basis.