Welcome to the Cowichan Bay Fire Rescue website
Our goal is to provide you with fire prevention and safety information that will help keep your family safe and prepared for emergencies. You will find an overview of the services you can expect from the local fire service, our response apparatus and area of coverage. Please see our contact page if you’d like to get in touch or signup for newsletter and notifications.
Emergency response services include fire suppression, motor vehicle incidents and other rescue operations, emergency medical assistance, and emergency incident management. All firefighters are highly trained and instrumental in the delivery of these services in our community. Our dedicated firefighters are a competent and caring group of local citizens willing to make personal sacrifices for the protection and good of the community. Our firefighter’s work across multiple disciplines to provide fire prevention, inspection and public education, in house training and education programs, apparatus and equipment maintenance while being prepared to ably respond to an emergency incident at any time.
Cowichan Bay Fire Rescue is currently made up of 28 firefighters working out of our fire station located at 4461 Trans Canada Highway. As your Fire Chief I work with our firefighters in running day to day operations and also with Cowichan Bay Improvement District, Cowichan Valley Regional District & Office of the Fire Commissioner among others.
I’m very proud of the calibre of people making up our fire service staff and the high standards they set for themselves in service delivery. Our strength truly is in our people.
Education and prevention programs supported by dedicated emergency responders assures our community of the best possible service today and is the foundation to build towards a safe and secure future. With the support of our citizens and ratepayers we aim to be the leader in community safety.
Respectfully,
Fire Chief Robert E. Grossman