About Us

Local 4131

Local 4131 is home to 154 members of Escambia County Fire Rescue (ECFR) located in Pensacola, Florida.  We currently have twenty unfilled positions, including the Fire Chief.

Escambia County covers 662 square miles and is the Western most county in Florida.  A resident population of nearly 400,000 people with an average annual tourist load of over 2,000,000 people.  ECFR runs approximately 18,000 calls a year and provides everything from fire suppression to ocean rescue and non-transport ALS.  We are the busiest firefighting fire department, per capita, in the State and have been for years.  ECFR averages a working structure fire every 24 hours.

L4131 members work a 24/48 shift, divided into two battalions, in 15 firehouses located throughout the County including two barrier islands on the Gulf of Mexico.  There are 53 line personnel and two battalion chiefs on duty per day and a total of 157 frontline members.  We also staff two Monday through Friday 0700-1600 firehouses, one near the Alabama line in Century, Florida and one in the Western side of Escambia County in Beulah.  Most companies were covered with four personnel led by one Lieutenant, but currently all companies are routinely staff with only three people.

Our members staff 11 engines, one heavy rescue, three ladder trucks, one Haz Mat regional team (HM-1C), one USAR rescue team, six jet skis with support trucks, and five brush trucks.  Five of our companies provide ALS coverage.

We started career fire protection is Escambia County in 2000 with 36 personnel working Monday through Friday from 0700-1600 and have continued to grow every year to meet the needs of the citizens, and guests, we serve, and the County we protect.