Emergency Medical Services, or EMS, is at the core of what we do at Poudre Fire Authority's (PFA). All firefighters are certified, at a minimum, as emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, and some employees have more advanced certifications. 

Each year, between 70 to 80 percent of calls to which our firefighters respond are medical in nature. Firefighters respond to heart attacks, falls, broken bones, and other 911 calls that require medical assistance.

 That's why a fire engine or truck is always there along with an ambulance at medical calls throughout the community.

PFA actually manages a contract for ambulance services with our partners, UCHealth. This helps ensure that the skills, resources, and medical protocols of both organizations are aligned. We respond to calls together every day and regularly train together. 

Partnerships throughout PFA's Jurisdiction 

PFA is the authority having jurisdiction with the responsibility to provide EMS services. What does that mean?

It's a legal way of saying that PFA works with public organizations, as well as through public-private partnerships and formal agreements, to provide world-class emergency medical services to all people within a 2,200-square-mile area in Northern Larimer County.