Department Objectives

The Los Santos Fire Department is situated in the South of San Andreas and serves the City of Los Santos and its 4,000,000 citizens. The Department currently employs approximately 62 full-time members and a total of 132 reserve or part-time members. of both firefighting and civilian positions with an annual budget of approximately $20,000,000. The department operates 4 Stations across the city split up across 3 bureaus and maintains 3 boats, 2 helicopters, a HazMat unit, An Aircraft Crash team, a full USaR team, and a Swift Water Rescue/Dive team. The department operates a total of 30 vehicles. The department trains and operates its own emergency medical services, with department personnel trained in Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Flight medicine, and an Advanced Practitioner unit that utilizes nurses from local hospitals. The Los Santos Fire Department is dedicated to responding to and dealing with all calls across Los Santos in conjunction with the Los Santos Police Department, Los Santos Sheriff's Department, Los Santos County Fire Department, and other agencies in order to best serve the citizens of Los Santos.

These departments are expected to uphold the virtues associated with the profession of firefighting and emergency medical care.

Above all else, these departments have the goal of protecting the lives of people and preventing the destruction of property where possible. 

Department members are expected to ensure that life-threatening conditions are dealt with before attention is turned to preventing the further destruction of property. All patients regardless of who they are, their status, their occupation, etc shall be treated equally and according to level and urgency of care required. Then, where possible, the loss of property and livelihood shall be attended to and every effort shall be made to preserve that property.

It is the objective of this department to perform to the best of the member's abilities while also understanding the nature of humanity and to help members learn and grow when they make mistakes, rather than to needlessly punish. 

Department Functions

The following are a list of services that these departments will provide to their communities at a minimum:

Firefighting and Rescue

Emergency Medical Services

Urban Search and Rescue

Hazardous Materials

Public information and learning opportunities

Fire code enforcement

The following are a list of services that are provided by some but not all deparments:

Air fire attack and medical transport

Marine response

Lifeguards

Brush clearance inspections and regulation

Arson investigation

Bomb Squad