Lethbridge firefighters responding at a hotel

What we do

Ready for every kind of call.

Your Lethbridge firefighters bring technical skill, medical expertise, calm judgement, and teamwork to every shift.

Fire, rescue, emergency medical care & dispatch

When Every Second Counts

Fire response, emergency medical care, rescue and dispatch depend on coordinated teamwork. Lethbridge’s Public Safety Communications Centre coordinates local fire dispatch, helping connect calls with crews. Ambulance dispatch is separate: it moved to Alberta Health Services’ provincial EMS dispatch system in January 2021.

Lethbridge fire and emergency medical apparatus responding to a downtown hotel fire — Fire and rescueFire and EMS response.Winter emergency response.

Two yellow box ambulances parked outside a Lethbridge station in a historical photograph. — From the archives · date unknownHistorical ambulance fleet.Two yellow ambulances outside a station.

Historical Lethbridge communications console with a city map, telephone and recording equipment. — From the archives · date unknownHistorical dispatch console.Earlier Lethbridge communications equipment.

Firefighters practise reaching a building with an aerial apparatus. — TrainingAerial training.Practising with the aerial apparatus.

Lethbridge firefighters on a rescue boat during water-rescue training. — TrainingWater rescue.Training with the rescue boat.

An archival Lethbridge fire-company group outside a hall labelled 1891 Fire Hall. — From the archives · date unknownThe fire company.Firefighters outside an earlier hall.

Uniformed firefighters stand with harnessed horses inside a fire hall. — From the archives · date unknownHorses in the fire hall.An earlier era of fire service.

From the archivesThe Balmoral Hotel fireFirefighters and spectators at the Balmoral Hotel fire on 5th Street South in 1911

From the archivesA wartime send-offThe first group of wartime volunteers from Lethbridge, with Fire Chief William Hardy and fire department members, beside a train in 1914

From the archivesFirst Baptist Church fireFlames rising from First Baptist Church in Lethbridge on January 15, 1953

From the archivesThe Hull Block fireFirefighting streams directed at the smoke-filled Hull Block, with the original scan caption and credit preserved.

From the archivesA grassfire crosses the riverAerial view of the burned landscape near Lethbridge on November 28, 2011, the morning after the grassfire

Department photographs; individual credits retained. Historical capture dates are unverified.

History Last Alarm City recruitment