Emergency services in Westchester County

Westchester County, New York has a wide array of Emergency services. There are 58 local fire departments located throughout Westchester County. Each department is run by career, volunteer or a combination of career and volunteer personnel who serve and protect the county.

Fire Departments
There are 58 local fire departments located throughout Westchester County. Each department is made up of career, volunteer or a combination of career and volunteer personnel who serve and protect the county.

The counties fire services are broken down into 10 separate battalions based on geography and district size.

Battalion 10

 * Buchanan – 255 (All Volunteer)
 * Croton – 208 (All Volunteer)
 * Indian Point – 265 (Fire Brigade)
 * Montrose – 227 (All Volunteer)
 * Montrose VA – 257 (Career- Military/Federal)
 * City of Peekskill – 234 (Combination)
 * Verplanck – 249 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 11

 * Hawthorne – 219 (All Volunteer)
 * Pleasantville – 237 (All Volunteer)
 * Thornwood – 247 (All Volunteer)
 * Grasslands Brigade – 254 (Composed of fire instructors from the WCFTC)
 * Valhalla – 248 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 12

 * Archville – 263 (All Volunteer)
 * Briarcliff Manor -205 (All Volunteer)
 * Sleepy Hollow – 231 (All Volunteer)
 * Ossining – 233 (All Volunteer, Largest all volunteer Fire Department in NY State)
 * Pocantico Hills – 238 (All Volunteer)
 * Sing Sing Correctional – 261 (Paid/Career)

Battalion 13

 * Croton Falls – 207 (All Volunteer)
 * Goldens Bridge – 214 (All Volunteer)
 * Pound Ridge – 240 (All Volunteer)
 * Somers – 244 (All Volunteer)
 * South Salem – 245 (All Volunteer)
 * Vista – 256 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 14

 * Ardsley – 201 (All Volunteer)
 * Dobbs Ferry – 209 (All Volunteer)
 * Elmsford – 211 (All Volunteer)
 * Fairview – 212 (Combination/ Mostly Career)
 * Hartsdale – 217 (Combination/ Mostly Career)
 * Hastings – 218 (All Volunteer)
 * Irvington – 220 (All Volunteer)
 * Tarrytown – 246 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 15

 * Harrison – 216 (Combination)
 * Larchmont – 222 (Combination)
 * Mamaroneck Town – 223 (Combination)
 * Mamaroneck Village – 224 (All Volunteer)
 * Port Chester – 239 (Combination)
 * City of Rye – 242 (Combination)
 * Rye Brook – 266 (Career)

Battalion 16

 * Armonk – 202 (All Volunteer)
 * Banksville – 258 (All Volunteer)
 * Bedford Hills – 203 (All Volunteer)
 * Bedford – 204 (All Volunteer)
 * Chappaqua – 206 (All Volunteer)
 * Katonah – 221 (All Volunteer)
 * Mount Kisco – 228 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 17

 * Continental Village- 213 (All Volunteer)
 * Millwood – 225 (All Volunteer)
 * Mohegan – 226 (Combination)
 * Yorktown Heights – 253 (All Volunteer)

Battalion 18

 * Eastchester – 210 (Combination)
 * Greenville – 215 (Combination/ Mostly Career)
 * City of Mount Vernon – 229 (Career)
 * City of New Rochelle – 230 (Career)
 * Pelham – 235 (Combination)
 * Pelham Manor – 236 (Combination)
 * City of Yonkers – 252 (Career)

Battalion 19

 * North White Plains – 232 (All Volunteer)
 * Purchase – 241 (All Volunteer)
 * Scarsdale – 243 (Combination)
 * West Harrison– 250 (All Volunteer)
 * City of White Plains – 251 (Career)
 * Westchester County Airport – 259 (Career)

Emergency Medical Services
There are approximately 42 Ambulance and Paramedic services in Westchester County. Some of these services may be All Volunteer (VAC), paid, or a combination of the two. While others may be integrated with a local fire department (FD-VAC, FD-EMS) or an independent ambulance service that works through contracts agreements with individual Cities, Towns, and Villages for either Basic Life Support (BLS Ambulance), Advanced Life Support (Paramedic) or both.

Local Emergency Medical Agencies in Westchester Countnty

 * ARMONK FD-EMS
 * ARDSLEY VAC
 * BEDFORD FD-EMS
 * BRIARCLIFF FD-EMS
 * CHAPPAQUA VAC
 * CORTLANDT VAC
 * CROTON FD EMS
 * CORTLANDT MEDICS
 * DOBBS FERRY VAC
 * EASTCHESTER VAC
 * ELMSFORD FD-EMS
 * EMPIRE STATE AMB (Independent ambulance service, mostly transport)
 * EMPRESS AMB SERVICE (Mt. Vernon EMS, Pelham EMS, City of Yonkers EMS, Yorktown Medics)
 * GREENBURGH PD-EMS
 * HARRISON EMS
 * HASTINGS FD-EMS
 * HAWTHORNE FD-EMS
 * IRVINGTON VAC
 * KATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VAC
 * LARCHMONT VAC (Village of Larchmont & Town of Mamaroneck)
 * LEWISBORO VAC
 * MAMARONECK EMS
 * MOUNT KISCO VAC
 * MOHEGAN VFA VAC
 * OSSINING VAC
 * NORTH SALEM VAC
 * PLEASANTVILLE VAC
 * PEEKSKILL VAC
 * POUND RIDGE VAC
 * PORT CHESTER / RYE / RYE BROOK VAC
 * SLEEPY HOLLOW EMS
 * SCARSDALE VAC
 * SLEEPY HOLLOW AMBULANCE CORPS
 * SOMERS FD EMS
 * STAT FLIGHT (Emergency Medical Helicopter Transport Service)
 * TARRYTOWN VAC
 * TRANS-CARE AMB SERVICE (Mt. Pleasant Medics, New Rochelle EMS, White Plains EMS)
 * VALHALLA VAC
 * VERPLANCK FD EMS
 * VISTA FD EMS
 * WESTCHESTER EMS (Independent BLS/ALS ambulance service in Northern Westchester, Paramedic service for towns of Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, Bedford, Pound Ridge, Lewisboro, North Salem, and Somers, also handle the primary dispatch for Somers FD/EMS.)
 * YORKTOWN VAC

Emergency Services Dispatch 60-Control (E.C.C. Center)
60 Control provides primary dispatch for over 37 Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Dispatch for over 18 EMS Agencies in Westchester County. Currently there are Eighteen Dispatchers, Five Shift Supervisors (Lieutenants), Two Captains, and a Chief who comprise the Communications Division. There are a total of five groups (squads), two of the five groups work on a given day. All shifts are twelve hours long. Each group rotates between days and nights and work three shifts per week. When at full staff, each group is assigned One Lieutenant and Four Dispatchers. The Westchester County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was established in 1999 as a division within the County's newly created Department of Emergency Services. The Department of Emergency Services incorporates OEM, Fire Training Division, EMS Training Division and 60-Control, the coordinating agency for countywide fire and EMS dispatching.