Mission Statement

Our mission is to respond quickly and professionally to all requests for help from our customers, the citizens we serve.

Our goal is to protect life and property through compassionate and cost-effective emergency fire and medical services, and through community - based education and prevention programs.

We dedicate ourselves to providing superior customer service, and to maintaining a department which is safe and professionally challenging - a department which we are proud to belong.

About Us

Our town, Guymon, sits in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle. We are 264 miles from Oklahoma City and 121 miles from Amarillo, Texas. Our town has a population of 10,472 (Census 2000) with diverse cultures. The town is always growing with the number one reason being our pork production farms and processing plant. This area, being mostly a rural area, relies highly on agriculture.

Our department consists of two stations with 12 duty personnel, 2 chiefs and 40 volunteers. We cover a city of approximately 7.31 square miles. we also cover a portion of Texas County and have mutal aid agreements with the volunteer fire departments that cover the rest of the County. Along with fire suppression (structural and wild land), the department also covers the ambulance service, extrication and rescue, and leads the way in comprehensive public education programs. we have three fire trucks, four ambulances, two rescue trucks and two brush trucks, any of which can be sent out at any time.

There are three shifts, A, B and C. they consist of a captain, a lieutenant and two firefighters. The main station houses all of the ambulances, a first out pumper and a reserve pumper, two brush trucks and two rescue trucks . The captain and two firefighters man the main station. County ambulance calls are handled by the duty personnel but county fire runs are handled by volunteers or off duty personnel. Due to a major railroad splitting the town, Station 2 is on the south side and consists of one pumper and the shift lieutenant mans the Station. Station 2 responds to medical calls only if they are in its district (south of the track) and responds to all fire calls in the city. Each shift will work 24 hours at a time, ready to drop everything at a moment's notice to respond to the community's needs. After the 24 hour shift, the on-duty personnel get 48 hours off. If there is an emergency call, a fire fighter from the shift before must return to cover the station in the event of another call. This is called callback and is rotated so that all personnel receive it equally. To notify personnel, everyone carries pagers, and they are also carried by all the volunteers and are controlled at the main station. They can notify one person, or make a mass page to alert everyone of a fire.

When a person has an emergency in Guymon, they can call 9-1-1. This call goes directly to the police department. They determine where to forward the call. After they take all the information and if it is a fire or ambulance call, it is forwarded to the fire department. An alarm bell rings at the Station and the caller must now repeat all the information to the Fire Department. From there the appropriate apparatus are sent out. All of our radio traffic is also taken care of at the main Station.

The city of Guymon may always be changing, but the fire department will always be there if somebody needs help.