Smithville Area Fire Protection District

On November 3rd, citizens approved a tax increase to fund operations of the District including the staffing of Fire Station #3.

SAFD will conduct hiring processes back-to-back, adding 3 to 6 firefighters each time, to fill new positions and to back-fill positions after promotions. This will result in 12 to 15 new firefighter positions being hired over the next 36 months.

Please find attached infomation regarding the upcoming hiring process. 

The Smithville Area Fire Protection District has released an Annual Report which details our responses and activities in 2020. In 2020, the Fire District saw an increase of 16% in the total number of incidents from 2019. While most of the additional responses where to emergency medical incidents, total fire incidents were up as well. The total number of public education and public relations events are down from previous years due in large part to fewer public gatherings due to the pandemic.