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We are regretfully announcing the sudden retirement of current Fire Chief as seen in the Daily News article here. Our highly revered and respected Fire Chief Mike Dutton “retired” after 10 years of faithful service to the Fort Walton Beach FD. Chief Dutton helped to continue in keeping the Fort Walton Beach FD a Dept. of “1st’s” (in [...]

A-Shift T-6 & R-6 responded to an occupied dwelling in the early morning of Feb 26th. Unfortunately heavy fire was through the roof upon arrival of FWBFD companies. A story of the fire from the Daily News here Photo care of Daily News. More to come…

Want to listen to Fort Walton Beach FD dispatch? Now you can online for free. Live dispatch of FWB including: N Walton FR, OCEMS, Crestview FD, Santa Rosa EMS & FD, Escambia County EMS & FD. Click here to listen now!   Enjoy!

  A Shift gets working structure fire first due. E-7 arrived to find heavy involvement of a small house off of Green Acres Rd. Check out the links of the Daily News story here  

This is a graphic intense video(use discretion around young viewers) of the resulting horrors of drunk driving. For everyone’s sake this Christmas if you drink please call a cab. We see this all too often…

E-1, E-7, E-3 and others managed a working structure at appx. 300am last shift in OCW E-1′s first due area. E-1 arrived with moderate smoke showing in a 2k sq. ft dwelling. Upon interior investigation a fire was discovered luckily nobody was home at the time and the house was saved. E-7 was able to [...]

A busy couple of shifts for the “A” lately. Last shift on the 1st T-6 & R-6 were dispatched to a cardiac arrest. The pt. was found in full cardiac arrest, unresponsive, by arriving crews and due to paramedic medicine coupled with quick actions by both crews a pulse was recovered and the man was able to [...]

The boys from the “A” are challenging the other shifts, surrounding firefighters, and all our friends to a friendly “stache bash”. Check out the facebook page below and join up now! Stachetoberfest

Negotiations for this years contract are done and over with for this year. It was agreed by the Firefighters, staff, & city management to renew a 3 year contract basically status quo idea being protecting the manning on the fire engines first and foremost. Firefighters and staff have worked diligently to educate city council of [...]

Attention all residents and business owners withing the City limits of FWB. Make sure to attend our local budget meetings to express your support of the current agenda-ed budget in order to keep our emergency services intact! Special Council–Budget Wednesday, September 08 2010, 5:30pm 5:30 pm Location : Council Chambers

B-shift had a working structure fire in a motel room downtown a few days ago. Upon dispatch it was reported that multiple victims were entrapped. Upon arrival of Bat-6 heavy fire was reported from one room. T-6 made a quick knock on this single room fire and confined it to the room of origin while [...]

NICEVILLE — A contractor working near a manhole fell into it Monday morning at around 11 a.m. A group of 15 Okaloosa County special operations firefighters(FWBFD A-shift), trained in confined space rescue, assisted Niceville firefighters in the 45-minute rescue. The man was eventually removed from the hole via another underground exit by FF Morgan & [...]

At approximately 8am Monday July 12th, Engine Company 6 (Truck 6 out for repairs) and Battalion 6 were dispatched to a submerged vehicle at the Walkedge boat ramp off of Brooks st with unknown occupants inside. Upon arrival crew reported a Cadillac Escalade approximately 150 foot off of the boat ramp. Firefighter Dan Corrigan entered [...]

C-shift Truck 2, Engine 7, Battalion 1 and Battalion 6 responded to a MVA at the interesection of 189 and 85 near Eglins main gate. A sandrail/dune buggy was approaching the intersection when the light changed and his brakes failed. This resulted in a T-bone collision with the sandrail driver suffering a broken leg and [...]

C-shift downtown crews rescued one of our feline customers today…Daily News ran the story here. No job too big or small for our City Firefighters! FF Dan Corrigan FF Crystal Adams

Last 2 shifts have been busy ones with working dwelling fires on both the B & the A. E-7 & T-6 both assisted OCW on the B fire which was a commercial occupancy fire and the A which was a residential dwelling & just so happened to be during last nights City budget meeting. Check [...]