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It’s time again for the years funnest Bike ride around! Click the logo for all the info concerning this years run!

A rash of  fires over the last few days here in Fort Walton area. A fire in an apartment complex on the B, trailer fire on the C and today a commercial on the A. All FWBFD assists with B being the 1st due on their fire. links to some photos from the Daily news  [...]

FT Walton Bch Professional Firefighters will be selling smoked Boston butts on Sunday March 11, 2012 all day. We will be taking pre-orders up until 3/4/12 and we will have a few for sale the day of the event. The Boston Butts will be sold for $21. Orders can be taken at the downtown station at [...]

Yesterday marked the begining of the new 48-96 shift schedule (48 hrs on duty with 96 hrs off duty) and on day 2 C-shift E7 was dispatched to a building fire in a small duplex on Hurlburt Rd. @ 4:30 this morning T-1 BC-1 reported smoke and flames showing. OCW T-1 made quick work of the room [...]

E-6 crews made quick work of a dwelling fire today a couple of blocks from 6. Thanks to OCW, MEFD, & OIFD for the help! Daily News story here

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We are sad to announce a great loss to our FD  and FF Association. Don was instrumental in organizing not only FWBFD but most of ALL surrounding FD’s in the panhandle. THANK YOU CHIEF for standing up and making a way…You will be missed! Mr. Donald Leroy Norviel, II age 67 of DeFuniak Springs passed [...]

  RAIN DATE SET FOR SEP 17TH!!!!   Register here

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