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The City of Cape Coral Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the City of Cape Coral.

Special Operations
The Cape Coral Fire Department maintains a successful Special Operations program which includes Hazmat operations, Marine operations, Dive operations, and USAR operations.

Marine Operations
The City of Cape Coral has over 400 miles of canals, the most in the world, which poses a challenge for Cape Coral Firefighters. Additionally, the CCFD covers the Calosahatchee River and the Matlacha Pass. The Marine Team consists of 96 members and 3 boats. They respond to incidents such as fires, search and rescues, and vessels in distress, and are part of Lee County’s Marine Emergency Response Team (MERT).

Dive Operations
All firefighters are rescue swimmers. Additionally, the CCFD has 50 divers who have advanced training and use equipment such as dry suits and full face mask communications.

Hazmat Operations
The Hazardous Materials Team is comprised of 48 technicians who are trained in areas of hazard pre-planning, chemistry, event mitigation, hazard analysis, and decontamination. Their equipment includes air/gas monitors, radiation detectors, protective clothing, leak stop devices, and decontamination equipment.

USAR Operations
Recently, the CCFD joined USAR TF-6 which covers the SWFL area.

EMS
The CCFD currently consists of 97 Firefighter/ Paramedics and 127 Firefighter/ EMTs who provide EMS services to the City.

The Lee County Emergency Medical Services also provides EMS and transport services to the City. The CCFD contracts for 7 medic units to be stationed at 7 of the City's 11 stations. Additionally, LCEMS has 2 EMS stations and an additional 2 medic units in the City.

Future
The CCFD plans to add 2 more stations over the next two years. Station 12 will be located on Chiquita and will provide Fire and EMS services to the fast growing part of the City. Station 13 will be located at the intersection of Pine Island and Del Prado and will fill a gap where emergency services are needed.

Fire Station 2 is the oldest station in the City which was built in 1974. The current plans are to have it be rebuilt into a state-of-the-art facility with 3 apparatus bays for future additions to the station.

Fire station 5 is one of the only stations located outside of a flood zone. Due to this, Station 5 will be expanded to accommodate additional personnel during a storm.

The department lacks a training facility in the City limits due to previous ordinances that prohibited live-fire burning exercises. Currently, the ordinances are being rewritten to allow for a new fire training facility to better train firefighters.

Two new engines and one new ladder truck are being purchased this year in order to replace older apparatus.