Overview[]
The WCDES is a countywide agency that handles many duties, including: 911 dispatching & emergency communications (known as 60 Control), operating haz-mat & technical rescue teams, providing fire protection to the nearly 400-acre Grasslands county government complex in Valhalla (including a prison, a large hospital & associated medical school, a water treatment facility, the county's bus and public works garages, and many other smaller buildings), operating the county's fire training academy, providing an ALS flycar paramedic intercept service, assisting with fire investigations, and acts as the county's emergency management agency.
Apparatus Roster[]
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
Chief Robert J. Schnibbe Jr. Support Services Building - 35 Walker Road, Valhalla[]
Grasslands Fire Brigade[]
- Utility 3 - 2008 Chevrolet Kodiak / Reading
- Engine 7 - 2018 Freightliner M2 112 / Ferrara (1500/750)
- Ladder 7 - 2003 HME 1871 6x4 / Smeal (-/-/105' rear-mount)
Haz-Mat Team[]
Technical Rescue Team[]
- Rescue 77 - 2020 Spartan Metro Star / Hackney walk-around
- Utility 77 - 2000 Freightliner FL 80 6x4 / Supreme box truck collapse rescue (Ex-Syosset Fire Department) (Refurbished in 2021)
Other Apparatus[]
- Field Communications 1 - 2007 Freightliner M2 106 / Utilimaster / EME
- MEATU Unit - 2013 Thomas / Sartin medical ambulance bus
- RACES Unit - 2011 Ford E-450 / Farber command unit
- Car 2001 - 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD
- Utility 70 - 2019 Foam Chariot foam trailer
- Utility 76 - 2020 Chevrolet Express passenger
- Utility 78 - 2010 Freightliner M2 106 / Jerr-Dan flatbed tow truck
- Utility 87 - 2017 Ram 3500
- Utility 103 - 2010 Freightliner M2 106 6x4 box truck (EMS and scene support)
- Utility 177 - 2012 Ford F-750 dump truck
Fire Training Center - 4 Dana Road, Valhalla[]
- Engine 8 - 2001 International / E-One (1250/750) (Ex-Engine 7)
- Ladder 8 - 1988 Hahn / LTI (1500/400/75' rear-mount) (Ex-Croton Falls Volunteer Fire Department, ex-Ardsley Fire Department)
Retired Apparatus[]
- 2001 Spartan Gladiator / Saulsbury walk-in rescue (Ex-Syosset Fire Department, transferred to Westchester County Police Emergency Services Unit)
- 1997 Simon-Duplex D9100 aerial (2000/300/75' LTI rear-mount) (Ex-New Rochelle Fire Department)
- 1994 Ford mini-pumper
- 1988 GMC 4x4 / Pierce pumper (750/400) (Ex-Pound Ridge Fire Department)
- 1985 Chevrolet van
- 1977 Dodge / Pierce mini-pumper (250/200)
External Links[]
- Westchester County Department of Emergency Services
- Grasslands Fire Brigade
- Westchester County Department of Emergency Services Facebook page