Department Profile

The Gatesville Fire Department protects a 287 square mile area of Coryell County.  This includes the City of Gatesville, 6 TDCJ prisons (with a population of about 7,500 inmates), and areas surrounding the city.  We also have mutual aid agreements with Fort Hood Fire Department, Copperas Cove Fire Department, and the seven area county volunteer fire departments in Coryell County.

 The Gatesville Fire Department answers an average of 700 calls per calendar year, with a staff of 33 full time volunteers.  We hold training sessions every Tuesday of the month with the exception of the first Tuesday of every month (which is our Business Meeting).  These sessions provide an interactive Learning management system, hands on, and classroom training taught by our own certified departmental instructors along with the help of our own apparatus.  In those training sessions we generally log over 4,000 total hours a year of training in the 31 Fire Fighting Sections recommended by the State Firefighter's and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas. Members attend many area and state wide schools through out the year. Members are certified through the SFFMA or the Texas Commission on Fire Protection from the Basic level up to the Advanced level.
   As we look to the future, we will continue to commit resources to training, allowing for a high level of service being delivered by qualified and trained personnel.  We will move forward with maintaining and updating apparatus to enhance the capabilities of our staff, in order to insure the preservation of life and property.