City of Humble Fire Department
Fire EMS Division
The Humble Fire Department-EMS Division has a staff of 18personnel.
The staff
consists of an Assistant Fire Chief: Billing Clerk, and 16 Shift
personnel divided into 3
shifts working 24-hours on and 48-hours off. Each Shift has an EMS
Supervisor. Eleven
of the personnel assigned to the EMS Division are cross-trained and
certified as
Firefighter/Paramedics. The remaining Shift personnel are Paramedic
certified only. The
Department staffs 3 Medic Units 24 hours a day and has a fourth
fully equipped Medic
Unit that can be placed in service when off-duty personnel are
available and a need for
the unit exists. Humble Fire Department Medic Units are registered
with the Texas
Department of Health as Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICD) and are
equipped with the
necessary equipment to provide the highest level of care available
outside the hospital
setting. The Medic Units are required to be staffed with a minimum of
1 Paramedic and 1
EMT-Basic. Humble Medic Units are usually staffed with 2 Paramedics.
In calendar year 2003, Humble Medic Units responded to 2219 calls
for service. Over the
past S years, the EMS Division has seen an 8-10% increase in call
volume.
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