Emergency Response and Fire Investigation

The Department of Fire Services (DFS) is pleased to announce the availability of grant funding from the FFY08 Interoperable Emergency Communications grant program to allow fire district control communications personnel to attend the Statewide Fire Mobilization Exercise to be held on March 3 - 4, 2010.

PowerPoint presentation highlighting the incident / operational support services that the Department of Fire Services has available to assist local departments.

The Regional Hazardous Materials Response Program is an innovative response system designed to provide specialized response of personnel and equipment to the 351 communities of the Commonwealth, to enable them to protect the public, the environment, and property during incidents involving a release or potential release of hazardous materials.

Our Mission is to promote and deliver exceptional operational support to the operations of the Fire Service within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by providing professional, efficient, high quality support services to the local incident commander in a timely and proactive manner.

The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS) will establish a strategic plan designed, developed, and implemented in a phased approach for training programs to meet compliance initiatives with respect to the NIMS requirements that will assist in enhancing state and local emergency response capabilities.

The Propane Gas Association of New England Emergency Response Plan / Guide and Class Room Training Program has been developed and implemented to deal with the problems of incidents involving propane (a hazardous material). In particular, the problems which occur when propane is accidentally released, either through human error, transportation accident, process up-set, fire, or explosion.

Specially trained Massachusetts State Police detectives have functioned as State Fire Marshal investigators for more than fifty years. Over the past few years significant changes have been made to the Fire & Explosion Investigation Unit's staff, structure, working protocol, and investigative resources. - Specialized Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Programs and Resources