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The Fire Department provides a comprehensive fire service program, inspects structures for fire code compliance, conducts public service information and fire prevention programs, provides a training program for the City Fire Fighters, and maintains all fire fighting equipment.

The City of Burlington Fire Department is a combination department with up to fifty-one volunteer and four career firefighters.  The department is housed in a city-owned building with the Burlington Area Rescue Squad, a non-profit volunteer rescue/ambulance service.

Our fire department is one of the few departments in the state with an ISO Class 3 rating. Class 3 is a very good rating for a fire department and indicates the department is well staffed, equipped and trained.  In addition to providing excellent fire call response, an additional benefit of the department achieving this rating is a reduction in fire insurance rates to business and residential property owners.

In coordination with hundreds of other fire departments located in S.E. Wisconsin and N.E. Illinois, we are members of MABAS, Division 102, a Mutual Aid Box Alarm System that provides an orderly move of equipment to the scene of large scale fires, accidents or other incidents.