Message from the Fire Chief

In addition to our role of providing outstanding Fire and EMS services, our Fire Department also provides emergency response in the following specialty areas:

• Hazardous Materials

• Water Rescue

• Residential

• Commercial and Industrial Fire Protection

• Search and Rescue

• Vehicle Extrication

• Wildland Fire Suppression

The Plymouth Fire Department also houses the Indiana Department of Homeland Security District 2 Mass Casualty Incident Response Unit.

On a daily basis, the Plymouth Fire Department provides 24-hour emergency protection by our qualified and dedicated professionals, including Paramedic level care. Our Firefighter/paramedics are among the best trained and equipped in the state and hold Nationally registered Certifications along with being licensed by the State of Indiana EMS Commission. With the supervision from our Medical Directors and the Emergency Department Physicians who oversee our daily practices, we are dedicated in providing top notch pre-hospital emergency medical care to our community.

We are also very active in public fire education and prevention. We have to date educated over 30,000 elementary aged children with our fire safe house program, which has been in operation since the early 1990’s. We now have “firefighters’ that were students of the fire safe house program.

The City of Plymouth Fire Department is staffed with 13 career Firefighters and approximately 35 dedicated Volunteer firefighters who provide Fire/ Rescue protection and Advanced life support emergency medical care to the City of Plymouth and Center & West Township’s. We serve approximately 50% of Marshall County’s population, and protect just over 100 square miles and respond to an average of 2,200 emergency calls per year.

Our Fire Department also services the prominent Ancilla Catholic Community College, and the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ Ministries Campus located just west of Plymouth. Plymouth is also the home of the ever so famous Marshall County Blueberry Festival, which is held annually over Labor Day weekend.