Fire
Mission Statement
The mission of the Olmsted Township Fire Department is to promote, preserve, and provide as much as is practicable given current available resources, a feeling of security and safety among all persons within our jurisdiction.
It is necessary that all members of the Olmsted Township Fire Department understand and support the mission statement of our Department. Our mission gives us our legitimate basis to exist and forms the basis of our professional ethics, rules, regulations, operating policies, procedures and practices.
Our function is to deliver effective and efficient services as well as to promote a perception of being effective and efficient in the way we deliver these services, (i.e., the feeling of safety, and security).
Each employee must constantly be aware that misuse, ineffective use, or inefficient use of our resources and the public’s trust leads to citizen apathy, alienation, and eventually the loss of public confidence and our authority to exist as a public service organization.
“ As the winter season begins we would like to ask the residents of Olmsted Township to keep the following in mind. With the snow coming, we would like everyone to be safe while shoveling or snow blowing. Please pace yourselves and take frequent breaks. If you experience chest pains or severe shortness of breath please stop all activity and call 911. If you have a fire hydrant on or near your property we would like to remind people to try and keep the hydrants clear. It would be a great help to the Fire Department if residents did not pile snow in front of the hydrants, and it would be a bigger help if the residents shoveled around the hydrants. Have a great holiday season and be safe.”