It is the vision of Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District to create a leading all-hazards emergency service organization. By developing exceptional personnel and maintaining partnerships, we will deliver outstanding service to our communities while ensuring fiscal sustainability and continuing our People First culture.

Strategic Initiatives

• Strategic Initiative #1: Continually develop the organizational Vision, Courage, and Will to envision what the future can be, along with the hunger to be unsatisfied with the status quo of now, so that we act in the present to create a future of possibilities and success for the generations that follow.

• Strategic Initiative #2: Recruit and maintain professional personnel who share our values and are dedicated to the mission and vision of CRFPD.

• Strategic Initiative #3: Develop relationships and partnerships to enable people and organizations to become educated and stay informed in order to keep our communities safe.

• Strategic Initiative #4: Develop and maintain emergency and non-emergency services that excel in the serving of our communities. CRFPD’s overall public safety mission is keeping our communities safe.

• Strategic Initiative #5: Ensure CRFPD remains a fiscally sound organization.

• Strategic Initiative #6:  Ensure that our apparatus, equipment and buildings are maintained and replaced in a well thought out, organized and fiscally prudent manner.