Welcome to the Goshen Fire Department web site. I hope you find it easy to navigate as well as informative. The web pages will be updated regularly to keep the public, as well as our members, informed of upcoming events. Please come back and visit us again to see what’s new.
The most important function of any Fire Department is prevention. Through education and inspections, we hope to prevent/reduce the occurrence of situations that produce injury, death, and destruction of property or negatively impact our environment.
The S.A.F.E. (Student Awareness of Fire Education) Program in Goshen is now in its 10th year. This program is a cooperative effort between firefighters, school principals, teachers, and students. Our S.A.F.E. Program puts trained firefighter-educators in the classroom to conduct fire safety education programs in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. Our firefighters are in the regional elementary school 5 times during each school year teaching students to recognize the dangers of fire, how to prevent it and how to escape from it. We also teach life safety lessons such as the dangers of using tobacco, holiday safety and winter ice safety. The program was originally developed and funded through a state grant. It has been expanded to include presentations to senior citizens, daycare centers and other civic groups. We hope the program continues to be as successful in the future as it is today.
The Department currently has 16 active firefighters and 2 fire police. These are dedicated individuals who give of their time and talent and ask nothing in return. We meet on a weekly basis and train at least twice a month. See our schedule of events if you would like to know what is going on and would like to join us to see what the Goshen Fire Department is all about.
