Fire Department · Career
Miami Fire-Rescue
Miami, FL · Miami-Dade County
“Excellence through Service”
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Department careers page ↗Miami Fire-Rescue serves the City of Miami, Florida, delivering fire suppression, advanced life support emergency medical care, disaster management, and fire prevention. The department was established on July 17, 1898 as a volunteer unit under the city's first fire chief, Charles H. Garthside, and grew into a fully professional force by the mid-1910s.
Today the department is budgeted for roughly 907 full-time personnel organized across three districts, with about 15 fire stations plus a training center. Its fleet includes engines, ladder trucks, quints, ALS rescue units, HazMat and USAR apparatus, and fireboats for waterfront and port response.
The department handles well over 100,000 emergency calls a year and is nationally notable as an innovator: it was the first in the country to equip all of its apparatus with two-way radios and an early adopter of fog-nozzle firefighting. It sponsors Florida (USAR) Task Force 2, a heavy urban search and rescue team deployed to major national and international disasters.
MissionTo provide effective and efficient fire prevention, fire suppression, disaster management, emergency medical care and other essential services to save lives and protect property.
The City of Miami hires firefighters through its Human Resources department; candidates apply online through the city's careers portal and the "Become a Miami Firefighter" recruitment page. Miami's uniformed firefighters are represented by the Miami Association of Firefighters, IAFF Local 587.
Firefighter trainees attend a city training academy; during the academy a trainee is paid at a rate 4.5% below pay step 1, and upon satisfactory completion is placed at step 5 of the firefighter pay range with a new anniversary date. Watch the city careers portal for open firefighter recruitments, which are announced periodically.
New hires attend the City of Miami firefighter training academy as trainees before being placed on the firefighter pay range.
How do I apply to become a City of Miami firefighter?
Apply online through the City of Miami careers portal and the "Become a Miami Firefighter" page under the city's Human Resources department. Firefighter recruitments open periodically, so check the portal for current openings.
Who represents Miami firefighters?
Uniformed firefighters and paramedics are represented by the Miami Association of Firefighters, IAFF Local 587.
What does a firefighter trainee earn during the academy?
Trainees are paid at a rate 4.5% below step 1 of the firefighter pay range while attending the training academy, and are moved to step 5 of the range after satisfactorily completing it.
What kind of work will I do at Miami Fire-Rescue?
The department is all-hazards: fire suppression, advanced life support EMS and transport, HazMat, urban search and rescue (Florida Task Force 2), technical and dive rescue, and marine/fireboat operations across the City of Miami.
How large is the department?
Miami Fire-Rescue is budgeted for around 907 personnel across three districts and roughly 15 stations plus a training center, responding to well over 100,000 calls per year.