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Emergency Services


The following is a listing of Emergency Services available in the Town.  

Fire Departments:
The  Seymour Volunteer Fire Department provides fire and rescue protection for residents.  The department consists of two companies with a membership of approximately 150 volunteers.   It is managed by a fire chief and three assistant chiefs.  The fire chiefs report to the Board of Fire Commissioners whose members are appointed by the selectman.

The following fire companies provide fire protection using 12 pieces of apparatus and two chiefs' vehicles.  Click on the link to go to their websites.

Both fire companies also sponsor numerous events such as Easter Egg Hunts and taking Santa through the neighborhoods prior to the Christmas holidays.

The Seymour Fire Department also has a Dive Team which provides equipment and expertise for handling water emergencies.  In addition to working with the fire department, the Dive Team also provides a wide variety of other water rescue and recovery services, including water safety education and training.


Police Department  (203) 881-7600 non emergency number
The town is served by a full-time force of 34 officers, augmented by a part-time force of five officers.  There are two full-time civilians and five part-time civilians providing ancillary services for the department.  The department is overseen by a Board of Police Commissioners, which is responsible for establishing policies and procedures.

The department has 15 vehicles, three of which are new this year, and used by patrol, detectives and administration.  The department has a youth officer, who works with all of the town's schools and a community officer.  A school resource officer serves Seymour High School and Seymour Middle School courtesy of a federal grant. 

The Police Department conducts a number of community programs including the DARE anti-drug program in the fifth, eighth and high school grades.

Ambulance  (203) 888-8843
The Seymour Ambulance Association is the provider of all ambulance and emergency services for the town.  Founded in 1969, the association is one of the premier volunteer ambulance services in the U.S. having been chosen in 2000 as the National EMS Service of the Year by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians.  It is the mission of the Seymour Ambulance to provide and maintain an emergency medical services system which will protect, educate, and serve the residents of the town of Seymour as well as surrounding communities in a consistent and professional manner without profit and subject to all laws and regulations. 

To this end, the association's 100 volunteer members work to achieve the highest levels of standards in the emergency medical services profession as MRTs, EMTs, EMT-Is and paramedics. 

The association is the lead organization of the William King, Sr., Health and Safety Institute, providing health and safety training programs across southern Connecticut.  In addition, the association boasts the only EMS-based injury prevention programs in the U.S. in its Safe Communities Program of the lower Naugatuck Valley and its Valley-Amity Safe Kids Coalition.  These programs provide injury prevention programs such as car seat clinics, bicycle rodeos, Safe-Sitter baby-sitting programs and a variety of injury prevention initiatives locally and regionally.

Additional information about Seymour Ambulance and its programs can be found here -- 
Seymour Volunteer Ambulance Association.
 

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