In 1991

In March of 1991, the city hired additional personnel to staff a single apparatus 24 hours days Monday through Friday and left the weekends and holidays for volunteers to cover. This staffing schedule remained for one year until the staff lieutenant transferred to the operations division which provided the personnel to staff a single two-person engine 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The department was staffed with 11 career personnel, including a fire chief with a staff assistant, a fire marshal and 24 volunteers. The Life Safety Division included the fire marshal who was responsible for performing life safety inspections and fire inspections of all new businesses within the city. All of the public education courses for the community and the "Learn Not to Burn" program also were coordinated through this division. The Operations Division consisted of 32 personnel divided into four shifts. Each shift had a driver/operator/sergeant and a volunteer corporal that were responsible for the management of their shift of eight personnel. Each shift was responsible for incident management, monthly company inspections, coordination of daily activities and administering required training courses to their shift members.