Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal
| Operational area | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Agency overview | |
| Established | 2002 |
| Annual calls | 118 786 (2022) |
| Employees | 2,305 uniformed 418 other & support |
| Staffing | Career |
| Fire chief | Richard Liebmann |
| EMS level | BLS |
| Facilities and equipment | |
| Stations | 67 |
| Engines | 70 (4 stations have 2 engines) |
| Trucks | 51 |
| Squads | 8 |
| Rescues | 3 |
| Website | |
| https://sim.montreal.ca/en | |
The Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM; English: Montreal Fire Department, lit. 'Incendiary security service of Montreal') is responsible for fire and rescue operations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. EMS first-response has been available in limited areas since 1976 and to the entire service area since 2009. The SIM is the 7th largest fire department in North America. The department offers Technical rescue capacity from the Technical Rescue Group (GST) (Stations 13, 27 and 47), witch work together on Hi-Angle,collapse, confined and heavy rescue/ extrication The GST also structural evaluation during fire operations in support of command and fire suppression teams GST rescue consist of stations 13 ( units 213 & 613), station 27 (227 & 627) and station 47 (units 247,647, 947) the 200 units are engines/ squads, the 600 units are mid size Rescue squads and unit 947 is a rescue tender for collapse and heavy rescue equipment, hazmat response (Station 29 and 65), ice rescue (stations 15, 35, 38, 57 and 64) and nautical rescue (stations 14, 15, 35, 38, 55, 57, 64 and 66).