Your Carver Fire Department is a goal-orientated organization that prides itself in providing a superior level of service to our community at the lowest possible cost to each taxpayer.

The mission statement of the Carver Fire Department is “To be a leading Emergency Service Organization by meeting or exceeding the needs of our community in Fire Prevention, Fire Suppression, and Rescue Operations” and has become the benchmark from which our goals are derived each year.

We would like to thank the residents of Carver for your support throughout 2024!

Your Carver Fire Department has continued to meet every challenge we have encountered. CFD has not missed a beat and as a Team, continues to be there for our community and each other. For that, I am extremely proud of every Officer, Firefighter, Dispatcher and their families!

2024 has also been a year of accomplishments for our Department.  Your Fire Department continues to maintain an ISO 2/2Y fire service rating through the Insurance Services Office (ISO).  This rating puts Carver Fire within the top 4% of Fire Departments across the entire nation.

With the support of our community, we recently put in service our newly rehabbed Brush Breaker 28, rehabbed the Administrative Office, Training Room, Kitchen Area, and Watch Room areas located in our Fire Station 3, rehabbed our 2008 Marine 1, and rehabbed our Fire Department Training Facility burn rooms. We are currently rehabbing our Brush Breaker 29, which will enter service in March 2025.

We graduated 4 new Carver Firefighters utilizing our state-of-the-art training facility and excellent in-house staff of certified Recruit and Station trainers and are in the process of hiring 6 new On-Call Firefighters that will graduate in May 2025.  We mitigated numerous fire emergencies within the community, averaging a 5.3 minute response time, and averaging 20 certified Firefighters responding during the daytime and 28 Firefighters in the evenings.  These accomplishments don’t just happen by themselves, but come from the support of our community and hard work from the Officers and Firefighters of your Fire Department. 

The Carver Fire Department continues to be one of the lowest funded Fire Departments in the Commonwealth, at an FY25 cost of $873,000 or about $76 per resident.  The dedication of our 86 Fire Officers/Firefighters and our 10 Fire Dispatchers are at the center of our flourishing On-Call Firefighting System that has been nationally recognized.  Our system is continuously used as a model for several Fire Departments across the country, something that we can all be proud of.

MILESTONES OF 2024

• Our Fire Department continues as an official ISO 2/2Y Department. We are proud to announce continued savings to our residents from $100 to $600 per household. 
• Currently rehabbing our 1997 Brush Breaker Apparatus 29
• Replaced our 2014 Command Car 1 with a 2024 Tahoe Command Car 1.
• Successfully managed the rehab processes and completions of our Brush Breaker 28 / Administrative Office, Training Room, Kitchen Area, and Watch Room areas located in our Fire Station 3 / Marine 1 and to our Fire Department Training Facility burn rooms.
• Successfully secured funding and awarded bids to rehab our Brush Breaker 29.
• Successfully applied for, received, and implemented a Firefighter Safety Grant and two S.A.F.E Grant totaling over $25,000.
• Applied for a FY24 FEMA Firefighter Assistance Grant for $145,000 to purchase new Wildfire PPE for all CFD Officers and Firefighters.
• Applied for a FY25 Firefighter Safety Grant for $19,000 to procure a set of Firefighter PPE and a Jaws of Life Tool.
• Put in service a new Public Safety Radio Receiving Site, Generator and Equipment Shelter in our South Carver Area.
• We have implemented a Carver High School Fire Intern Program, currently training six high school seniors in basic firefighting skills. This is a highly competitive fire intern program.
• Our Dive Team, consisting of 12 certified divers and 9 certified support personnel continue to excel, maintaining their Public Safety Dive Team Certification.
• Put in service a new underwater sonar device and underwater upgrades to all CFD Dive Team setups.
• We conducted a Department wide Live Structure Fire Simulation Trainings at our state-of-the-art Training Facility. All Firefighters were trained in live fire scenarios, search and rescue, ladder rescues and water supply operations, all under realistic conditions.
• We manage and maintain a Professional On-Call Firefighting force that excels in regards to manpower for the critical daytime responses.
• We consider ourselves innovators of training. We continually explore and employ cutting edge practices in an effort to remain ahead of the curve in regards to training and personal safety. Training classes ranged from the Live Structure Fire training at our modern Training Facility, realistic Wild Fire Trainings, Safety Officer Driving Drills, Dive Drills and numerous Real Life / Hands on Incident Drills.
• By design, we continue to be one of the lower funded Firefighter Departments in the State, ($76/resident) with approximately 1.6% of Town budget being directed to the Fire Department.
• We continue to educate children and adults with hands on Fire Prevention Programs in the subjects associated with ALICE, Fire Prevention, Babysitter and Home Fire Safety.
• We successfully managed a Public Safety Radio Upgrade Committee, a Dive Team, an Honor Guard, and a Photo Team Committee. All of these Committees are team oriented and focused on staying proactive in maintaining an On-Call Firefighting System and enhancing Public Safety in the Town of Carver.

I am extremely proud of the PRIDE and professionalism of each of our Officers and Firefighters in the performance of their duties in 2024.  Their unselfish sacrifice, dedication, and loyalty are matched only by that of their families, as they to sacrifice every time our Firefighters are called to duty.  I recognize the stress that this causes on their families and I am forever grateful for their support in allowing each one of our Firefighters to respond to help someone in their time of need.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the citizens of our community for your support and investment in the Carver Fire Department during the past year.  Your support matters and is appreciated by all of us here at CFD!

A special thank you to our Town Administrator, Glenn Cannon, all Departments and Boards of the Town for their cooperation and assistance over the past year.

We continually remind ourselves where we have come from and those people before us that got us here!

Respectfully submitted,

Craig F. Weston Fire Chief

Eric P. Germaine Deputy Fire Chief

Jesse Boyle Assistant Deputy Fire Chief