Langley, WA – The Board of Fire Commissioners for South Whidbey Fire/EMS met to discuss the 2020 Budget for the agency. Topping the list of discussion items were challenges to service, increasing costs due to inflation, and replacing aging apparatus.

​For 25 years, South Whidbey Fire/EMS has helped Santa visit South Whidbey Island spreading holiday cheer. Santa rides in a sleigh pulled by a fire engine, visiting neighborhoods and grocery stores with holiday safety information and a candy cane treat. All routes will start at 6:00 p.m. and end between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m.

BURN BAN LIFTED MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Bayview Station 36 is one step closer to being open for business, after members of South Whidbey Fire/EMS pushed Engine 36 into the bay at the open house on August 24. The Push Back Ceremony was part of the day’s events which began with the presentation and raising of a flag which flew over the nation’s capital, by Marine Corps League Detachment 1451.

The South Whidbey Fire/EMS team begins moving into the new Bayview Station 36 over the next month. The station was built to meet a growing demand and completes the department’s final step of a 12-year-old strategic plan.

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TYPE I BURN BAN IN EFFECT AS OF 12:00 PM JUNE 15, 2019

South Whidbey Fire/EMS volunteers and staff recently assisted Sam Martin, a junior at South Whidbey High School who organized a mock fatal crash as a service project. Student actors were chosen to play “patients” injured in the crash. The event was on April 25, a few days prior to the South Whidbey High School junior- senior prom.

FREELAND, WA — South Whidbey Fire/EMS honored volunteer fire fighters and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) at its annual awards dinner on Saturday, March 16 at Useless Bay Golf and Country Club. Volunteers and staff responded to 2,697 calls in 2018, breaking records set for all previous years of emergency service provided to the South Whidbey community.

The 2019 Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Academy on Whidbey Island gets underway on January 16. This is a joint academy with 14 recruits from South Whidbey Fire/EMS, North Whidbey Fire & Rescue and the Oak Harbor Fire Department.