Plantation Fire Department

A Message From the Fire Chief

Chief Robert S. PudneyWelcome to the Plantation Fire Department website. Please make yourself at home as you scan through our various pages and learn about the many facets and faces of the Plantation Fire Department. The Plantation Fire Department is a rather unique organization that, much like the City we serve, is both diverse and unique in its make-up.

The Plantation Fire Department is classified as a Combination department. This means part of our staff is career employees and part is volunteers. In fact, with more than 250 members, we are the largest, single-municipality volunteer fire department in the State of Florida.

In some respects, we operate very much like a large, urban fire department. However, being volunteer, we are able to maintain the hometown, Neighbor Helping Neighbor spirit that has made the City of Plantation such a wonderful place to live, work and play.

So relax, spend some time with us, clicking through our pages and learn more about what we do, and about the most important aspect of the Plantation Fire Department ... our people. They truly are our family.


Joe Harris
Fire Chief