Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) is the federal government department responsible for the Canadian Armed Forces. Within the DND, Canadian Forces Fire & Emergency Services provide fire protection for most military installations across Canada.
Many base fire departments are staffed by civilian DND employees. However, shipboard and air base firefighting is conducted by military firefighters.
Larger Canadian military installations are known as Canadian Forces Bases (CFB) (or Base des forces canadiennes (BFC) in French) and smaller facilities as Canadian Forces Stations (CFS) (or Station des forces canadiennes (SFC) in French). Air bases also have a numbered Wing designation (3 Wing, 11 Wing) and Army bases have a brigade designation.
The Canadian Armed Forces was itself created through the amalgamation of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) into a unified military service in 1968. Prior to that, each branch operated its own fire service. The names of the historic services were reinstated in 2011, but the fire services remain a DND function.
Canadian Forces Fire Academy[]
Military firefighters are trained at the Canadian Forces Fire and CBRN Academy located at CFB Borden, Ontario.
Military installations with on-base fire departments[]
- CFS Alert, Nunavut
- BFC Bagotville, Québec (3 Wing)
- CFB Borden, Ontario
- CFB Cold Lake, Alberta (4 Wing)
- CFB Comox, British Columbia (19 Wing)
- CFB Dundurn, Saskatchewan
- CFB Edmonton, Alberta (3rd Canadian Division Support Base Edmonton)
- CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia
- CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick (5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown)
- CFB Goose Bay, Labrador (5 Wing)
- CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia (14 Wing)
- CFB Halifax, Nova Scotia
- CFB Petawawa, Ontario (Garrison Petawawa)
- CFB Shilo, Manitoba
- CFB Suffield, Alberta
- CFB Trenton, Ontario (8 Wing)
- BFC Valcartier, Québec (2nd Canadian Division Support Base Valcartier)
- CFB Wainwright, Alberta (Garrison Wainright)
- CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba (17 Wing)
Military Installations Protected by Local Municipal Fire Departments[]
- CFB Kingston, Ontario (Protected by Kingston Fire and Rescue Services) (CFB Kingston's base fire department was disbanded in 1996. The former Base Fire Hall still exists.)
- CFB North Bay, Ontario (Protected by North Bay Fire and Emergency Services since 1994)
- CFB Gander, Newfoundland (Protected by Gander Fire Department)
Closed Military Installations[]
- CFS Armstrong, Ontario
- CFS Beaverlodge, Alberta
- CFB Calgary, Alberta
- RCAF Station Centralia, Ontario
- CFB Chatham, New Brunswick
- CFS Chibougamau, Québec
- CFB Chilliwack, British Columbia
- CFB Clinton, Ontario
- CFS Falconbridge, Ontario
- CFS Gypsumville, Manitoba
- CFS Holberg, British Columbia
- CFB Ottawa, Ontario
- RCAF Station Pagwa, Ontario
- CFB Penhold, Alberta
- CFB Picton, Ontario
- Point Edward Naval Base Fire Department, Sydney, Nova Scotia
- CFB Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
- RCAF Station Puntzi Mountain, British Columbia
- CFB Rivers, Manitoba
- BFC Saint-Hubert, Québec
- CFB Summerside, Prince Edward Island
- RCAF Station Tofino, British Columbia
- CFB Toronto, Ontario
- BFC Val-d'Or, Québec
- RCAF Station Vancouver, British Columbia