City of El Centro

Fire Department

< Back

Follow Us

Mission Statement

Protect life, property, and environment through mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery actions.

We accomplish our mission through:

Mitigation – Action taken to prevent future emergencies and disasters and/or action taken to minimize their effect.

Preparedness – Action taken to prepare to handle an emergency or disaster.

Response – Action taken during the emergency or disaster.

Recovery – Action taken recovering from an emergency or disaster.


Core Values:

Integrity – We hold each other accountable for adherence to a standard of high moral and ethical values.

Trust – We rely on and have confidence in the character, abilities, strength, and truthfulness of all our members.

Respect – We regard and treat each other as professionals.

Excellence – We strive to continually improve and to provide the best service possible


Motto:

“Courage to Act, Commitment to Serve”