{"id":387,"date":"2015-07-09T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:14:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside id=\"sudbury_description_paragraph-2\" class=\"widget widget_sudbury_description_paragraph\">The Sudbury Fire Department provides fire safety and emergency medical services to the Town of Sudbury. The department responds to an average of 2,000 emergency calls and performs numerous fire prevention inspections each year. The department staffs three fire stations on a full time basis. Fire Headquarters is located at 77 Hudson Road, Station #2 is at 550 Boston Post Road (Rte. 20) and Station #3 is located at 268 North Road (Rte. 117).The department is responsible for enforcing the Fire Prevention Laws (M.G.L. Chapter 148), Fire Prevention Regulations of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (527 CMR) and local bylaws that relate to Public Safety. We inspect smoke alarms in all new homes (M.G.L. Chapter 148, Sec. 26B) and in all homes being resold (M.G.L. Chapter 148, Sec. 26F). Since 2006 we also inspect carbon monoxide detectors on home resale. The Sudbury Fire Department is also responsible for inspections of oil burners and oil tank installations, underground storage tanks that hold flammable liquids, LPG storage and commercial fire alarm and sprinkler installations. We issue permits for the storage of explosive materials such as black or smokeless powders, open burning (January 15 &#8211; May 1) and we monitor blasting operations. Additionally, we have a very active Fire Prevention Education Program. The department consists of 42 personnel: the Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief, 4 Captains, 4 Lieutenants , and 32 Firefighters. Of these 42 personnel, 33 are State Certified Paramedics, and 9 are State Certified Emergency Medical Technicians. The department also employs a civilian Office Supervisor. For information regarding our hiring process, please contact the Fire Chief.Do you have a scanner? Our radio frequency is 482.750 megahertz.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<aside id=\"related_departments_widget-2\" class=\"widget widget_related_departments_widget\"><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sudbury Fire Department provides fire safety and emergency medical services to the Town of Sudbury. The department responds to an average of 2,000 emergency calls and performs numerous fire prevention inspections each year. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/about\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about About\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}