OUR MISSION

Protect lives and property in rural Washington County providing professional emergency medical and fire response, fire prevention, and continuing community education.

OUR VISION

Provide simultaneous multi-jurisdictional emergency services delivering responsive, varied, and distributed mission-ready fire, rescue, and medical capabilities that are best in class

OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Ryan D'Ambrosio
DeputyChief

Chris Rieffer

Fire Chief

Colleen Homer
Assistant Chief & Medical Training Officer

Skyler Skinner
Captain, Training Officer

Brady Homer
Captain

Hunter Wolfe
Public Information Officer

Kim Doster
Chaplain

OUR VALUES

RESPECT

We will unselfishly treat each of those we serve with empathy, consideration, and a passion to help.

LEADERSHIP

We will have the courage and integrity to shape a values-based department.

COMMITMENT

Our enduring support and engagement to each other and our fire service mission.

HONOR

Our actions will positively reflect the Fire Service and our organization at all times.

COMMUNITY

Our strength comes from uniting us all for the protection of Dammeron Valley and its citizens.

EMPOWERMENT

A reflection of our trust in leadership decision making.

DVFR FIREFIGHTER DOCTRINE

I am a Professional Fire Fighter, I was not forced to become one, I chose my place here and accepted the duty of a protector and servant of the people. I am proud of the uniform I wear. I agree and understand I have taken my place in a respected career. I know I am not yet deserving, however, I will earn the right through my performance, my conduct and my willingness to sacrifice all, to take my place in this service. I will honor all that served before me as they gave me the respect and trust I was handed, and I will always perform my duties to earn this and pass on the respect and trust in this organization. I am proud of this organization. I will do all I can to make it the most efficient, professional firefighting unit possible. I will be loyal and trust the officers under whom I serve. I will carry out orders and instructions always given to me; no matter what the task; to protect this community.

As a Firefighter, I realize that I am a member of a time-honored profession. I promise that I will do more than asked of me. I promise to keep alive the principles of Honor and Duty that I was given to uphold. No matter what threat I face, I will never disgrace my uniform, my department, or my community. I understand I will be under leaders who will, if required, place me in harm's way however will never leave me behind. They will always be with me and lead me in the fight.

l will be ready. I will be aggressive. I will always be moving to win, this I swear. I understand and fully accept that this may lead to my death. This profession exists only to protect the lives and property of this community. I will never place myself above the mission. I swear to train and perfect my ability to engage and fight any threat before me. I will never, in my honor, quit, when the public is at risk. The public demands and expects me to stand in front of them and danger. I will willingly show up, as there is no greater honor than serving others. It is who I am.

OUR DEPARTMENT

Dammeron Valley Fire & Rescue (DVFR) is a Combination department providing Fire Prevention and Response, Emergency Medical Services, and Special Tactics Rescue to the residents of Dammeron Valley and nearby communities. Dammeron Valley is located 12 miles north of St. George, Utah in unincorporated Washington County on Utah State Highway SR-18.

We operate a single, staffed fire station equipped with structural pumper, wildland fire, and rescue vehicle apparatus. DVFR has more than 50 active members providing 24-hour coverage throughout the year. The department is a leader in fire and medical training academics through its Dammeron Valley Fire & EMS Training Center where we train and certify firefighters and medical response candidates to National Registry, NFPA, and NWCG certification standards in our Fire Academy, EMT Academy, and EMT-Advanced Academy curriculum.

In 2020, DVFR was a small all-volunteer department with less than 10 members, many of whom were not certified firefighters. In the Fall of 2020, the transformation began with the hiring of a career professional Fire Chief. We applied data driven decision-making into the transformation to a combination department and responded to what the metrics and the data we collected were telling us. We transformed the workforce and organizational structure based on decentralized decision making authority for the business of running a fire agency where Officers, Firefighters, EMTs, and Administrative Members can make critical decisions. In 24 months, the department quickly grew into the professional fire and EMS agency seen today in the DVFR. We built the new DVFR from within through aggressive training and a focus on changing the volunteer-only culture that served the area for many decades.

For the future, our “Vision 2030” is a blueprint framework that will continue to disrupt the fire service along Highway SR-18 and prepare us for the oncoming growth in the next decade and beyond.

DVFR is funded directly by annual payments from Dammeron Valley residents, as well as grants, donations, and a newly established Wildland Fire Program in 2022. The Department operates under the administration of the Dammeron Valley Fire Special Service District Board.

DVFR Administrative Control Board