Titusville fire rescue

The Titusville Fire Department, listed in the city budget as Fire and Emergency Services, is a paid career department that reports to the city manager and splits into an operations side and a support services side.

The city's FAQ states that the Titusville department is a paid, career fire department and does not use volunteer firefighters; community volunteers fill non-firefighting roles such as receptionist, data entry, recordkeeping and logistics (Titusville fire employment FAQ). The FY2026 adopted budget's organizational chart for Fire and Emergency Services places the fire chief under the city manager, with a Division Chief of Operations over three battalion chiefs, 15 lieutenants, 15 driver-operators and 39 firefighters, and a Deputy Chief of Support Services over the fire marshal, fire inspectors, a life safety specialist and captains for training, logistics and EMS (City of Titusville FY2026 adopted budget).

The Fire Department menu in the Titusville departments directory mirrors that split, with pages for Support Services, Fire Prevention, Public Education and Outreach, Injury Prevention and Public Education, Administration and Operations, plus Apparatus, Recruitment, Annual Report, Community Volunteering and an Organizational Chart (Titusville departments directory). The 2023 annual report describes the battalion chief team as a rotation in which each member works a 24-hour shift in the leadership role (Titusville Fire Department 2023 annual report).

The city's FAQ lists four Titusville fire stations by address, Stations 10 through 13, while other city pages describe a fifth station, Station 14, so the official count differs by page.

The conflict sits even within one Titusville page. The Activities, Facilities and Equipment page says that in its four (4) fire stations the apparatus respond with Advanced Life Support capabilities, and further down says the Titusville Fire Department operates 5 fire stations on a 24/7 basis (Titusville Activities, Facilities and Equipment page). The 2023 annual report explains the fifth: it says the city approved a fifth fire station, Station 14, to be operational by the spring of 2024, and it lists delivery of the Station 14 modular building among 2023 accomplishments (Titusville Fire Department 2023 annual report). The FAQ station list still shows only Stations 10 to 13 (Titusville FAQ).

Station 11's address, 550 S Washington Avenue, is also the department address printed on the annual report (2023 annual report). Station tours are free and booked through the Public Education Office at 321-567-3804, which also arranges firefighters to speak to schools and groups in Titusville (Titusville FAQ, public education).

Titusville Fire answered 10,771 calls in 2023 with an average response time of 4 minutes 45 seconds, according to the department's 2023 annual report.

Those 2023 counts come from the Titusville Fire Department 2023 annual report, which reports the total as 10,771. The city's standing web page uses rounder language: each year the department responds to over 10,000 calls for service, and its average response time is under four (4) minutes, thirty (30) seconds (Titusville Activities, Facilities and Equipment page). The web page's figure is undated and the annual report's is the 2023 average; both are given here as published.

Beyond medical calls, the Titusville page lists hazardous materials incidents, power lines down, structure fires, vehicle accidents, vehicle fires and water rescues, along with service calls such as broken residential water lines, both inside and outside city limits (Titusville fire activities page).

In Titusville, 911 calls are answered by the Titusville Police Department Dispatching Center, a fire engine or rescue company responds, and Brevard County Fire Rescue provides the ambulance transport.

The Titusville FAQ explains that Brevard County has multiple Public Safety Answering Points; in Titusville the call reaches the police dispatching center, which also dispatches for the Titusville Fire Department, and when medical transport is needed the call is sent at the same time to the Brevard County Public Safety Department, which handles ambulance transports in the county (Titusville FAQ, fire general). A fire truck arrives on medical calls because Titusville Fire is an Advanced Life Support First Responder agency, and each station keeps licensed paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

The Titusville activities page names the county transport units that serve the area: Station 24 on south Columbia Boulevard, Station 23 at Park Avenue and South Street, and Station 22 at US1 and SR46 in Mims (Titusville fire activities page). On cost, the FAQ says fire, medical, vehicle accident and service calls answered by Titusville Fire carry no charge, while ambulance transport by Brevard County Fire Rescue does incur costs, and certain hazardous materials responses may be chargeable (Titusville FAQ).

The City of Titusville adopted $10,639,725 for Fire and Emergency Services in FY2026, of which $9,192,415 is personnel services and $1,447,310 is operating expenditures.

The figures come from the City of Titusville FY2026 adopted budget, whose personnel history shows Titusville Fire and Emergency Services at 73.0 positions in FY 2022 and notes that FY2026 added one fire inspector and three firefighter/EMT positions mid-year. The 2023 annual report states a different 2023 figure, a 2023 adopted budget of $8,115,608, which is labeled as the adopted budget while the budget book column above is FY2023 actual spending; the report also lists a 2023 Pierce fire truck and associated equipment at 1,800,000 in capital outlay (Titusville Fire Department 2023 annual report).

Titusville's five-year capital plan in the FY2026 adopted budget lists a New Fire Station at $7,176,000, along with fire tower improvements and fire apparatus storage.

In the general fund capital plan, the Titusville New Fire Station line shows $837,000 and $6,339,000 across the plan years for that $7,176,000 total, the Fire Tower Imp. line shows $927,000 and Fire Apparatus Storage shows $250,000 (Titusville FY2026 five-year capital improvement plan). The FY2026 capital outlay schedule for fire operations also funds two replacement Zetron dispatch consoles at $170,000, financed. These are planning figures in an adopted budget, not completed projects.

Jobs at the Titusville department go through the city's Human Resources Department at 321-567-3729, which supplies employment information and the application form (Titusville fire employment FAQ). Fire inspection results for a Titusville commercial business are emailed to the address given at the inspection, and reports for non-medical incidents such as a house or vehicle fire come from fire administration at 321-567-3800 (Titusville FAQ, records and reports).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the Titusville fire activities page, the 2023 fire annual report, the FY2026 adopted budget book, the city FAQ pages for fire employment, general questions, public education and records, and the departments directory.