Administration

The Two Rivers Fire Department (TRFD) is a combination fire department providing emergency and non-emergency services for related fire and emergency medical service incidents. The department also supports the Manitowoc County Sheriffs Department S.O.S. Team, provides paramedic intercepts to rural services, inter-facility transports from hospitals, and mutual aid to neighboring fire and EMS departments. Personnel provide fire inspections for commercial properties along with an array of public education activities including CPR, First aid, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

The department is staffed by a total of 19 personnel; this is three shifts of five cross trained personnel (Firefighter/Paramedics) working 24-hour shifts, two eight hour per day Assistant Chiefs (one of Fire and one of Emergency Medical Services), an Administrative Assistant and the Chief. There are also 11 paid-on-call / part-time personnel utilized for support in fire and emergency medical responses. There is one fire station serving approximately 7 square miles of city property and a population of 11,217 residents. In 2021, the department responded to 2,027 calls for service.

The City of Two Rivers Fire Department is organized into divisions of operations with each operation headed by an officer, either an assistant chief or captain. The Captain’s position is responsible for oversight of training on their respective shift.