History of the Arlington Heights Fire Department
The Village of Arlington Heights organized a volunteer Fire Department on October 8, 1894 which had 40 members by the end of that year. The last volunteer firefighters retired from service on April 16, 1973.
In the first twenty years of the volunteer system, the Department responded to forty alarms. In the year 2009, the Arlington Heights Fire Department responded to nearly 10,000 calls.
The Village of Arlington Heights hired its first four full-time firefighters on April 28, 1957. Currently the Department has 103 shift personnel and six staff positions. Shift personnel work 24 hours at a time in three different shifts.