Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue - Fire Stations

Fire Stations

(E= Engine, R= Rescue, B= Brush, T= Tanker, Q= Quint, P= Platform, LA= Light+Air,
SO= Special Operations (HazMat+Heavy Rescue), TC= Tactical (Heavy Rescue),
DC= District Chief, BC= Battalion Chief, EMS= Paramedic Supervisor, AC= Airport Captain,
D= Dragon (ARFF Crash Truck), RP= Rescue Pumper, F= Foam,
TH= TraumaHawk (Aero-Medical helicopter), RA= Rescue Airboat)

Some of the firehouses have nicknames that describe the life or types of calls run at that firehouse.
Station 23, the busiest station in the department, is known as "The Rock" because it is often a difficult place to work due to the call volume, and new members get sent there to do their "rookie" time;
Station 33 is known as "The Fire Factory" due to its notoriously high number of fires;
Station 36 is known as the "House of Pain" because of the high volume of calls including structure fires, shootings and stabbings;
Station 41 is known as "The Night Train" because they are often up all night running medical calls;
Station 55 is known as "The Fun House" because of the number of calls they run, and things can sometimes get crazy there;
Station 31 is known as "The Guardians of the Corridor", protecting the Lake Worth Corridor, and run a high volume of fire and trauma related calls as well.