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Our Mission Statement
The Brighton Area Fire Department is dedicated to the protection of life and
property through safe work practices
and policies, training and continuous
improvement as set forth by management and administered in a professional
and courteous manner through daily interaction with our
customer.
Summary About Us
The Brighton Area Fire Department is a combination department of fulltime,
part time
and paid-on-call personnel. The Brighton Area Fire Department covers
74 square miles in its
response district, with a population of 46,000 residents from City of
Brighton, Charter township of Brighton and Genoa Township.
The Brighton Area Fire Department is staffed currently
with 86 employees.
These position are, 7 fulltime positions, Chief, Deputy Chief, two
Fire Inspectors, 2 Dayshift Supervisors, 2 Administration Assistants
and 74
paid on call / part time firefighters.
The
Brighton Area Fire Department has a dayshift program, Monday thru Friday,
6am to 6pm, that staffs a Fire Officer and 3 Firefighters. These positions
are filled by combination of fulltime, paid on call and part time
firefighters. The Dayshift program is to insure staffing during the
daytime hours when most of our paid on call firefighters are working at their
regular jobs.
The Brighton Area Fire
Department is funded by a fire millage equaling 1.25 mills from Genoa
Township, Brighton Township and the City of Brighton property taxes. The
Brighton Area Fire Department is overseen by the Brighton Area Fire Authority which is made
up of 2 board members from each municipality and one citizen. The Brighton
Area Fire Board Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every
month at 8:00am unless otherwise posted.
Current Brighton Area Fire Authority board members:
Jim Muzzin (City of Brighton), Kate Lawrence (City of Brighton), Tim Winship (Brighton
Township), Geri Harmon (Brighton Township), Gary McCrire (Genoa Township),
Jim Mortensen (Genoa Township) and Mike Corrigan (Citizen).
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