Community Services

The information in this section is a wide variety of resources available through the Falcon Fire Department and other organizations in El Paso County.  Here you can reserve a meeting room at one of the fire stations, learn about classes available from the Department, schedule a fire station tour, and learn where to go for a free blood pressure check.

That’s just the beginning.  Explore this section to learn more.

Juvenile Fire Setters

The unsupervised, experimental, mischievous or illegal use of fire by children in the United States is a major threat to personal safety and property.  The Falcon Fire Department offers an educational program for the juvenile firesetter. This program is made up of two components including a risk assessment and an educational class.  For more information about the JFS program click here - Juvenile Fire Setter Intervention

Public Meeting Rooms Available

The Falcon Fire Department makes availalbe 2 locations to accomidate non-profit community focused meeting rooms.  For more information on available times and locations click here Schedule a meeting room

Learn CPR and Basic First Aid

The Falcon Fire Department periodically offers CPR and first aid classes to our community. For class schedule and location information, call us at (719) 495-4050.

Blood Pressure Checks

The Falcon Fire Department is pleased to offer free blood pressure checks to our community.  Please stop in at Fire Station 1 located at 12072 Royal County Downs Road during regular business hours or click here for more informaiton.  Blood Pressure Checks 

Fire Station Tours

We at the Falcon Fire Department enjoying opeing the Fire House for tours to local school, church, and community groups as well as scouting organizations. Our tours include many fire and safe living messages.  If you are interested in scheduling a tour or for more information please contact us at  (719) 495-4050.

Citizen Response Team (CERT)

As of 2006 there are over 575,000 citizens living in El Paso County. In the event of a major disaster, county law enforcement, fire services and emergency services resources would be stretched beyond their capabilities.

The President has asked all counties in the United States to create a program that will support law enforcement, fire services and other emergency service personnel, and help citizens to be self-sufficient during the first critical 72 hours immediately following any type of disaster, whether natural or human-caused.

As a county, we want to be prepared to face any situation that might affect our way of life. The blizzards of the 2006/2007 holiday season, floods of 1999, the Ellicott Tornado in 2001, the Hayman Fire and events of September 11th demonstrate how important it is for us to prepare to take care of ourselves, our family and neighbors.

Sheriff Terry Maketa has directed the Emergency Services Division to design and implement the CERT Program (link to CERT schedule etc) to accomplish the goal of enhancing the safety of all El Paso County citizens.

We will provide CERT classes upon request for groups, organizations and businesses. We recommend no less than 15 students per class. For more information please call the Emergency Services Division at (719) 575-8400 or click here - El Paso County Community Emergency Response Team

"RACES" (Amature Radio)

Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States government, is part of the Amateur Radio Service that provides communication for civil-preparedness purposes only, during periods of local, regional or national civil emergencies. These emergencies are not limited to war-related activities, but can include natural disasters such as fires, floods and tornadoes.

Amateurs operating in a local RACES organization must be officially enrolled in a civil preparedness group. RACES operation is conducted by amateur radio operators using their own primary station licenses and by preexisting RACES stations. Operator privileges are dependent upon, and identical to those for the class of license held in the Amateur Radio Service.

In El Paso County RACES is integrated into the County Emergency Plan and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Their services are available to any local area governmental agency that requests it through the El Paso County Sheriff's Office Dispatch Center.

RACES volunteers receive training in a variety of topics, which make the ideal for service with governmental agencies. In addition to serving with the Office of Emergency Management, they also work very closely with El Paso County Search & Rescue, Wildland Fire Crews, Civil Air Patrol and others. For more information click here - El Paso County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service

CellULAR Phone Emergency Notification System

The El Paso-Teller E-911 Authority can contact you via cell phone with our Cell Phone Emergency Notification System. Simply register your information below, and your cell phone number will be added to our registration database.

The Emergency Notification System will call your registered phone number when a significant event occurs in the area of your registered address. If you have Caller ID on the number being called, the notification will display as "911 EVENT". The recorded message will begin with “THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM 911.”

Click here for more information Early Warning 911

No one knew you were pregnant. Now you have a baby!  What are you going to do?  

Call 1-888-510-2229 or click here for more information Colorado Safe Haven 

NEED ASSISTANCE?  - How can 2-1-1 help you?

Do you need assistance paying rent/mortgage, utilities or medical/prescription costs? Do you need food, clothing, housing/shelter, senior services or family support? Are you looking for information about community health and human services?

Pikes Peak United Way 2-1-1 partners with community non-profit agencies serving El Paso, Teller, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Lincoln and Park counties to help you find the help and services you need.

Simply dial 2-1-1 or 719.955.0742 or click here for more informaiton Pikes Peak United Way 211