About Us

About New Richmond and NRFEMS…

The Village of New Richmond is located along the Ohio River, approximately twenty-five minutes from downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a growing bedroom community with excellent village services and premier school system.

NRFEMS protects New Richmond and part of nearby Ohio Township with six full-time, fifteen part-time, and twenty five volunteer employees responding from two stations. Its annual operating budget is approximately $ 525,000 generated by dedicated tax levies, contract for services, and ambulance/fire/rescue service billing.

Weekday staffing at NRFEMS is three to four paid employees. For weeknights and weekends when more volunteers are available paid staffing decreases to two. Almost all paid employees and about one-third of our volunteers are certified both as firefighters and emergency medical technicians which greatly increases staff flexibility as the nature of detail dictates.

NRFEMS regularly gives and receives automatic mutual aid (AMA) to boost the number of firefighters available on acute emergency scenes. Having adequate personnel available promotes safer, more efficient emergency scene environments.

Informal, incident management assistance teams (IMAT) are used by NRFEMS and many progressive, southwestern Ohio departments to more effectively manage emergency scenes. Our IMAT consists of the chiefs of several neighboring departments who are all notified of structure fire details in New Richmond’s territory and may also be paged, as needed, for other types of details.

Emergency dispatching is by Clermont County Communications Center located at the county seat in Batavia, Ohio. Backups to it are the Union Township Police and Fire Dispatch and Northeast Communications Center. All can radio dispatch and handle 9-1-1 calls in support of each other, if needed.

Alerting of details is via Motorola Minitor V tone and voice pager by a multi-site, simulcast, VHf paging system established in May 2007 operating on radio frequency 155.175 MHz. Two-way radio communication is via a Motorola 800 Mhz., digital, trunked radio system built in 2000. Fire dispatch talk group audio is “patched” to the paging system to allow monitoring of ongoing radio traffic by personnel without a two-way radio.

The first alarm assignment for structure fires includes:

Quint 36
Engine 36
Rescue 36
Medic 36
1 AMA engine
1 AMA rapid intervention team (RIT)
1 Mini-Incident management team (IMAT)