Quaker Springs Fire Department 

The Quaker Springs Fire Department (QSFD) serves the rural area of the Town of Saratoga New York. The QSFD protects a 50.2 square mile area with approximately 3,420 people and 1,515 houses.  When the department first started in 1947, Mrs. King would sound the church bell for alarms which advanced to a siren and then to a pager alert system where firefighters are notified of the alarm location and nature.  

The fire district is in the fastest growing county in upstate New York and next to the city of Saratoga Springs. The population across the county is estimated to have grown 42.6 percent between 1980 and 2010. Our community has been traditionally a farming community. However the community is seeing quick growth with many new and proposed residential and commercial developments as the neighboring cities reach their building capacity. The Fire District is surrounded on three sides by major bodies of water - Saratoga Lake, Fish Creek and the Hudson River which makes it very attractive to development and suburban sprawl.

The QSFD answers approximately 100 calls a year of which 14% are fires.

There are approximately 45 members of the department with an average age of approximately 50.  13 of our members are Class A firefighters who can work the interior of a structure fire.