Welcome!

Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Services District No.1 to ensure that our businesses, residents and guests are, and remain safe while conducting business, living, and traveling throughout the District.

 

Goals

• With life safety being of the utmost importance, we will focus on a standardized level of training. Standardized training will help us ensure that responders arrive at, and return from requests for service that they answer in an effective and efficient manner, safely.
  
  
• Our second priority shall be to focus on incident stabilization. We will achieve this by ensuring a standardized approach to apparatus response, which will assist Incident Commanders in understanding what resources are responding, and what additional resources may be needed to ensure that incident stabilization is achieved.
  
  
• Property conservation is our next priority, and we will focus on developing a comprehensive prevention program to meet this goal. This program shall focus on creating a proactive approach, as opposed to reactive. We will reinforce this approach with a comprehensive hazard risk analysis, which will identify areas of concern and resources that would be needed prior to the response. In addition, we will develop a community education program that allows prevention efforts to be taught in the school systems, along with providing smoke detectors and teaching other prevention methods to homeowners throughout the district at little to no expense to them.

Bastrop County ESD No. 1 and all contracting fire departments have been awarded an ISO rating of 3/10.  This new rating will become effective 8/1/2010.  Official notification was made on March 11th.  This will provide up to a 40.4% REDUCTION in home owner's insurance rates.  The Texas Department of Insurance provides additional information on what this means for our community.  More ISO information can be found here.

Meetings

The commissioners of Bastrop County ESD No. 1 meet on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Five Points Fire Station in Rockne, Texas. The fire station is located on Fohn Rd. just east of the intersection of FM 20 and Fohn Rd. All meetings are open to the public and residents living in the district are encouraged to attend.

Positive Pressure Ventilation Symposium Announced

Bastrop County ESD No. 1 will host the first ever Positive Pressure Ventilation Symposium on October 8th, 2010 at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort and Spa in Lost Pines, Texas.  Click here for registration details and additional information.

Interested in Volunteering?

Do you want to know more?  Are you interested in volunteering?  The first step is to download and complete an application for membership.  If you have further questions, please contact us here.

Now Hiring

Bastrop County ESD No. 1 is looking to add another member to our team.  Are you interested in helping your community?  For a detail job description, click here.

Bastrop County ESD No. 1 provides an excellent benefits package including a flexible health plan, retirement program, and vacation and holiday time.  If you are interested in career opportunities at Bastrop County ESD No. 1, please complete and submit an application.

Principals only, please.  Bastrop County ESD No. 1 is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a drug and alcohol free environment.  Any offer of employment will be contingent upon the results of a background investigation and successfully meeting other district eligibility requirements.

Notice of Public Hearing on Tax Increase