The Deltona Fire Department operates in the largest city within Volusia County, with an estimated population of 109,000 residents. Currently, we operate out of five stations and have 84 front-line personnel.
🚑 Deltona Deserves Full Fire-Based Transport 🚒
The Deltona Firefighters are proud to serve our community with professionalism, compassion, and dedication. Every second matters when someone needs emergency medical care and fire-based transport saves lives by ensuring fast, coordinated response from the same firefighter-paramedics who arrive first on scene.
Currently, Deltona Fire Department operates three fire-based transport units, which have proven to improve patient care and reduce response times throughout our growing city.
Recently, however, Volusia County denied Deltona’s request to add a fourth transport unit, even though our call volume continues to rise and our workload grows heavier each year.
Medic 61’s utilization exceeds 30%, while Medic 63 and Medic 64 are both approaching 25%. These are among the highest workload levels in the region, and our crews frequently respond beyond city limits to assist neighboring communities.
So far in 2025, Deltona Fire has completed 4,147 total transports — more than 50% of all patient transports originating in the city. Of those, 703 (roughly 17%) were from outside Deltona, including 216 from Orange City and DeBary, 40 from DeLand, and 447 from unincorporated county areas.
Adding a fourth unit would allow us to capture up to 70–75% of all city transports, and a fifth unit would bring that number close to 90–95%, ensuring the vast majority of our residents are served directly by Deltona Fire.
On a daily basis, Deltona transport units are dispatched into Osteen, Lake Helen, DeBary, Orange City, DeLand, and even New Smyrna Beach — reducing the number of available transport units for our own residents who call 911.
At the same time, the County has reduced some of its EMS services, introducing Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulances and Quick Response Vehicle (QRV) paramedic trucks. These changes mean that, in some cases, fire engine paramedics must ride in County EVAC units to provide advanced life support (ALS) care in a BLS ambulance if a QRV paramedic is not nearby and the patient is critical.
Because of these system changes and high call volumes, Deltona fire crews have waited 20 minutes or more for EVAC ambulances to arrive in the city to transport critical patients precious time that can make the difference between life and death.
📈 Response Time Matters:
• Deltona Fire transport units average 12 minutes total response time with 7 minutes of travel time for emergency calls.
• Volusia County EVAC averages 16 minutes total response time with 10 minutes of travel time in Deltona.
Adding additional Deltona Fire transport units will reduce response times even further, ensuring our residents get faster access to lifesaving care when every second counts.
🚩When Deltona requested the addition of a fourth transport unit, Volusia County EMS Director Mark Wolcott responded in writing, stating:
“Discussions with county leadership indicate no appetite to expand the municipal transport program.”🚩
That statement raises an important question for our community:
Who is “county leadership,” and why do they not have an appetite to provide additional lifesaving resources for residents in need?
We want to be clear, our issue is not with the hardworking Volusia County EMS personnel who serve alongside us every day. We have the utmost respect for our brothers and sisters in the field. Our concern is with administrative decisions that prevent Deltona from expanding a service for our community.
If a municipality like Deltona is ready to invest in better emergency medical services for its citizens, the county should not stand in the way. This is about local control, faster response times, and ensuring the best possible care for Deltona families.
We are also calling on our fellow fire unions across Volusia County to stand with us, to share this message and unite on this issue for the betterment of all residents within our county.
📣 How You Can Help as a resident:
If you find this concerning and want to support our cause, we encourage Deltona residents to email your City Commissioners and Volusia County Council Members.
Let them know you support Deltona Fire Department expanding fire-based transport services to better protect our community. Check the comments for the list of emails for tour elected representatives.
Your voice matters — together, we can make a difference.
We’re urging our City Commission, County Council, and community leaders to stand up for Deltona and support full fire-based transport.
Together, we can build a safer, stronger Deltona — and a stronger Volusia County. ❤️🚒
If you support faster, locally controlled emergency care, share this post and let our leaders know that Deltona deserves full fire-based transport.
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We are also pleased to announce the newly formed Deltona Fire Fighters Foundation. This is a Not For Profit 501(c) that has been developed to not only assist our firefighters in a time of need, but to work closely with various charities and civic organizations within our community. For further information regarding the Foundation please contact the Foundation’s Chair Anson Chucci through the Deltona Fire Fighters Foundation web site at DeltonaFireFightersFoundation.org