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Atlanta Fire Rescue outlines FY26 budget priorities: staffing, new apparatus and stations
Summary
Atlanta Fire Rescue told City Council members it is prioritizing filling sworn vacancies, expanding its fleet and opening stations as part of its FY26 budget presentation, while flagging a 12.13% sworn vacancy rate and plans for quarterly recruit graduations.
Atlanta Fire Rescue presented its proposed fiscal 2026 operating priorities to the Atlanta City Council, emphasizing efforts to reduce sworn vacancies, expand apparatus and complete new stations while managing overtime and contractor costs.
The department said the proposed FY26 staffing and capital requests are intended to sustain a department the presentation described as maintaining an ISO Class 1 rating and completing a fifth reaccreditation cycle. Those credentials, the presenter said, “translate into the lowest insurance costs that we can provide to the citizens of Atlanta.”
Atlanta Fire Rescue’s presenter, identified in the hearing as the representative of Atlanta Fire Rescue, told council members that the combined general fund and aviation fund headcount for the department is 1,322 budgeted full‑time equivalents and that the sworn vacancy rate is 12.13 percent. “We currently have 118 recruits,” the presenter said, adding the department will hold recruit graduations quarterly through the next year and that “the next…
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