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11/04/2026

Wildland Fire

Crews are operating off Grosbeck Rd south of Haines Rd in Mayfield Twp on a wildland/woods fire. Forward progress stopped and fire is contained.

10/29/2026

Structure Fire

Crews are working in the Lapeer Meadows Mobile Home Community on Knottingham Dr in Mayfield Twp. Fire is under control. Crews are into overhaul.

10/28/2026

NATIONAL FIRST RESPONDERS DAY

Today, we recognize the men and women who answer the call when someone needs help.

Firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical personnel, and dispatchers all play an important role in keeping our communities safe.

Many of these individuals serve while balancing full-time jobs, families, and other responsibilities. Regardless of the uniform they wear or the agency they represent, they share a commitment to helping others, often during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

At Lapeer Fire & Rescue, we’re fortunate to work alongside dedicated first responders throughout Lapeer County and beyond. We see firsthand the professionalism, teamwork, and commitment they bring to every call.

To our firefighters and all those who serve alongside us, thank you for what you do for our communities.

Happy National First Responders Day!

10/25/2026

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: TRAINING TOGETHER BEFORE THE CALL COMES IN

Wednesday evening, Lapeer Fire & Rescue and Hadley Township Fire Department came together for a joint training session in downtown Lapeer.

Firefighters spent the evening working with apparatus, reviewing equipment and pump operations, and sharing knowledge between departments.

When a significant emergency occurs, it’s common for multiple fire departments to respond and work alongside one another. Training together gives our firefighters an opportunity to become familiar with each other’s equipment, capabilities, and personnel before we’re working together at an emergency scene.

These relationships matter. So does taking the time to train together.

Thank you to Hadley Township Fire Department for joining us and to all the firefighters who took time out of their evening to participate.

Different departments. Same commitment to protecting our communities.

10/23/2026

Investigation

Crews are onscene at Lapeer Community Schools CFI building. Originally reported as a building fire. Determined to be steam from a boiler. Situation under control.

10/21/2026

TRAINING IN PROGRESS TONIGHT

Lapeer Fire & Rescue and Hadley Township Fire Department will be conducting a joint training session this evening beginning at approximately 6:30 PM.

Training will take place in the parking lot off Saginaw Street, south of Nepessing Street, in downtown Lapeer.

Residents and motorists in the area may notice an increased presence of fire apparatus and firefighters.

There is no emergency. This is a planned training exercise.

Joint training provides an opportunity for neighboring departments to work together and maintain the skills needed when responding to emergencies.

Thank you for your cooperation!

10/10/2026

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN EMERGENCY IS BIGGER THAN THE LOCAL MUTUAL-AID SYSTEM?

Throughout this series, we’ve shown how automatic aid and box cards bring resources together locally.

But the system doesn’t stop at the county line.

Lapeer County is MI-MABAS Division 3305, and MABAS provides a system for participating departments to coordinate resources between divisions when additional assistance is needed.

Lapeer County maintains preplanned Out-of-Division Box Cards that can assemble organized groups of apparatus and personnel.

Our current Division 3305 resources include:

-Engine Strike Team
-Tanker/Tender Strike Team
-Brush Strike Team

A Strike Team groups similar resources together under a designated leader. A Task Force combines different types of resources for a particular mission.

The idea is similar to what we’ve discussed throughout this series: organize the resources before they’re needed.

And mutual aid goes both ways.

Lapeer Fire & Rescue also participates as a resource on neighboring Genesee County Division 3303 cards, providing another layer of regional support when needed.

For a major emergency, this system can continue expanding beyond neighboring counties and provide organized resources from elsewhere in Michigan.

But there’s another important piece:

Being listed as an out-of-division resource doesn’t mean a Lapeer fire truck automatically leaves the community every time it is requested.

Available resources and maintaining appropriate local protection remain important considerations when providing assistance outside the area.

That brings us back to the basic idea behind this entire series:

Get the right resources to the right place while continuing to protect the communities those resources came from.

Automatic aid helps build the initial response.

Box cards allow that response to grow in an organized way.

Our geographic cards determine which predetermined resources respond locally.

And MABAS provides a framework for that cooperation to expand regionally and statewide when necessary.

Hopefully you’ll never need any of it.

But the next time you see fire trucks from several different communities working together at an emergency, you’ll know a little more about why they’re there and the planning that happened long before the call came in.

Thanks for following along with our series. If there is another part of Lapeer Fire & Rescue you’d like us to explain, let us know in the comments.

https://mabasmi.org

10/09/2026

7:52pm update:
Situation under control.
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Equipment Fire

Crews are on-scene at RelyansMax Lapeer in Mayfield Township. Heater (piece of equipment) on fire. Dispatch time: 7:10pm

10/07/2026

WHY DOES ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPOND TO ONE LAPEER FIRE, WHILE A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO ANOTHER?

In Parts 1 and 2, we explained automatic aid and box cards.

Now let’s show you how we actually use them.

Lapeer Fire & Rescue’s response area is divided into eight geographic box-card areas, 2D1 through 2D8.

Each area has predetermined mutual-aid assignments.

Depending on where an emergency occurs, our cards utilize resources from neighboring departments including Columbiaville, Deerfield Township, Arcadia Township, Attica Township, Metamora Township and Elba Township, and many others.

That’s why you might see one neighboring department responding to an incident on one side of our coverage area and another department responding somewhere else.

The decision isn’t random.

It also isn’t as simple as drawing a circle around the emergency and sending every available fire truck inside it.

Geography is part of the planning, but so are the type and number of resources needed, response capabilities, water supply considerations and maintaining emergency coverage throughout the area.

As an incident grows beyond the initial response, additional alarm levels can bring predetermined resources from different departments instead of repeatedly pulling firefighters and equipment from the same community.

That’s important.

A neighboring department may be helping Lapeer with a major fire, but its firefighters still have residents and businesses of their own to protect.

Our goal is to get the resources needed for the incident while maintaining fire protection throughout the surrounding communities.

Central Dispatch and Incident Command aren’t building this system from scratch while the emergency is happening.

We’ve already planned it.

In Part 4, we’ll take the system beyond Lapeer and explain what happens when an emergency requires resources from outside the county, or when another community needs resources from us.

Have a question about what you’re seeing on our map or how the system works? Drop it in the comments.

10/06/2026

Investigation

Crews are on-scene at the Best Western. Employees reported an electrical outlet that was possibly on fire.

Address

2300 W Genesee Street
Lapeer, MI
48446

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+18106640833

Website

https://www.ci.lapeer.mi.us/fire_and_rescue/index.php

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