Halfmoon Fire Department

What Halfmoon Fire Department does

The Halfmoon Fire Department (legal entity: Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1) is a volunteer fire department established in 1930, operating as a public safety entity under New York State law. Headquartered at 315 Middletown Road in Waterford, New York, the department provides fire protection, rescue operations, and emergency medical services (EMS) to more than 20,000 residents across a 14+ square mile coverage area. The department responds to approximately 800 fire, rescue, and EMS calls annually, staffed primarily by trained volunteer firefighters and EMTs under the leadership of Fire Chief Anthony Bonventre. Core technology is not publicly disclosed, and operations rely on conventional emergency response methods (training, tactics, physical deployment) rather than digital platforms or proprietary software. The department accepts members as young as 16, with restricted participation until age 18, and runs fire safety education programs covering smoke alarm installation, testing, and family escape planning. An active New Station Project signals ongoing infrastructure expansion to keep pace with community growth.

The department's revenue model is tax-funded rather than transactional. As a designated fire district under New York law, it is financed through local public tax revenue of the Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1, with all emergency and educational services provided free of charge to residents and visitors. There is no commercial pricing structure; "customers" are defined geographically rather than by contract. The go-to-market consists of 911 emergency response as the primary distribution channel, supplemented by community outreach for volunteer recruitment and public fire safety education. No private funding rounds, parent company ownership, M&A activity, or commercial revenue streams are reported. Financial information is not publicly disclosed. The organization is classified as a government state entity / public safety body, with a small reported headcount (7, reflecting paid administrative staff in addition to the volunteer base) and operations confined to a single jurisdiction in New York.

Name

Halfmoon Fire Department

Legal name

Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1

Website

https://halfmoonfire.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1930

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Halfmoon Fire Department, operating as the Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1, is a volunteer fire department providing fire protection, rescue, and EMS services to more than 20,000 residents across 14+ square miles in Waterford, New York.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Services

NAICS

Fire Protection (92216), Fire Protection (922160)

akta.pro primary industry

Fire & Rescue Services (Fire Suppression, Rescue) (BPAIAGAB)

Keywords

• Emergency response services
• Fire protection services
• Emergency medical services
• Rescue operations
• Fire safety education

Headquarters

HQ city

Waterford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Tax-funded emergency services: As a volunteer fire department operating within Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1, the department is funded through public tax revenue rather than direct user fees. Services are provided free of charge to residents and visitors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Halfmoon Fire Department is a volunteer fire department and public safety entity that delivers fire suppression, technical rescue, and emergency medical services (EMS) to more than 20,000 residents and visitors across a 14+ square mile area in the Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District. It responds to approximately 800 fire, rescue, and EMS calls per year and supplements emergency response with community fire safety education programs covering smoke alarm installation, testing, and family escape planning.

Product overview

The Halfmoon Fire Department is a volunteer fire department offering a unified set of emergency services including fire protection, rescue operations, and emergency medical services (EMS). The department serves over 14 square miles and more than 20,000 residents, responding to approximately 800 fire, rescue, and EMS calls annually. In addition to core emergency response services, the department provides fire safety education programs and maintains a new station project for infrastructure development. The department accepts members as young as 16 who receive rigorous training in firefighting, rescue, and EMT skills.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fire Protection Services Professional fire suppression services provided by trained volunteer firefighters to more than 14 square miles and more than 20,000 residents and their families, responding to approximately 800 fire-related calls per year as part of the Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1.
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Emergency medical response services delivered by trained volunteer EMTs as part of the department's comprehensive emergency response capabilities, available 24/7 within the fire district jurisdiction.
• Rescue Services Technical and life-safety rescue operations, including risk-managed mitigation of complex life-safety problems, delivered by trained volunteers as part of the department's unified emergency response capability.
• Fire Safety Education Community education program teaching residents and visitors about fire safety, including smoke alarm installation, monthly alarm testing, battery replacement, and family fire escape planning practiced twice per year.

Quantifiable outcome

• Responds to approximately 800 fire, rescue, and EMS calls per year

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ADT Inc. National provider of monitored fire and burglar alarms with a 24/7 dispatch center. Comparable to Halfmoon's 911-receiving and dispatch coordination, but commercial/contract rather than district-funded.
• Cintas Corporation: Large commercial services company whose Fire Protection division inspects, tests and recharges extinguishers and suppression equipment. Adjacent to Halfmoon because it supplies the compliance/equipment layer that backs any fire-response organization.
• Securitas AB: Largest security services company globally, including dedicated fire watch and life-safety patrol offerings. Comparable as a paid-services incumbent in fire-watch/patrol that sits adjacent to volunteer fire-department duties.
• APi Group: Holding company for life-safety services including fire detection, suppression and specialty contracting. Adjacent to Halfmoon through the commercial fire-protection services stack rather than municipal response.
• Johnson Controls: Global provider of fire detection, suppression and building life-safety systems. Comparable as a broad incumbent that equips fire-response infrastructure, but does not itself run volunteer fire departments.

Emerging players

• Intertek Group: Testing, inspection and certification firm with a strong fire-safety and building-compliance practice. Tangentially comparable because it certifies the equipment and standards that any fire department relies on.

Direct peers

• American Medical Response (AMR): Largest private EMS provider in the United States, delivering 911 ambulance response. Comparable to Halfmoon's EMS component because both staff EMT-level response into the same municipal 911 ecosystem.
• Acadian Ambulance Service: Privately held company providing EMS, air ambulance and fire/rescue across the Gulf South. Overlaps with Halfmoon on the EMS + rescue bundle, particularly its multi-service municipal-contract model.
• Falck Group: Global private operator of ambulance, fire and rescue services. Closest for-profit analog to Halfmoon because it delivers the same integrated fire + EMS + rescue model, just under contract rather than as a tax-funded district.

Others

• Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Building Products): Vendor of fire-alarm panels, detection and integrated building life-safety platforms. Sits in Halfmoon's ecosystem as a supplier of the detection and alarm technology underpinning dispatch and response.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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