Located in Onondaga County, just east of the city of Syracuse in the geographic center of the Town of Manlius, is the Village of Fayetteville. The village, one of four municipalities in the Town of Manlius was established in 1792 and became a thriving stop along the Erie Canal in the 1800s. The Fayetteville Fire Department was established in 1845, initially consisting of two companies - the Mechanics Hook and Ladder Company on Highbridge Street and the Hose Company on Center Street. In 1888 the Center Street station was destroyed by fire, and as a result, the two companies merged remaining a single entity ever since.

In 1924 the department purchased its first motorized apparatus, an International pumper. The Fayetteville Fire Department began providing EMS transport in 1942 with the purchase of a LaSalle ambulance. The winter of 1987 saw the arrival of the department's first aerial ladder built by LTI. And in 2017, the department currently operates two Class 1 Engines, an Aerial Ladder, a Squad, Brush Truck, 3 ALS ambulances and a Medic Car. 

In 1985 the department became combination when it hired its first employee. Since then, the staffing level has increased to include 12 full-time employees and a number of part-time employees that work hand-in-hand with an active volunteer roster of 80+ members. More commonly referred to today as Fayetteville Fire & EMS, our department provides fire suppression and EMS services - on the order of roughly 4,000 calls a year - to approximately thirty thousand residents in the Village of Fayetteville and surrounding Town of Manlius. The fire district, which is a bedroom community for nearby Syracuse, is comprised of largely residential and mixed-use commercial and industrial structures, with a few high hazard target assets as well.

Since our early days when a horse-drawn hand pumper is all that filled our buildings, Fayetteville Fire & EMS has transitioned from a small village fire department into a full service organization, providing a vast array of services to our community beyond traditional fire suppression and advanced life support, including fire prevention and education, CPR/AED training, child safety seat installation, and fire code inspections.