Fireside Medics, LLC

Fireside Medics, LLC is a woman-owned small business based in Durango, Colorado that specializes in providing medical support services for wildland firefighting and emergency response efforts. As a provider of on-site medical care, the company deploys emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and medical supplies to remote fire lines and base camps.

Through several recent federal contract awards from the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region and National Interagency Fire Center, Fireside Medics has delivered advanced and basic life support ambulance services across Region 13 encompassing Colorado and Wyoming. Specific services included providing EMTs, paramedics, medical equipment like first aid kits, and emergency response capabilities to support wildfire suppression activities in Pueblo and Durango, Colorado from August through November 2023. These firm fixed price delivery orders ranged in value from $11,148 to $37,828. No set-asides or subcontracting arrangements were specified for the prime contract awards issued to the woman-owned small business.

Fireside Medics holds an indefinite delivery contract with the USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management division valued at up to $250,000 to furnish advanced and basic life support ambulance services across Region 13 through June 2028. Awarded under a total small business set-aside, this multiple award IDIQ enables the Forest Service to issue task orders for EMT and paramedic services supporting wildland fire management and emergency response operations throughout Colorado and Wyoming. To date, the agency has utilized the contract to issue delivery orders worth $37,828 for wildfire medical support in Pueblo from October to November 2023 and $35,100 for similar services in Durango in August 2023. A separate $250,000 Cosmic IDIQ was also leveraged for $11,148 and $35,100 delivery orders to Fireside Medics for wildland fire ambulance capabilities in Durango over the August to September 2023 timeframe.