To make a positive difference in the place where people live, work,
and play by providing the highest level of fire and emergency
services.

We will be the leading resource for a safer community.

We will:

• Be an organization held in high esteem and enthusiastically
  supported by the community and by our strategic partners.
• Be a team who provides efficient and effective response, prevention,
  public education, and communication services and whose members are
  effective, empowered and enthusiastic.
• Be a proactive leader in emergency services with well-trained
  personnel, with a program of aggressive firefighting, risk
  reduction, and public education.
• Be a leader in Mason County in emergency medical services innovation
  and committed to the professional development of its members.
• Provide highly responsive advanced life support, basic life support,
  ambulance transport services.
• Be an organization recognized for its caring and high-quality
  service.
• Be a customer and service-oriented organization committed to
  actionable solutions that we can apply to every emergent and
  non-emergent situation we face.

We will achieve our vision through dynamic leadership, adaptability,
open communication, learning collaboration, and shared purpose.

1. DUTY

   We have chosen and sworn to serve our community, our strategic
   partners, and each other. We will ensure competence, skillfulness,
   and effectiveness in the operational environment. We are driven to
   cultivate equitable and responsible solutions to complex and
   challenging issues.</span >

2. INTEGRITY

   We will do what is right, even when it’s the hard right. We will
   think and act ethically in all aspects of department
   business.</span >

3. RESPECT

   We will be nice and kind, all the time. We affirm and elevate
   equity to all team and community members. We are always
   considerate of people’s experiences and backgrounds.</span >

4. COMPASSION

   We always operate knowing that we provide essential lifesaving
   and community-focused services under a myriad of conditions and
   that these services must be delivered in a professional,
   thoughtful, considerate, and ethical manner.</span >

5. RELIABILITY

   We will be proactive in identifying the needs of the community as
   they pertain to emergency and non-emergency services. We will
   follow through on promises and commitments. We are entrusted and
   fit to be the caretakers of publicly owned resources.</span >

6. ORGANIZATIONAL MINDFULNESS

   We will rethink fire and emergency service traditions and customs
   that do not add value to the organization. We establish team
   member well-being, safety, and health as essential for
   organizational success.</span >