The Cincinnati Fire Department provides comprehensive emergency response services that include answering calls to fires, medical emergencies, hazardous materials incidents, explosive and hazardous devices, aircraft emergencies, situations involving weapons of mass destructions, and service requests requiring technical rescues.

The Fire Department also performs fire code enforcement, fire prevention and life safety inspections, public fire education, fire cause and origin investigations, juvenile fire-setters education, environmental crimes investigations, and a myriad of outreach programs designed to reduce death, injuries, and property damage caused by fires.