Skip to Content
Firefighter holding a phone
Contact us
Rescuers are around the patient and talking to the patient. Rescuers are wearing safety equipment.
Instructions and forms
Helsinki City Rescue Department logo with firefighters lined up in the background.
About us
The phone is used to take a picture from smiling firefighter.
Services
Student rescuers stand in a row in the cemetery.
Helsinki Rescue School
Rescuers dress up compressed air equipments.
Work or study with us
Rescue station tower in aerial view.
History and museums
Rescuers in a fire extinguishing exercise.
Current issues

Latest news

A firefighter and the logo of the school

Applications accepted to the Helsinki Rescue School!

The application period for the rescuer course starting in autumn 2024 is open until Wednesday 3 January.
Press release Helsinki Rescue services, 1.12.2023 15:58
A woman watching a fire door.

Escape room inspections revealed only minor shortcomings

This autumn, Uusimaa rescue departments carried out inspections on escape rooms.
Press release Helsinki Rescue services, 1.12.2023 10:59
Three men cutting a hose.

The Deputy Mayor arrived on a museum fire truck

Helsinki Voluntary Fire Brigade transferred its operations to a new fire station in Jätkäsaari in early November.
Press release Helsinki Rescue services, 21.11.2023 12:35
Fire officer Harri Hopponen is Stadin brankkari 2023

Fire officer Harri Hopponen is Stadin brankkari 2023

A respected, multitalented and good leader who knows how to listen and be present. This is how the colleagues of fire officer Harri Hopponen, named Stadin brankkari 2023, describe their coworker.
Press release Helsinki Rescue services, 29.9.2023 15:29

Contact:

Central Rescue Station
Agricolankatu 15
00530 Helsinki
P.O. Box 112, 00099 City of Helsinki
Telephone exchange +358 9 310 1651, weekdays at 8–16.15
Fax: +358 9 310 30029
Email: helsinginpelastuslaitos@hel.fi
Communications email: pel.viestinta@hel.fi
Email personal: firstname.lastname@hel.fi
Location on the map

Contacts for media

Situation Centre 24/7, tel. +358 9 310 30150

On-call fire safety inspector
tel. +358 9 310 31203, weekdays at 9–11 and 12–14
palotarkastaja@hel.fi, weekdays at 9–15

Feedback
Give feedback to the Rescue Department with an electronic form.

E-invoicing
Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Division
Rescue Services
City of Helsinki
Business ID: 0201256-6
EDI code: 00370201256670
E-invoice operator: Basware Oyj
Operator ID: BAWCFI22
E-invoicing address: 00370201256670
Contact person: Finances Unit, tel. +358 40 334 1860.
More information about the e-invoicing of the City of Helsinki.