It is an important department in the city and to improve its service, is going through some changes.
The Humboldt Fire Department (HFD) will be making a few improvements this year.
The first change was the purchase of a 2012 pumper/ladder truck for $581,797 to replace their old 1973 International ladder truck.
After they knew the purchase of a new truck was approved, they put the old one up for sale.
It didn't take long to sell it.
"It was purchased by McLennan Lake for $31,050," said Mike Kwasnica, regional deputy chief of the HFD.
The HFD hopes to receive the new truck by the end of January, and say goodbye to the old one soon after.
The fire department is also accepting two new volunteers into its ranks.
"We had a policy that we were allowing six members to work out of town during the day," said Kwasnica.
"With the increase of economic development in the area, we have had an increase in our regular members taking out of town jobs, which decreased our number of firefighters during the day down from what we would like it to be," he explained.
Instead of letting the firefighters that work out of the city go, the fire department and city came up with a unique solution to the problem.
"What we looked at is we have a couple of communities in the area that have firefighters working in Humboldt during the day," said Kwasnica.
He explained they asked Steve Bodnarchuk of Bruno and Paul Cockell of LeRoy if they would be interested in joining the Humboldt Fire Department in auxiliary positions, to respond to fire calls that happen during the day.
"Along with that, they will attend firefighter practice with us and do the training along with our guys," said Kwasnica. "So they will be trained on our equipment and have familiarity of how we operate and how our equipment operates."
Both men are the fire chiefs of their local fire departments, which will also be a benefit.
"Not only will it help us, it will help relations between Humboldt and the smaller communities, I think," said Kwasnica.
