Blood Pressure measurements are available to be performed at all Hoover Fire Department stations. Paramedics will measure your blood pressure and will record the reading on a card for a permanent record to be shown to your physician or other health care provider. We do not maintain records, it is the responsibility of the citizen to maintain the card given.

If you are in a non-emergency situation and are not having any symptoms to indicate blood pressure problems or any other medical problem, feel free to stop by your local station at most any time. Persons experiencing symptoms of high blood pressure complications or other medical problems should stay at home or your current location and call 911 for assistance. It may be dangerous to drive to a fire station with certain medical conditions.

Fire Stations respond to emergency calls and perform several duties outside of the fire station and may not be present when you come by. If no one is present at the station, please return at a later time and hopefully someone will be present to check your blood pressure. We apologize, but some emergency events are beyond our control and can not be predicted.

Emergency Phones are located at the main entrance of all stations if you do have an emergency and no one is present.

The Hoover Fire Department is pleased to be able to offer CPR courses to our community and health care providers. These classes have proven time and again that they can and do save lives.

In an effort to ensure that individuals attend who sign up for class seats, our department requires that your $15.00 registration fee is paid up front.

The Hoover Fire Department offers American Heart Association CPR Certification Classes for the general public during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Saturdays of each month. The classes are held at Hoover Fire Station 7 located at 100 Inverness Parkway (see directions in sidebar to the left of this page), which is off of Valleydale Road near Highway 280.
Please note that class size is limited and requires you to register for a class using our online system.  If you show up and are not registered, you will be denied the course that day. Also, if you register for the wrong class (i.e. you enrolled in Heartsaver and needed Healthcare Provider), you will receive certification for the class you registered for only!

For more information, contact the CPR Coordinator at woodsb@ci.hoover.al.us, or by phone at (205)444-7683.

• Residents living within the City limits of Hoover are eligible to use the Medical Alert System.
• Applications for the Medic Alert System may be completed online by clicking the link at the bottom of this page.
• Applications should be filled out completely.
• System equipment will be loaned to the user upon the receipt of a $300.00 deposit check made out to the City of Hoover.
• At the user’s expense, an RJ31 Phone Jack must be installed in the residence. This Jack is designed to ensure that the Medical Alert System will work even if the patient’s phone is off the hook. This jack should be installed in the patient’s bedroom near an electrical outlet. The application should not be submitted until the jack has been installed in the residence.
• The medical alert receiver installed in the patient’s residence will have a mechanical push button on the front to be used in the event that medical assistance is necessary. A radio transmitter pendent will be furnished for the patient to wear in the event he or she is away from the primary unit. The radio transmitter pendent is limited to a distance of approximately 100 feet from the receiver.
• The City of Hoover 911 Center receives calls from the Emergency Medical Alert System. When a call is received from the patient’s residence a Fire Department unit will be dispatched to the patient’s address and a call made to the residence for verification of the medical emergency.
• When all required forms and the user fee is received and accepted by the City of Hoover an appointment will be made to install the system. The medical alert system should be installed within 14 working days.
• Relocation within the City limits of Hoover requires prior notification before the equipment is moved.

Project Safe Place

Project Safe Place is a national crisis prevention program for children and teens. Family Connection is the provider of Safe Place services for Jefferson and Shelby counties. If a young person needs help for any reason, he or she can go to any business or public institution displaying the yellow and black Safe Place sign. Sites include fire stations, grocery stores, YMCA’s and public buildings. All sites are trained to call Family Connection ‘s 24 hour help line, and a Safe Place case worker will be immediately be sent to pick up the child or teen, assess the situation and provide assistance.

Why would a young person need Safe Place help? if he or she is a runaway, lost, in danger being abused locked out of the house, kidnapped, having trouble at home or school, avoiding a bully on a unsafe date or in the car with an unsafe or drunk driver. The program is free for any child or teen that needs help.

The Hoover Fire Department is proud to be a part of the Safe Place Community Program. Every fire station in the City of Hoover is designated a Safe Place site. To use the program, all a child or teen needs to do is enter any Hoover Fire Station and tell the Firefighter that he or she needs Safe Place help