The Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago (CBS) provides fire protection, technical rescue services and hazardous materials response for the comunas of Santiago, Estación Central, Renca, Recoleta (Southern portion), Independencia, Providencia, Las Condes, Vitacura and Lo Barnechea, in Santiago de Chile.

The fire department consists of 22 companies, which makes it the largest in Chile.

José Luis Claro y Cruz, a well-off citizen of the city, called to meeting to form a fire company that would provide fire services to prevent such calamities as that of the mentioned church.

In El Ferrocarril newspaper published on 14 December 1863 was mentioned that a 200 people group had held a called meeting to decide to form a fire department and that the assembly, by general acclamation, elected the members of the board of directors for the future organization, including José Besa, Ángel Custodio Gallo, José Luis Claro and Enrique Meiggs.

It is located close to the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art and installed on a small square that is adjacent to the Parque Forestal, named Ismael Valdés Vergara, who was a volunteer firefighter and founder of the Fifth Company Arturo Prat.