On Tuesday, October 7, 2003 the Bossier City Fire Department paid tribute to its two firefighters who died in the line of duty with a memorial ceremony at the Liberty Garden on the grounds of the Municipal Complex. Firefighters Larry Baldwin and Royce Glen Vogel lost their lives in September of 1963 while trying to rescue city workers who were overcome by gases inside a sewer lift station. Baldwin and Vogel died after they too were overcome while heroically attempting to rescue the workers. The ceremony was officiated by BCFD Chaplain Paul Navarra and featured a solo sung by Chief of EMS Sammy Halphen. The BCFD Honor Guard also took part as surviving family members of the fallen firefighters joined a host of firefighters and dignitaries in solemn remembrance. The ceremony took place during National Fire Prevention Week.

The Bossier City Fire Department officially opened its new Station #4 on Thursday, December 19, 2002 with a ribbon cutting and open house. The new fire station is located at 1200 Shady Grove Drive and provides residents of south Bossier City with a more centrally located fire station. The new station replaces the smaller and nearly 40-year old Station #4 on Parkway Drive. A host of dignitaries attended the ribbon cutting and open house including Bossier City Fire Chief Donnie Faith, Mayor George Dement, City Council members as well as several active duty and retired fire department personnel. Retired Fire Chief F. Maxell Smith, who served as Bossier City’s first paid fire chief for 42 years, was also in attendance. The new fire station was named in honor of Chief Smith for his 50 plus years of fire service to the people of Bossier City.

On September 25, 2002, the Bossier City Fire Department responded to a call that a man was stranded in a motorized lift basket at the city water tower on Airline Drive. The man was performing work on the water tower and became stranded about 160 feet off the ground when the basket malfunctioned. Four Bossier City firefighters certified in high angle rescue went to the top of the water tower and one of them, firefighter Dwayne Elliot, repelled down to the man, rigged him up in a harness and brought him down.