The Quezon City Fire Department was established together with the other departments of the newly formed Quezon City in 1939.
It had a skeletal Firefighting force and was usually augmented by the Manila Fire Department.
It was then Mayor Nicanor A. Roxas who formally appointed a Fire Chief by the name of Gaudioso Villegas. World War II came, and the Fire Services Department's control was ceded to the newly formed Japanese Government, particularly the Kempei Tai.
After the war, the national government restructured all fire services were transferred operational control to the Philippine Constabulary. It was the Metropolitan Police Force Fire Service that exercised overall control over the various fire departments of Metro Manila, including the Quezon City Fire Department. On June 16, 1952 and subsequently on August 22, 1972 by virtue of RA 537 and 6548, the QC Fire Department was placed under the operational control of the City Mayor.
The Philippine Constabulary was integrated with the municipal and city police services, thus creating the Integrated National Police. The Quezon City Fire Department was renamed Central Fire District. It retained this name until 1991 when the Bureau of Fire Protection was established, further absorbing operational control over all Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services in the Philippines.
These changes to the organization moved administrative and operational control of the Central Fire District to the Bureau of Fire Protection National Capital Region (BFP-NCR).
Central Fire District was again restructured and its name reverted to Quezon City Fire District at the dawn of the new millennia.
• Chief Gaudioso Villegas - May 4, 1949 - March 5, 1955
• Chief Vicente P Novales - January 4, 1950 - December 30, 1953
• Chief Salvador G Narcelles - January 1, 1954 - December 30, 1971
• Maj Arturo Torres PC - April 1, 1976 - April 14, 1986
• Supt Carlito Saqueton Romero BFP - January 1, 1997 - April 4, 2000
• CInsp Oscar V Villegas BFP - July 1, 2001 - July 1, 2004
• SSupt Bobby V Baruelo BFP - July 1, 2004 - February 26, 2013
• Supt Jesus P Fernandez BFP - February 26, 2013 – Present