The fire service in Nepal is known by the ‘Barun Yantra Karyalaya'. The fire service started its first office in Nepal in Kathmandu, the capital city of the country in 1937 with a single ‘MORISH’ (England made) Vehicle. At that time Kathmandu valley was not linked by any motorable road so this vehicle was transported into the city by porters who carried its parts and particles on their back and shoulder from Indian boarder. Although no telephone lines were set up in the city at that time the need of the fire service was realized and was established. An iron tower was built to watch whether any part of the city was catching fire or not. As a precautionary measure the fire servicemen were sent to the areas where suspected fire could catch. Later in 1944 the fire service was extended to the neighbouring cities of Kathmandu, namely Lalitpur and Bhaktapur  with a ‘DODGE’ with Tailor pump in those cities. In 1975 the German government donated very useful seven fire engines.  Nowadays, the service has been expanded in 32 other cities of the country. The fire service in Kathmandu airport was established in 1966, now it has 137 firefighters. 

Fire service has been, however, reached only in 32 cities of the country. We have not been able to provide the longed service to the people even in those places where the offices of the service have been established due to the lack of the adequate trained manpower, economic resources and other facilities. About twenty percent of the city people have a little idea about this service. Most of the people living in the remote and rural area have not heard even the name of this service. We have not been able to disseminate the knowledge, the importance of this service to the various sections of the society. How to prevent the fire from being caught, what protection measures should be taken, how to control fire and how can we reduce the loss of life and property caused by fire each year are not known to majority of the people of the country. If fire is caught people follow the conventional method of fighting with fire. But, because of the increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, the use of chemicals, electric ties, forests, aerodrome and the construction of big buildings, the fire occurrences are increasing day by day and the conventional ways of fighting with it may not function well sometimes. Our limited capacity and resources are not sufficient to cope with these ever increasing incidents of fire.
There are annually more then +1,500 cases of fire and other disaster in the country. Thus the resources we have is not enough to meet the expenses for rescue and relief work, repair and maintenance of the machines and  purchasing new equipments, employing manpower and other facilities required for the firefighters. Firefighters have to risk their lives to extinguish the fire in normal uniform. 
In Kathmandu valley, there are about 40 firefighters engaged in the service and a very few of them are skilled and most of them have not received any proper training. The country is suffering from environmental pollution. Some of the established firefighter services are being closed because of the resource constraint and the people are deprived of it. They have to be a silent spectator of fire scene. Besides, we have the problems of fire occurrences and other disaster in the forests which destroys wild animals and the beauty of the nature too.