Located near the intersection of Dominion Road in the City Central Fire District. The station was built in 1974 by the Auckland region Fire Board and served originally as a senior station for west Auckland region.

Originally two crews staffed two pumping appliances. Later eight firefighters including a senior station officer and a station officer staffed a pumping appliance, a rescue tender and a teleboom aerial appliance. With the amalgamation of the Fire Boards into the New Zealand Fire Service, Balmoral station became part of the Western region command.

In 1995 fire districts were reorganised and Balmoral joined with the Ponsonby fire station to become the Auckland Region Central Fire District. In 1998 districts were again reorganised and Balmoral is now part of the Auckland City Central Fire District, Auckland Region.

Balmoral's first pump area (where it is likely to be the first attending appliance), and area of responsibility with regards to fire safety matters, is approximately from Mt Albert Road, Mt Roskill to View Road in the city, and across from Pt Chevalier Road, Western region Springs to Greenlane Road, Epsom, an area of approximately nine square kilometres. This area covers high-density residential housing, intensive commercial blocks including the Saint Lukes shopping centre, and light industrial areas. Other significant risks include the very high number of rest homes (approximately 60) and halfway houses in Balmoral's area. The station attends around 2100 calls per year.

The station is now staffed 24 hours by four professional firefighters (with an average operational experience of 17 years per firefighter across all crews) crewing a Scania 4 fire appliance.

The duty crew also mans the Auckland Fire Region's only salvage tender appliance that supports the greater Auckland region area for salvage and flooding incidents, attending approximately 300 calls last year. A canteen unit appliance is also based at Balmoral and is manned on 24-hour call by the Auckland Region Volunteer Fire Police