Riverside County Fire Department (California)

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Riverside County Fire Department is one of the largest regional fire service organizations in California. The Department is staffed with approximately 952 career and 400 volunteer personnel, and currently serves approximately 2 million residents in an area of 7,004 square miles. The Riverside County Fire Department service area consists of the unincorporated county areas; 18 contract cities, and one Community Service District (CSD). Riverside County Fire provides paramedic ambulance transport in the cities of Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells and Indio. The rest of the county is contracted by a 911 paramedic private ambulance provider.

The RCOFD operates 95 fire stations in 17 battalions, providing fire suppression, emergency medical, rescue, and fire prevention services. The department’s service area is organized into eight divisions. The equipment used by the department has the versatility to respond to both urban and wildland emergency conditions. The RCOFD inventory includes type I paramedic engines, type II engines, type III engines, trucks, paramedic ambulances, paramedic squads, a helicopter, hazardous materials unit, incident command units, water tenders, fire crew vehicles, mobile communications centers, breathing support units, lighting units, power supply units, fire dozers, mobile training vans, and mobile emergency feeding units.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Riverside County Fire Department



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