Santa Clara County Fire Department (California)

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Cities Served Cupertino Los Gatos Sunnyvale San Jose Saratoga Morgan Hill Counties Served Santa Clara State or Territory California Country United States Service Area Square Mileage 1,290 Service Area Population-Residential 1,784,642

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The Department is configured into four battalion districts. First-call equipment is deployed to deliver initial fire attack and EMS services within seven (7) minutes at least 90 percent of the time. Ladder trucks are located to respond on all first and second alarms in designated urban areas. Engines respond in lieu of a truck in wildland-urban areas. A rescue or hazmat unit fills out an alarm. Brush patrols are located with trucks for "select-call" response and staffed for "patrol duty" as determined by the Burn Index (BI), measured at a Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and/or chief officer. The hazardous materials vehicle responds throughout the department and as a mutual aid resource county wide. A chief officer responds on all rescue and full alarm responses.

A standard first-alarm assignment for structure fires consists of two engine companies, a ladder truck company, a rescue or hazardous materials company and a Battalion Chief totaling fifteen (15) persons. On working fires the response is increased to three engines companies, one ladder truck company, a Hazmat and Breathing Support company, one rescue company, two Battalion Chiefs, a Safety Officer, and a Duty Investigator, totalling twenty five (25) persons. A second-alarm would add another two engine companies, one truck company, one rescue company, and an additional Chief Officer; total staffing for two alarms is then forty (40) persons. Wildland-urban interface companies are trained and equipped to provide structure protection and limited initial attack on wildland incidents. A brush alarm for vegetation fires in wildland/urban interface areas consists of two engine companies, a Type 3 engine and a Battalion Chief, totaling nine (9) persons.

Daily emergency response staffing consists of seventy (70) career fire personnel on a 24 hour shift assignment plus one (1) 40 hour Battalion Chief in Battalion 12, operating twenty one (21) pieces of first-line apparatus, plus three (3) Battalion Chief command vehicles, operating from seventeen (17) fire stations. The Department employs a form of "peak load staffing" by staffing patrols and other apparatus during high fire danger periods, during storms and anticipated flooding, for special events, etc. In daily operations during declared "Fire Season," patrols function in tandem with ladder trucks during daytime hours. This basically means that during the summer months, when the probability of a brush fire is high, the truck and patrol vehicle go out on calls as a pair. The Department also employs an automatic move-up system to provide coverage of core stations in the event of simultaneous alarms. This guarantees continuous coverage of the entire area served, should another response be required during an alarm.

All Santa Clara County firefighters are certified as EMT-1D (Emergency Medical Technicians/Defibrillator). In addition, at least one firefighter on each responding engine company is state licenced and locally accredited as a Paramedic.

The Department is a leader in emergency medical services. Members of Central (County Fire) and the Campbell Fire Department participated in the first paramedic training in Northern California in 1974. The Campbell Fire Department established the first Northern California fire department paramedic program in 1974. EMT-1 level services were provided Department-wide in 1981, EMT-D in 1990, and first-responder paramedics in December 1995.^[1]

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1. ↑ Santa Clara County Fire Department

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Activated Charcoal	Not in Scope
Adenosine	Not in Scope
Albuterol-Proventil	Not in Scope
Aminophylline	Not in Scope
Amiodarone-Cordarone	Not in Scope
Amyl Nitrite	Not in Scope
Aspirin	Not in Scope
Atropine Sulfate	Not in Scope
Benzocaine	Not in Scope
Calcium Chloride	Not in Scope
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Dextrose 25%	Not in Scope
Dextrose 50%	Not in Scope
Dexamethasone	Not in Scope
Diazepam-Valium	Not in Scope
Diltiazem-Cardizem	Not in Scope
Diphenhydramine-Benadryl	Not in Scope
Dobutamine-Dobutrex	Not in Scope
Dopamine-Inotropin	Not in Scope
Epinephrine-Adrenalin	Not in Scope
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Etomidate-Amidate	Not in Scope
Fentanyl-Sublimaze	Not in Scope
Flumazenil-Romazicon	Not in Scope
Furosemide-Lasix	Not in Scope
Glucagon-GlucaGen	Not in Scope
Haloperidol-Haldol	Not in Scope
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Promethazine-Phenergan	Not in Scope
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Terbutaline-Brethine	Not in Scope
Thiamine	Not in Scope
Toradol-Ketorolac	Not in Scope
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12 Lead Electrocardiograms	Not in Scope
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