UC Santa Cruz Fire Department

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UC Santa Cruz Fire Department

Established	1971
Staffing	Career
Strength	17 uniformed 1 support
Stations	1
Engines	2
Trucks	2
EMS Level	BLS
Fire chief	Charles Hernandez

The UC Santa Cruz Fire Department is the agency tasked with protecting life and property from fire and related dangers on the University of California, Santa Cruz's rural, heavily-forested campus and in the surrounding community, as well as providing limited services to UCSC's more widely-distributed, off-campus units. The department's primary responsibilities within the University are emergency response, fire protection engineering for new construction, fire prevention, public education, and disaster preparedness.^[1] The department employs an 18-member, full-time staff, comprising nine firefighters, three fire engineers, three captains, an assistant chief, a chief, and an administrative assistant.^[2] The department responds to approximately 600 incidents per year.

[edit] Notes and references

^ About The UC Santa Cruz Fire Department. UC Santa Cruz Fire Department homepage. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
^ UCSC Final 2005 LRDP Environmental Impact Report, Vol. 2, Chapter 4.12. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.

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