UC Santa Cruz Fire Department
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| UC Santa Cruz Fire Department |
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| 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. It is one of only two fire departments in the UC system, along with the UC Davis Fire Department.
The need for the Fire Department was identified in April 1971, after a fire gutted the Hahn Student Services Building, one of the first university structures on campus. The catastrophe, exacerbated by the length of time it took the Santa Cruz Fire Department to respond from its stations in town to the conflagration in the center of the relatively remote campus, led directly to the establishment of the UC Santa Cruz Fire Department, one of only two campus fire departments in the University of California system.[3]
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- ^ About The UC Santa Cruz Fire Department. UC Santa Cruz Fire Department homepage. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ UCSC Final 2005 LRDP Environmental Impact Report, Vol. 2, Chapter 4.12. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ McNulty, Jennifer (2000-11-20). "Every day is different for UCSC firefighters". Currents 5 (16).
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