Welcome to Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department

The County Fire Department responds to emergencies and other requests for assistance, plans for and takes action to prevent emergencies and to reduce their impact, coordinates regional emergency response efforts, and educates the communities we serve. CAL FIRE a California state agency, functions as the County Fire Department under a contract with the County of San Luis Obispo, and has done so since 1930. Approximately 180 full-time state employees operate the Department, supplemented by as many as 100 state seasonal fire fighters, 300 County paid-call (PCF) and reserve fire fighters, and 120 state inmate fire fighters.

In addition, County Fire provides contract fire services to the communities of Los Osos and Avila Beach. CAL FIRE also provides local contract fire services to the City of Pismo Beach and, during non-fire season, to the community of Cayucos. Department activities are split between three Service Programs: Emergency Response, Training and Support, and Technical Services.

To serve and safeguard the people and protect the property and resources of San Luis Obispo County through education preparedness and emergency response.

The San Luis Obispo County Fire Department will exceed expectations and maintain the highest standards of preparedness, training, and emergency response.

INFORMING THE COMMUNITY

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department dispatch facility has the capacity to inform the public directly by sending an emergency phone message to each land-line phone in the county to inform persons of evacuation orders, missing persons, Amber Alerts, etc.

How do I sign up? Self Registration Portal

NEW !! Blackberry Phone Application (beta v1)

This new mobile application is available for field testing. This app is developed only for the Blackberry. It provides links to live data specific to Incident decision information such as current weather, earthquake, flooding, and incident info. We have not completed developed of this product, more functionality in the near future. To install the app on a BlackBerry device go to: cfslusite.appspot.com/static

New !! Live Incident Mapper (beta v1)

The San Luis Obispo County Fire Department is pleased to announce the development of this new mapper. This application will display Incident locations of the last 100 calls. We have created a mobile application for use also. We have not completed development of these products and there will be more functionality in the near future. Desktop Version Mobile Version

Proposal to provide Paramedic service to Avila

Benefits to Increase Level of EMS Service: Higher level of treatment to the public faster; Provides Paramedic treatment to the public before ambulance arrives; Fire Department arrives on scene before ambulance 90% of the time; The ability to improve the quality of standard care; Additional Firefighters for fire responses. Read More

The Reintroduction of Fire in the Irish Hills

The Irish Hills of San Luis Obispo County contain about 60,000 acres of sparsely populated, heavily vegetated, forest and ranch land owned by both private and public entities. CAL FIRE is using a previous fire to create anchor points for other treatment methods. Read more

2011 Coastal Incident Response Plan

This plan is to serve as a guide for the many agencies and organizations involved in coastal incidents with goal of promoting common command practices, response areas, and communications so the appropriate resources can be deployed and utilized in the most efficient and expeditious manner. Click Here

OPEN DOOR YARD SEASON ?

All burn day information is provided by APCD. For daily burn day status simply call 1-800-834-2876

Burn day information is provided on a 24-hour basis. Information for the following day is provided after 4:00 p.m.by APCD This information will include the burn day status, and whether burning is prohibited due to measurable rainfall occurring within the last five (5) days.

A link has been provided for you to determine your URL/VRL APCD boundaries click here

As of 01/01/09 All Incinerator Burning/Trash Burn Barrels are prohibited in San Luis Obispo County.

Burn Guidelines Fire Season 2012.pdf Read More

CAL FIRE PROMO VIDEO

Responding to all types of emergencies on a daily basis is the job done by 90 percent of the CAL FIRE workforce. Those emergencies take the form of wildland fires, residential/commercial structure fires, automobile accidents, heart attacks, drowning, lost hikers, hazardous material spills on highways, train wrecks, floods, earthquakes - the list is endless. CAL FIRE firefighters, fire engines and aircraft respond to an average of more than 5,600 wildland fires, and answer the call more than 350,000 times for other emergencies each year. See Video

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