Over the last 50 year period many improvements have kept CAL FIRE fire apparatus in the lead for state of the art developments. Thirteen passenger Crew Carrying Vehicles (CCVs) built in the 1970s have evolved into 17 passenger, code 3 equipped, fully air conditioned Emergency Crew Transports (ECTs) equipped with automatic transmissions and retarders. Crew buses were added to the fleet in the early 1960s to transport Conservation Camp crews to projects and fires. The fleet size reached 1,400 vehicles in 1961. In 1948, 61 Dodge crew trucks were added to the fire fighting fleet.įrom the beginning to the present, great changes have been made. Military surplus vehicles were widely used by CAL FIRE after WWII. In 1938 the Davis Equipment Facility was in operation and assistant rangers were given winter work building fire trucks there. By 1934 162 vehicles were in the inventory. Twenty-eight additional Ford fire trucks were acquired in 19. The "State Division of Forestry" acquired one Moreland fire truck in 1928, and four more in 1929. The fire apparatus of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) have always been an essential tool for the agency to accomplish its mission of protecting California's citizens, forest lands and urban interface from destruction by wildfire. Inspection, inventory management, and long-range planning assures that CAL FIRE staff will always have the right vehicles, and the best vehicles, to handle all of California's emergency and resource protection needs. Effective preventative maintenance and repair programs assure that these requirements are met. CAL FIRE fleet managers and equipment mechanics located statewide keep the Department's mobile fleet rolling on a daily basis.Ĭapability, safety and reliability are the essential requirements for all CAL FIRE equipment. Staff is responsible for design, acquisition maintenance, major repairs, replacement and disposal of all CAL FIRE-owned vehicles, and provides these services for local government equipment when requested. The facility is located in Davis, California, just outside of Sacramento. CAL FIRE's mobile equipment includes everything from fire engines, bulldozers, crew carrying vehicles, administrative vehicles, mobile kitchen units, mobile communications units, trailers, forklifts, construction equipment, and support units, to All Terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, and even insect control vehicles.Įnsuring that CAL FIRE personnel statewide have the very best emergency response and resource protection vehicles is the responsibility of the staff of the CAL FIRE Mobile Equipment Facility.
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