Area Served[]
The Mountain View Fire Department (MVFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Mountain View, located 13.5 miles northwest of the City of San Jose and 35 miles south of the City of San Francisco between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the San Francisco Bay, in the Silicon Valley of Santa Clara County, Northern California. The city is named for its views of the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. Incorporated as a city on November 7, 1902, it encompasses an area covering 12.24 square miles, and serves a population of approximately 82,376. The city of Mountain View is bordered by the San Francisco Bay to the north, the City of Sunnyvale to the east, the unincorporated community of Loyola to the south, the City of Los Altos to the west, and the City of Palo Alto to the west-northwest. Notable in the department's response area is the sprawling headquarters complex for Google.
Mutual Aid[]
MVFD has mutual aid agreements with the Palo Alto Fire Department, the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, the Santa Clara County Fire Department as well as NASA Ames Fire Department.
Department Profile[]
The Mountain View Fire Department is budgeted for over 86 personnel and organized into three divisions; Administrative inclusive of the Office of Emergency Services, Suppression, and Fire and Environmental Protection. The department has a daily staffing of 21 sworn. Mountain View's resources include five fire stations and eight front-line emergency vehicles comprised of five Type 1 engine companies, one aerial ladder truck company, one technical rescue unit, and one battalion chief vehicle, working three 24-hour rotating shifts. Each fire company is staffed with at least one firefighter/paramedic. In addition. MVFD cross staffs a hazardous materials response unit, one Type 6 wildland company, one OES Type-1 engine company, one 4x4 utility terrain vehicle, and two FEMA detection canines and their handlers. The Mountain View Fire Department is a member of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 3 (CA-TF3) sponsored by the Menlo Park Fire District. CA-TF3 is one of 28 such FEMA US&R Rescue Teams with numerous disaster response capabilities such as search and rescue, hazardous material detection and decontamination, structural collapse rescue, technical search, emergency triage and medicine, live find and human remains detection canines, and disaster recovery. Mountain View responded to over 10,000 calls for service in 2021, 75% of which were medical calls.
California Task Force 3[]
The Mountain View Fire Department is a member agency of California Task Force 3 CA TF-3)
History[]
The Mountain View Fire Department was created on April 1, 1874, when volunteer Mountain View Station Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 was formed. In the spring of 1928, the citizens living on the outskirts of Mountain View had an election to create a new fire district which resulted in the creation of the Fremont Fire District on July 11, 1928. A new headquarters station was completed in 1953 at Villa and Franklin Streets. This station replaced the station “Firehouse at Waterworks” which was dedicated in 1924. In 1958, Mountain View was the first fire department in Santa Clara County to implement a rescue unit concept. The volunteer firefighters in Mountain View were disbanded in 1964 and replaced by a fully paid professional fire department as exists today. The Mountain View Fire Department is the only fire department in Santa Clara County, and one of a limited view departments in California, to have maintained an ISO Class 1 rating.
Apparatus Roster[]
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
Fire Station 1 - 251 South Shoreline Boulevard[]
Dedicated 1995
- Engine 51 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-01)
- Truck 51 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7000 (-/-/107' Ascendant tractor-drawn) (SN#38967)
- Rescue 51 (2921) - 2009 Pierce Quantum walk-around (SN#22533 or 22794) (Ex-Rescue 1)
- Utility 51 - Chevrolet DRW 4x4
- Battalion 51 (1910) - Chevrolet Suburban
- Antique - 1917 Ford Model T
- Antique - 1930 Ford Model A (500/100)
Fire Station 2 - 160 Cuesta Drive[]
Dedicated January 1, 1959
- Engine 52 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-02)
- Engine 652 - Ford F-550 4x4 Type 6 wildland
Fire Station 3 - 301 North Rengstorff Avenue[]
Dedicated September 1961
- Engine 53 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-03)
- Cal OES 2121 - 2018 HME Ahrens-Fox 1871-SFO SMFD Model 18 Type 1 (1250/850/20F) (SN#23100) (CA#1551925) (VIN#44KFT4289JWZ23100) (Ex-OES 404)
Fire Station 4 - 229 North Whisman Road[]
Dedicated March 1968
- Engine 54 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-04)
- Utility 54 - Ford DRW 4x4 stakebed
- Battalion 151 (Reserve) (2114) - 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 (Ex-Battalion 51, ex-Battalion 18)
- Engine 152R - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-06)
- Engine 154R - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-07)
Fire Station 5 - 2195 North Shoreline Boulevard[]
Dedicated December 15, 2011
- Engine 55 - 2025 Pierce Enforcer 7010 (1500/500/30F) (SN#38968-05)
- Hazmat 55 (2920) - 2009 Pierce Quantum walk-around (SN#22794 or 22533) (Ex-Hazmat 5)
- UTV 55 -
- Truck 155 (Reserve) - 1999 Spartan Gladiator GA40M-3162 (1500/400/20A/20B/75' LTI rear-mount) (SN#9800875)
Station / Assignment Unknown[]
- 18A2 - Ford F-150 4x4 w/ canopy
- (Reserve) - 2017 Pierce Arrow XT 6710 aerial (-/-/100' HSL tractor-drawn) (SN#30346) (Shared with Palo Alto Fire Department (California))
- (Reserve) - 2009 Pierce Quantum 6700 6x4 aerial (-/-/100' tractor-drawn) (SN#21340) (Ex-Truck 51, ex-Truck 1)
- (Reserve) (2901) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-01) (Ex-Engine 51, ex-Engine 1)
- (Reserve) (2902) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-02) (Ex-Engine 52, ex-Engine 2)
- (Reserve) (2903) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-03) (Ex-Engine 53, ex-Engine 3)
- (Reserve) (2904) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-04) (Ex-Engine 54, ex-Engine 4)
- (Reserve) (2905) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-05) (Ex-Engine 55, ex-Engine 5)
- (Reserve) (2906) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-06) (Ex-Engine 154R, ex-Engine 6)
- (Reserve) (2907) - 2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (1500/500/30F) (SN#21333-07) (Ex-Engine 15?, ex-Engine 7)
- (Reserve) - 2000 Seagrave TB-50DA pumper (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#78963) (Ex-Engine 152R, ex-Engine 52 , ex-Engine 2)
- Chevrolet Tahoe 4x4 (CA#1227788) (Ex-18A1)
- Chevrolet Tahoe 4x4 (Ex-18A2)
Retired Apparatus[]
- 2000 Seagrave Marauder pumper (1500/500/2x20F) (Sold to South Oldham Fire Department)
- 1998 International 4900 / Burton's tanker (500+300/3000) (Ex-Water Tender 61)
- 1994 International 4900 / Pierce pumper (1250/750) (SN#E8725) (Ex-Engine 21)
- 1991 Seagrave Commander JT-09DH aerial (-/-/110' tractor-drawn) (SN#Y-76266) (Ex-Truck 1)
- 1991 Seagrave JB-50DH pumper (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#Y-78286) (Ex-Engine 4)
- 1991 Seagrave JB-50DH pumper (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#Y-78285) (Ex-Engine 5) (Sold to Reno County Fire District No. 8)
- 1991 Seagrave JB-50DH pumper (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#Y-78283) (Ex-Engine 3) (Sold to Reno County Fire District No. 8)
- 1991 Seagrave JB-50DH pumper (1500/500/20A/20B) (SN#Y-78281) (Ex-Engine 1)
- 1989 International 4900 / SVI / 1989 rebody walk-around rescue (Ex-Rescue 1)
- 1979 Seagrave WB-24068 pumper (1250/500) (SN#J-73826) (Ex-Engine 7)
- 1980 Ford L-700 / Hackney / 1989 rehab walk-in rescue (SN#80F25227) (Ex-HazMat 1) (Ex-Budweiser delivery truck)
- 1970 Crown Firecoach CP150-85D pumper (1500/500) (SN#F-1643) (Ex-Engine 51)
- 1969 Crown Firecoach CAR100-85D aerial (-/-/100' Maxim rear-mount ladder) (SN#F-1591) (Ex-Truck 51, ex-Truck 2)
- 1967 Crown Firecoach CP125-81 pumper (1250/500) (SN#F-1495)
- 1963 Crown Firecoach CS75-81 6x4 aerial (-/-/75' rear-mount) (SN#F-1323) (Ex-Truck 54, ex-Truck 52, ex-Truck 1)