USCG Training Center Petaluma Fire Department

About[]

The USCG Training Center Petaluma (TRACEN Petaluma) is located 9 miles west of Petaluma, California and is the Coast Guard’s only west coast training center. TRACEN Petaluma is the only Coast Guard base without a waterfront and no major operational components, instead training over 1,000 students a year in preparation for their military job assignments including cooks, medics, radio operators, IT and electronic support, and others.

TCP started as a secret Army long-distance listening base during the second world war, and was transferred to the Coast Guard in 1972.

The Coast Guard Fire Department provides all-hazards emergency response to the installation as well as mutual aid to the local community. The CGFD has occasionally provided staffing and resources for out-of-county strike team assignments, and provided extended mutual aid to Sonoma and Napa counties during the Nuns, Tubbs and Kincaid fires. Staffing consists of GS-level firefighter/EMTs supplemented by active duty military members.

Ambulance service, provided by the on-installation clinic, was discontinued in 2015 and is now provided by local civilian mutual aid. TCP’s fire department provides mutual aid to the local community as the only full-time fire department in the immediate area.

In addition to standard structural and wildland firefighting, hazardous materials (technician), vehicle rescue, and basic life support emergency medical services capabilities, TCP’s fire department has a low-angle rope rescue team as well as a swift and surface water rescue team.

CGFD Petaluma, known by their Sonoma County designators “TCP” and “98,” are dispatched by Base Security Forces as well as by Sonoma (REDCOM) and Marin County dispatch centers.

Apparatus Roster[]

All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.

Fire Station - 406-499 Pennsylvania Avenue[]

Utility 9800 - Ram 1500

Rescue 9832 - 2023 Ford F-550 / Rosenbauer

Engine 9862 - 2010 International 7400 4x4 / Pierce Type 3 wildland (500pto/500/?F) (SN#23507)

Engine 9882 - 2007 Pierce Velocity

Water Tender 9890 - 2020 International / Rosenbauer

"The Hard No" - 2021 12' inflatable swift water rescue boat

Retired Apparatus[]

1998 International / BME pumper (1000/500/25F) (Ex-Engine 9870) (Transferred to USCG Yard Curtis Bay Fire Department, retired 2024)

? (Ex-Water Tender 9891) (Rolled over while responding to a mutual aid call and totalled, 2020)

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