East Bay Regional Park District Fire Department

==Area Served==
The East Bay Regional Park District Fire Department (EBRPD FD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the East Bay Regional Park District, a system of regional parks located within the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay, in both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, Northern California. In addition, the East Bay Regional Park District provides lifeguards for recreation swim, aquatic special events, and aquatic programs at 11 swimming areas. Facilities include 6 lakefront beaches, 2 traditional swimming pools and 3 hybrid “swimming lagoons”. EBRPD is the largest regional park system in the nation, spans 125,496 acres of open space with 73 regional parks, 55 miles of shoreline, and over 1,330 miles of trails for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and environmental education. 
===Mutual Aid===
EBRPD FD has mutual aid agreements with the CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit, the Alameda County Fire Department, the Berkeley Fire Department, the Fremont Fire Department, the Hayward Fire Department, the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, the Moraga-Orinda Fire Protection District, the Oakland Fire Department, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the Crockett-Carquinez Fire Department, the El Cerrito Fire Department, the Richmond Fire Department, the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District, and the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District.
==Department Profile==
The East Bay Regional Park District Fire Department, a branch of the EBRPD Public Safety Division, is budgeted for 32 full-time and 36 part-time / on-call firefighters, working out of nine fire stations, and providing wildland urban interface firefighting, emergency medical services (EMS), fuels management/fire hazard reduction, search and rescue, water rescue, fire investigation, code enforcement, and public education. The Fire Chief oversees the Fire Department with the help of the Assistant Fire Chief and Assistant Chief of Lifeguard Service. The administrative team also includes a secretary and an administrative analyst. The department has 14 wildland fire engines and responds to approximately 1,200 calls per year. During the prolonged hot, dry months of the summer and fall, the District's Police Department Air Support Unit teams up with the District Fire Department to provide Heli-Tac and water bucket responses to wildfires. Bambi Bucket equipment is carried on all routine patrol flights, enabling a rapid response to erupting wildfires. Annually, during the peak wildfire season between July and October, EBRPD Fire assigns one Type 6 wildland engines to Berkeley Fire Department's station 7 in the Shasta Hills. 
==History==
The EBRPD was created in 1934, and acquired its first land two years later, when the East Bay Municipal Utility District sold 2,166 acres of its surplus land. The EBRPD Fire Department was founded in 1963. In those early years the department’s role closely resembled that of the US Forest Service, with lookouts built on peaks across the region. Over the years, however, the cities of the East Bay filled the tidal flatlands and expanded into the rural periphery, growing into the margins of the wildland-urban interface. As these patterns of growth took hold, the region’s fire risk increased dramatically. The department’s pivotal moment came in 1991, when a massive conflagration blazed across the hillsides and neighborhoods perched above the Caldecott Tunnel. The fire began on October 19 on a small private parcel on Buckingham Boulevard, near the boundary of Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. Firefighters mostly contained the small blaze that first day. But the next morning, heavy winds transformed the hot spots into a rapidly spreading inferno that rained embers across the hills. The Oakland Hills firestorm, or “Tunnel Fire,” was one of the worst disasters in state history, destroying almost 3,600 homes, killing 25 people, and causing an estimated $1.5 billion in damage. 
== Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station 1 - 2501 Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Orinda===
:Engine 5661 (3311) - 2016 International 7400 4x4 / HME-Ahrens-Fox Type 3 wildland (SN#22845)
:Engine 5662 (3060) - 1989 International 7400 4x4 / BME Type 3 wildland (CA#1613701) (VIN#3HAWETAR4KL315878)
:Water Tender 5694 - International (CA#1001843)
:Engine 5699 - 2004 Ford F-450 4x4 Type 6 wildland (CA#1173365)
:Cal OES Engine 348 - 2008 HME Ahrens-Fox 1871-SFO SMFD Model 18 Type 1 (1250/850/20F) (SN#21341) (CA#1280639) (VIN#44KFT42878WZ21341)
:Rescue Gator - John Deere Gator 4x4 ATV
:Parade - Dodge Power Wagon (CA#177132)
===Fire Station 2 - 7867 Redwood Road, Oakland===
===Fire Station 4 - 18012 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon ===
===Fire Station 5 - 7000 Del Valle Road, Livermore ===
===Fire Station 6 - 5363 Alhambra Valley Boulevard, Martinez===
===Fire Station 7 - 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward===
===Fire Station 8 - 1200 Frederickson Lane, Antioch ===
===Fire Station 9 - 5755 McBryde Avenue, Richmond===
===Fire Station 10 (Headquarters) - 17930 Lake Chabot Road, Castro Valley=== 
:5615 (2992) - 2001 Ford F-150 4x4 (CA#1081694)
===Air Support Unit - 20301 Skywest Drive / Hayward Executive Airport ===
Aircraft crewed and operated by EBRPD Police Department
:Eagle 7 - 2008 Eurocopter AS350B3 AStar C/N 4390 w/ DART Aerospace litter system (Civil Registration N708PD) (Equipped with 210 gallon Bambi Bucket during fire season)
===Station/Assignment Unknown=== 
*Patrol 5614 - Ford F-250 4x4 Type 6 wildland
*5617 - Ford Expedition (CA#1512539)
*Patrol 5620 - Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 w/ Weather Guard canopy Type 6 wildland (CA#111339?)
*Patrol 5621 - 2012 Ford F-250 4x4 Type 6 wildland (CA#1373330) (VIN#1FTBF2B62CEA07804)
*Engine 5660 (2767) - International 4800 4x4 Type 3 wildland (CA#365530)
*Engine 5665 - 2006 International 7600 4x4 / West-Mark Type 3 wildland (CA#1229359) (VIN#1HTWEAZN86J390917) (Ex-Engine 5661)
*Patrol 5681 - Ram 5500 4x4 Type 6 wildland
*5683 - (CA#1116134)
*Patrol 5687 - 2001 Ford F-550 4x4 (CA#1081716) (VIN#1FDAF57F91ED17138) (Ex-5681)
*5688 (Lifeguard) -
*Water Tender 5693 - International
*Water Tender 5694 - International (CA#1001843)
*Fuels Management (3065) - 2008 Ford F-250 4x4 w/ Weather Guard canopy (CA#1116189) (VIN#1FTNF21568ED45851)
*Fuels Management 5671 -
*Ford w/ Weather Guard canopy (CA#1173370) (Ex-Patrol 5621)
*Rescue Boat - Zodiac Pro Open 550 17'2" RHIB w/ 90 HP 4-stroke Yamaha F90 outboard
==Retired Apparatus==
:1999 Ford F-550 4x4 / Gregory Truck Type 6 wildland (180/380/5A) (SN#216) (Ex-Patrol 5687)
:1998 Eurocopter AS350B2 AStar C/N 3168 (Civil Registration N996PD) (Equipped with 144 gallon Bambi Bucket during fire season) (Ex-Eagle 6) (Sold to Gazelle LLC, Missoula, MT in 2021)
:1997 Ford F-450 4x4 / General Truck Body Type 6 wildland (100/300/5A) (SN#27751) (Ex-Patrol 5681)
:1997 Ford F-450 4x4 / General Truck Body Type 6 wildland (100/300/5A) (SN#27749) (Ex-Patrol 5685)
:1996 International 4800 / General Truck Body Type 3 wildland (500/500/20A) (SN#160) (Ex-Engine 5661)
:1995 Ford F-450 4x4 / Gregory Truck Type 6 wildland (180/300/5A) (Ex-Patrol 5680)
:1991 Ford F-700 4x4 / 1992 G. Paoletti Type 3 wildland (500/500/20A) (SN#2436) (Ex-Engine 5665) 
:1990 Ford C-8000 / Westates Type 1 pumper (1000,300/800/20F) (CA#436252) (OES Engine 335 - returned to OES)
==Station Map==
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Category:Park, Nature Reserve & Resort fire departments (California)
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Category:Former operators of Westates apparatus