Fort Hunter Liggett Fire Department

==Area Served==
Fort Hunter Liggett is a United States Army fort surrounding the unincorporated village of Jolon, located in the San Antonio River Valley of southern Monterey County, California. The fort is the US Army Reserve's largest installation and premier training center for the Western United States. It is primarily used as a training facility, where activities such as field maneuvers and live fire exercises are performed. The Salinas Valley is the fort's northern border, the Santa Lucia Mountains bound it on the east, Los Padres National Forest on the west and the Monterey/San Luis Obispo County line on the south. The facility was named in 1941 in honor of Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett (March 21, 1857 − December 30, 1935), a senior United States Army officer whose 42 years of military service spanned the period from the Indian campaigns, the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War, to the trench warfare of World War I where he served as chief of staff under General John J. Pershing. The fort originally comprised 200,000 acres, but even at its present size of 167,000 acres, it is the largest United States Army Reserve post. Fort Hunter Liggett consists of a main cantonment area, a base housing area, a dirt assault landing strip capable of handling military aircraft up to the C-17 Globemaster, a large heliport, and a massive range complex, including several live-fire training areas.
==Department Profile==
The Fort Hunter Liggett Fire Department, established in 1940, provides aircraft rescue and firefighting, structural as well as wildland fire suppression, emergency medical services (EMS), technical rescue, hazmat response, fire prevention and inspection to the Fort Hunter Liggett community. The department is comprised of 27 civilian career firefighters who work out of a historic three-bay fire station. From 1940 until 1977, the department was manned by active-duty US Army firefighters under the supervision of a civilian fire chief. They were replaced in 1977 by civilian federal firefighters.
==History==
Fort Hunter Liggett was built in 1940 on ranch land purchased by the United States War Department in order to house a training center in support of the pending war in Europe. Fort Hunter Liggett was under the authority of Camp Roberts, California, to the southeast, until 1952, when it became a sub-installation of Fort Ord. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, the post served two purposes — as a training area for the 7th Light Infantry Division (based at Fort Ord), and as the home for the Training and Experimentation Command (USACDEC). In 2007, the Army created the Combat Support Training Center at Fort Hunter Liggett and ramped up training from roughly 300,000 man-days per year (predominately during the summer), to over 850,000 per year, year-round.
==Apparatus Roster==
===Fire Station - 7th Division Road===
Built 1915 / Renovated 1989
:Chief 8800 - Chevrolet Tahoe 4x4
:Chief 8801 - Chevrolet Tahoe 4x4
:Engine 8810 - 1988 E-One Cyclone / FTI / Federal Motors pumper (1000/500/40F) (#W45458) 
:Engine 8811 - 2007 Spartan / Ferrara pumper (1500/1000/20F) (SN#H-3495)
:Engine 8812 - 2007 Ferrara Igniter pumper (1500/750/25F) (SN#H-3493)
:Brush Engine 8831 - 2009 International 7400 4x4 / Ferrara Type 3 wildland (1000/500/10A/20B) (SN#H-3815)
:Brush Engine 8832 - 2007 International 7400 4x4 / Cascade Fire Equipment Type 4 wildland (500/1000)
:Brush Engine 8833 - 2007 International 7400 4x4 / Cascade Fire Equipment Type 4 wildland (500/1000)
:Water Tender 8841 - 2009 International 7400 6x6 / Ferrara (1250/3000/25A/25B) (SN#H-3814)
:Water Tender 8842 - 2009 International 7400 SBA 4x4 / Pierce (1000pto/1500/?A/?B) (SN#21516)
:Crash 8850 - 1986 Oshkosh P-19 4x4 / 2008 CRES rehab ARFF (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (#W45457)
:Crash 8851 - 2011 Oshkosh Striker 3000 6x6 ARFF (1950/3000/420F/500 lbs. DC)
:Brush 8852 - 2005 Chevrolet 3500 4x4 (250/500)
:Brush 8853 - 2005 Chevrolet 3500 4x4 (250/500)
:Rescue 8866 - 2000 Ford Ford F-450 / Boise Mobile Equipment walk-around air/lighting
:Paramedic 8868 - 2011 Ford F-450 4x4 / Wheeled Coach Type I ambulance
:Paramedic 8869 - 2000 Ford F-350 / Wheeled Coach Type I ambulance
:2003 Ford F-350 4x4 / Superior Steel Products (Firecon mobile flamethrower unit)
==Retired Apparatus==
:1989 E-One Cyclone / FTI pumper (1000/500/55F) (Sold to Hill College Fire Academy)
:1987 Pierce Lance pumper (1500/750) (SN#E3476) (Sold to Central Bridge Fire Department)
:198? Amertek 2500L 4x4 ARFF (1000,600HP/660/72F) (#CN4633) (Ex-Crash 8818) 
:198? Amertek 2500L 4x4 ARFF (1000,600HP/660/72F)
==External Links==
*Fort Hunter Liggett Fire Department
==Station Map==
Category:Monterey County
Category:US Army Fire Departments
Category:Military departments operating BME apparatus
Category:Military departments operating Cascade Fire apparatus
Category:Military departments operating KME apparatus
Category:Military departments operating Oshkosh apparatus (United States)
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Military Fire Departments (California)
Category:California departments operating BME apparatus
Category:California departments operating E-One apparatus
Category:California departments operating KME apparatus
Category:California departments operating Oshkosh apparatus
Category:California departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Former military operators of FTI apparatus