Our Department

CAL FIRE/TCFD manages approximately 90 active volunteer firefighters and 200 career firefighters and support staff. There are fifteen fire stations strategically located throughout Tehama County. Four fire stations are staffed with career and volunteer personnel and eleven fire stations are staffed with all volunteer personnel only.

CAL FIRE/TCFD operates 35 fire engines, 9 water tenders, 5 rescue squads, one light/air apparatus, and several support vehicles. CAL FIRE/TCFD maintains a Hazardous Materials Decontamination trailer as part of the Shasta Cascade Hazardous Materials Response Team (SCHMRT) and a Mass Casualty incident trailer used for county wide incidents. CAL FIRE/TCFD has six career firefighters assigned as members of a the SCHMRT hazardous materials response team.