Presidio of Monterey Fire Department

The Presidio of Monterey (POM) Fire Department provides superior customer service to the Ord Military Community and its residents, California State University Monterey Bay, as well as to the surrounding cities when requested. POM Fire Department provides a wide range of services from fire protection, fire prevention, emergency medical services, wildland fire response, hazardous materials response and mitigation, vehicle accident response, technical rescue services, public education and community awareness and fire inspections just to name a few.

POM Fire Department employs 32 full time personnel; 1 Fire Chief, 1 Assistant Chief, 2 Division Chiefs, 4 Captains, 20 Firefighters, 1 Prevention Chief and 3 Fire Inspectors. We also work with 4 Dispatchers and 1 Burn Specialist who runs the Prescribed Burn Program. We are a single house department with two fully staffed apparatus 24/7. We staff a Fire Engine (Engine 6111) with 4 personnel, a Ladder Truck with a 105' aerial ladder (Truck 6171) with four personnel, and a Chief Officer as our Duty Chief to give us a minimum staffing of 9 personnel daily. We also cross staff (switch to when needed) 3 separate wildland fire response apparatus that can and have responded all over the State of California for wild fires, a 2000 gallon water tender that delivers water to locations where there are no hydrants for our use, a Terra Torch with is basically a flame thrower and gas tank on wheels that we utilize during the annual prescribed burns, a state of the art Hazardous Materials response apparatus with highly trained personnel to mitigate hazmat incidents, and a top notch Technical Rescue apparatus that is capable of high angle/low angle rope rescues as well as confined space rescues.

In 2011 we responded to 810 incidents. Our incident response type for 2011 breaks down to 48.4% EMS, 46.05% Structural, 3.95% Hazmat, and 1.6% Wildland.