sacramento fire department sacramento fire department the sacramento fire department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of sacramento, california. the department was first organized on february 5, 1850. it was not until march 30, 1872, when it finally became the first paid fire department west of the mississippi river. additionally, the city also provides contracted services for the pacific fruitridge fire protection district and natomas fire protection district to provide emergency services. this contracted area expands the departments response area to 146 square miles (380 km2) as they provide services to approximately 516,000 residents. sacramento fire departmentoperational areacountry united statesstate californiacity sacramentoagency overviewestablished1850annual calls109,342 (2022)employees730.5 fte (22/23)annual budget$173,100,000 (22/23)staffingcareerfire chiefchris costamagnaems levelalsiaff522facilities and equipmentbattalions4stations24engines24trucks8rescues1ambulances17tenders1hazmat2wildland3 - type 3 4 - type 6fireboats4websiteofficial websiteiaff website stations & apparatus the city itself has 20 fire stations spread across the city. it also operates out of 4 additional stations which are contracted out to the city of sacramento. in addition, there is also a reserve station. each station has a fire engine as well as other specialty rigs. all specialty rigs, such as the wildland fire engines and the hazardous material truck are cross-staffed by engine and truck personnel. there are also four boats spread across the stations for rescues in the two rivers that both run through, and border sacramento, the american river and the sacramento river, respectively. fire station number address engine company or squad company ems medic unit truck company wildland unit other units battalion 1 624 q stengine 1medic 11 2 1229 i stengine 2medic 2truck 2boat 2, water bike 1 & 2, battalion 11 3 (contracted) 7208 w. elkhorn blengine 3engine 603water tender 33 4 3145 granada wyengine 4medic 41 5 731 broadwayengine 5truck 5boat 51 6 3301 martin luther king jr. blengine 6medic 6truck 62 7 6500 wyndham drengine 7medic 7truck 7hazmat 74 8 5990 h stengine 8medic 8boat 81 10 5642 66th stengine 10medic 10truck 102 11 785 florin rdengine 11boat 11, battalion 44 12 4500 24th stengine 12medic 12ems 222 13 1100 43rd avengine 13medic 13air 134 14 1341 north c stengine 14engine 6141 15 1640 w el camino aveengine 15medic 15engine 6151 16 7363 24th stengine 16truck 16engine 3164 17 1311 bell avengine 17medic 17truck 173 18 (contracted) 746 north market blengine 18engine 3183 19 1700 challenge wyengine 19medic 19engine 619type 1 oes3 20 2512 rio linda blengine 20medic 20rescue 20, rescue 220, battalion 33 30 1901 club center drengine 30medic 30truck 30hazmat 303 43 4201 el centro rdengine 43medic 43truck 43 engine 343, water tender 433 56 (contracted) 3720 47th avengine 56medic 56 medic 256engine 656battalion 2type 3 oes 2 57 (contracted) 7927 east parkwayengine 57medic 574 60 3301 julliard drengine 60engine 6602 99 (reserve) 300 arden waysquad 299rehab 99, air 993 usar task force 7 some of the teams most notable deployments include the northridge earthquake (1994), oklahoma city bombing (1995), world trade center (2001) hurricane katrina (2005) hurricane harvey (2017) and hurricane maria (2017)