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About the Department
The Morro Bay Fire Department is a full service department that has served a diverse waterfront community since 1932. Today the department responds to approximately 1,700 incidents per year.
To accomplish the department mission, the City employs a Fire Chief, 11 career fire suppression personnel, administrative secretary, Fire Marshal, and up to 15 part-time reserve firefighters. Our firefighters are tasked with emergency planning, response, command, and mitigation of a wide variety of incidents.
Fire Personnel operate from 1 fully staffed fire station (Fire Station 53/Headquarters) located at 715 Harbor Street and 1 non-staffed fire station (Fire Station 54) located at 460 Bonita Street. These facilities house our fleet of Pierce fire apparatus.
The department has mutual and automatic aid agreements with neighboring communities. These reciprocal agreements give fire departments authority to rapidly deploy resources to areas outside jurisdictional boundaries when the need arises. Firefighter/Paramedics also respond cooperatively with the Morro Bay Harbor Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard to provide emergency services for incidents occurring offshore.
Personnel
To accomplish the department mission, the City employs a Fire Chief, 11 career fire suppression personnel, administrative secretary, Fire Marshal, and up to 15 part-time reserve firefighters. Our firefighters are tasked with emergency planning, response, command, and mitigation of a wide variety of incidents.
Fire Stations
Fire Personnel operate from 1 fully staffed fire station (Fire Station 53/Headquarters) located at 715 Harbor Street and 1 non-staffed fire station (Fire Station 54) located at 460 Bonita Street. These facilities house our fleet of Pierce fire apparatus.
Mutual Aid Agreements
The department has mutual and automatic aid agreements with neighboring communities. These reciprocal agreements give fire departments authority to rapidly deploy resources to areas outside jurisdictional boundaries when the need arises. Firefighter/Paramedics also respond cooperatively with the Morro Bay Harbor Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard to provide emergency services for incidents occurring offshore.