The Sacramento Fire Department is hosting “Fire Station Open Houses” May through September.  Everyone is invited to come on out and visit with your Firefighters,  learn about the job they do, see some of the equipment they use, and how you can prevent fires and keep your family safe!  All Open Houses will take place from 2:00PM – 5:00PM.  The dates and Station locations are listed below: Continue Reading »

This Friday, April 9, 2010, at 9:00AM the City of Sacramento will break ground on Sacramento’s newest Fire Station at the intersection of El Centro Road and Arena Blvd.  Fire Station #43 will serve the West Natomas area as well as the entire City of Sacramento.  Come and join Sacramento’s leaders, Fire Chief Ray Jones, Congresswoman Doris Matsui, Mayor Kevin Johnson, Councilmen Ray Tretheway, Steve Cohn, and Robbie Waters and Interim City Manager Gus Vina for the celebration.

The Sacramento Fire Department wants to remind everyone that when you turn back your clock next weekend  (11-01-09) you should replace the batteries in all of your smoke detectors with new, fresh batteries. Continue Reading »

Since I really haven’t experienced the plight of where to sleep at night while homeless, I have to say I sympathize with this person because my thought previous to this unfortunate incident would have been that a Fire Station would be a very safe place to sleep.  This gives a whole new meaning to yielding right of way to emergency vehicles.

This morning at 4:00AM, while responding to a call, Sacramento Fire Medic #20 ran over the foot of a man who was sleeping in front of the apparatus doors at Fire Station #20. The man, who appeared to be a transient, was transported to a local hospital by Sacramento Firefighters. The accident is being investigated by the Sacramento Police Department.

This is the beginning of “Open House Season” for Sacramento Fire Department.  They have set up a schedule so that everyone will have a chance to tour their local fire department and meet the fire fighters.  Bring the kids so they can see how the whole process works, meet the fire fighters and check out all those big red trucks. 

Station Number 5 held the first one last Saturday so you might have missed it, but the open houses are scheduled once a week at different fire stations through out the city until the end of September.  The next one is scheduled for this Saturday at Station Number 30, 1901 Club Center Dr, Sacramento, CA, from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.  To check the times and dates for rest of the scheduled open houses click on this link to Sacramento Fire Department Open Houses.

Sacramento Fire Department Open House