Staffing of the Pebble Beach Fire Department is done under a schedule
A contract between the Pebble Beach Community Services District and the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The Pebble Beach
Community Services District owns the facility and apparatus, and the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection provides the
personnel. Apparatus at this station is for structural fire protection,
and it has no special wildland equipment or apparatus.
The closest wildland equipment is stationed at the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection station at Carmel Hill. Normal
apparatus at this station includes two type-three wildland engines and one
type one engine. This engine is under contract with the California
Department of Forestry and Fire protection, the Pebble Beach Community
Services District, and two other Monterey County Districts. All three
districts share expenses of this engine and the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection provides personnel.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection normally
increases its staffing during the summer fire season. The Pebble Beach
fire occurred prior to the normal fire season and wildland personnel had
not yet been increased.
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