Contra Costa County Fire Protection District News

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced its annexation of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD). The annexation’s goal is to improve fire and emergency medical services delivery across the County, particularly in underserved east county communities, while taking advantage of efficiencies and economies of scale to do more as a result of the new organization. annexation process The move comes through an annexation process, years in the making, w...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) will announce the long-awaited annexation of East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD). A ceremony will be hosted to commemorate this event. Details follow. When: Friday, July 1, 10 a.m. Where: Brentwood City Park, 35 Oak St., Brentwood What: Con Fire will conduct a transfer of command ceremony, as well as a transfer of board oversight ceremony, marking the annexation of East Contra Costa Fire Protection District into Con Fir...

As a company officer, the day will come where you and your crew are first to arrive at what looks like the beginning of a major incident. Your Battalion Chief (BC) is delayed or diverted to other incidents, so YOU are the Incident Commander (IC). How you set the table for this incident with regard to quickly setting up the Incident Command System (ICS) is critical. And how you use your channels of communication, including the ways you communicate, will be crucial to your success. Before we jump...

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announces the completion and opening of Fire Station 86 in Bay Point. The new station became operational on August 10, replacing the historic Fire Station 86, located one mile to the east, which had been in continuous use since 1949. Strategically located adjacent to the Highway 4 interchange at Willow Pass Road, Fire Station 86 supports the unincorporated areas of Bay Point, nearby Pittsburg, and other communities along the busy Highw...

Con Fire’s automated phone system helps working media more quickly and easily reach the on-duty public information officer (PIO) 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Pushing timely information Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., the media line will direct to voicemail unless the on-call PIO is responding to an active incident. For overnight periods when there is no working incident requiring PIO presence, voicemails will be returned before 8 a.m. the next morning. RSS feeds continue to...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced a reorganization implementing a number of leadership changes designed to ensure effective management of the District – the scope, size, and complexity of which grew with its annexation of the former East Contra Costa Fire Protection District on July 1, 2022. Changes include creation of two new deputy fire chief positions, bringing total deputy chiefs to three, with each responsible for overseeing one of three newly formed D...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire), East Contra Costa Fire Protection District and law enforcement agencies across the county warned residents about the extreme dangers of fireworks use in current critically high fire danger conditions and reminded of the county ordinance enacted last year, along with numerous city ordinances, that strengthen enforcement abilities, in a presentation in Concord. Fire and law enforcement leaders reminded residents and visitors that all firewo...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announces details regarding a peat fire that has been burning since May 28 in the waterfront areas of Bay Point and Pittsburg. The original fire began in the early afternoon of May 28 in a homeless encampment near Suisun and Solano Avenues in Bay Point that burned to approximately 200 acres. The homeless encampment was completely consumed by the fire. No injuries were reported. The May 28 fire occurred in a largely inaccessible area wit...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) made available details of the fire and EMS activity, much of it fireworks related, occurring across the District during the Independence Day holiday weekend. For the four-hour period from 9 p.m., 4th July 2022, to 1 a.m., 5th July 2022, the District dispatched crews to 38 fire incidents. This represents at least a 300 percent increase over other Mondays, which in June, averaged nine such fire dispatches per day. For the entire Independence...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) will provide a media briefing on fireworks dangers, staffing for expected fireworks activities, and a summary of last night’s fireworks incident experience at our Crew 12 Fire Control Worker base, Station 12. When: Sunday, July 3, 5 p.m. Where: Station 12, 1240 Shell Avenue, Martinez What: A media-only update briefing on the current fireworks situation across the District Additional Information The Fire Marshal and Crew 12 le...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced the availability of a toll-free hotline for use by residents to immediately reach their local law enforcement non-emergency phone lines, in order to report illegal fireworks use in their areas. The illegal fireworks reporting phone number is +1 (833) 885-2021. The toll-free hotline features a voice menu that allows residents to quickly reach the correct law enforcement number for their location by entering the first three letters...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced fire investigators have determined fireworks were the cause of the early morning June 17 grassfire that originated in the open space south of Jacqueline Drive, Pittsburg. The fire threatened some 100 homes and forced the mandatory evacuation of approximately 2,200 residents. four-alarm response The blaze, first reported at 2 a.m., prompted a four-alarm response from both Con Fire and Cal Fire, with more than 100 firefighters and...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) and local law enforcement and fire officials will conduct a media-only event that is designed to share fireworks safety messaging for the public. This information is of particular importance given current critically high fire danger and the large number of grass and vegetation fires occurring across the County. Media-only event to share safety measures The event will take place at the site of last Friday morning’s fireworks-caused...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announces receipt of a $3 million California Climate Investments Wildfire Prevention grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The grant is for the creation of a shaded fuel break across southern Lafayette and Walnut Creek, that will, when completed in 2024, afford significant protection from wildfires for residents in the communities of Rossmoor and southern Lafayette. Affording significant protecti...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) and East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (East Con) announced staffing of the new, but previously unopened, Fire Station 55 in Oakley. The station is fully staffed for the first time with a three-firefighter engine company equipped to dispatch on either the station’s standard Type 1 Engine 55 or its wildland firefighting Engine 355. Positive impacts The addition of this fire crew is expected to have positive impacts on fire a...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced the graduation of its Lateral Fire Academy 57 and the addition of 27 new experienced firefighters to the District’s ranks.  Academy 57 Academy 57 consisted exclusively of experienced firefighters from other agencies across the state and region who chose to join Con Fire to continue their careers. The abbreviated eight-week course of instruction was designed to align students’ past training with Con Fire&rsq...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire), the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services, and the City of Walnut Creek announces the successful conduct of a historic, first-time evacuation exercise in the Walnut Creek community of Rossmoor on Sunday, May 15. The exercise was designed to evaluate and improve evacuation procedures for residents of the Rossmoor community and test the County’s new Zonehaven digital evacuation tool for first responders. At...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) announced a return to full fire responses for all grass, vegetation, and wildland fires across the District, because of the early arrival of seasonal fire weather. Full responses consist of a minimum of five firefighting apparatus and crews. Since December 2021, such responses had been reduced to a single engine based on the reduced threat during the winter months. wildfire season Con Fire is preparing for a challenging wildfire season a...

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) and East Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (East Con) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark joint staffing of Fire Station 55 in Oakley, California, United States of America. County Board of Supervisors District Three Supervisor, Diane Burgis, City of Oakley Mayor, Randy Pope, and other officials are expected to participate. Con Fire and East Con officials will be available for comment immediately following the ceremony....

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) and Rodeo-Hercules Fire announced they will conduct wildland fire “burn” training in Rodeo in conjunction with Phillips 66, Cal Fire and other agencies during morning hours beginning May 16th, 2021. Training will continue between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. each day thereafter from May 16 to May 27, 2021. Phillips 66 personnel, along with other fire agencies, will participate in the training which will take place in Rodeo in the large op...