| The Bolinas Fire Protection District provides fire protection, emergency medical care, and disaster
management to the community of Bolinas. The size of the District is approximately ten and a half
square miles, reaching from Dogtown at the north to Volunteer Canyon at the south, Ridgecrest
Blvd. (on top of Mt. Tamalpais) to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The Bolinas Fire
Department serves a resident population of approximately 2,500 people as well as visitors to the
beaches and trails within the District and responds to over two hundred emergency calls a
year.
The Fire District employs a paid fire chief, a paid captain and firefighter, and about eighteen volunteer
firefighters, most of whom are certified Emergency Medical Technicians. The Department's
rescue/command vehicle is staffed twenty four hours a day, seven days a week by either a paid
firefighter or a qualified volunteer Duty Officer. Bolinas Fire Department dispatching is handled
by Marin County Fire Department from their headquarters in Woodacre. A paramedic ambulance is
provided by Marin County Fire Department and comes from Point Reyes Station, approximately twenty
minutes away. During the summer months, Marin County Fire Department staffs a second paramedic
ambulance which is quartered in Stinson Beach and serves the Bolinas and Stinson Beach communities
by agreement with the Stinson Beach Fire Protection District, the Bolinas Fire Protection District,
and the County of Marin, reducing the response time for Advanced Life Support services to about ten
minutes.
The Fire Department staff is available to Bolinas residents to answer questions or inspect your
property for fire safety and related concerns (fireplace and wood stove installation, roads - access
and escape routes, recommended brush clearance, and disaster planning, for example).
The five directors of the Fire Protection District are elected by voters in the District to four
year terms and meet at the Firehouse at 100 Mesa Road on the fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 PM.
The volunteers meet Tuesday evenings at seven for training. Call 868-1566
for information on Fire District activities or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer
firefighter.
EMERGENCIES: DIAL 911
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