Santa Barbara County Fire Department
SoCal · County · Career
Mission
The santa barbara county fire department serves and safeguards the community from the impacts of fires, medical emergencies, environmental emergencies, and natural disasters through leadership, planning, education, prevention, code enforcement, and all-hazard emergency response.
Source: official department source
The department began on 5 April 1926, as a service which The board of supervisors said was of vital interest to all of the people of santa barbara county; the Fire Protection District was formed in 1932.
Preparing for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department oral board
Santa Barbara County Fire Department runs 16 stations across its community. Build your ARTS Tie-back material from what this department tells you about itself:
- its mission and the values it states
- the community it serves and the calls it runs
- the specialized work it runs, from wildland and interface fires, hazardous materials, and urban search and rescue
- the culture and priorities its own people describe
Themes this profile surfaces
- Why you want to serve Santa Barbara County Fire Department specifically, over any other department
- Scenario questions that touch its wildland and interface fires and hazardous materials work
- How your own values line up with the department's mission
- Pace and call volume at a department running 13,461 calls in 2021 a year
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