Chico Fire Department
NorCal · Municipal · Career
Mission
To provide the highest quality fire, rescue, and emergency services to the Chico community in a caring and professional manner.
Source: official department source
Chico Fire Department is a small-medium municipal all-risk agency with about 60 full-time personnel and 8 active volunteers, operating four staffed stations and one unstaffed ARFF station.
Preparing for the Chico Fire Department oral board
Chico Fire Department serves 92,464 served across a 33-square-mile area residents from 4 stations. 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 technical rescue
- the programs it puts into the community, like community emergency response (CERT) and community risk reduction
- the culture and priorities its own people describe
Themes this profile surfaces
- Why you want to serve Chico Fire Department specifically, over any other department
- Scenario questions that touch its wildland and interface fires and hazardous materials work
- How you would contribute to its community emergency response (CERT) work
- How your own values line up with the department's mission
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