Gilroy Fire Department

Preparing for the Gilroy Fire Department oral board

Gilroy Fire Department serves 61,800 residents across 16 square miles from 4 stations in Santa Clara County, South Bay. 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 and hazardous materials
• the programs it puts into the community, like community emergency response (CERT) and cardiac-arrest survival programs
• the culture and priorities its own people describe

Themes this profile surfaces

• Why you want to serve Gilroy 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