1921 REO Speedwagon
The History of Shasta Lake Fire District cont.
9-11 Memorial
In 2001 the district was able to hire two additional firefighters to bring the total to six which allows for two fire suppression personnel on duty twenty four hours a day seven days per week. The district also supplements its staffing during the wildland fire season with the addition of three seasonal firefighters, two of whom are on shift every day during the dangerous daytime hours.
The District currently employs nine full-time professionals running over 1300 all risk incidents per year in the City of Shasta Lake and the surrounding area. The District currently operates ten pieces of apparatus, with three of those apparatus capable of providing advanced life support.
The District maintains a close working relationship with the City of Shasta Lake and the Shasta County Sheriffs Office, as well as with all of the surrounding fire agencies. Due to constant training and high standards of performance, the District is able to maintain a low loss per incident as well as providing some of the best pre-hospital care available in the area.
By the middle of 1994 the Fire District was in trouble, having only a handful of volunteers left with several of them being inexperienced. The Summit City Fire Protection District Board of Directors approached the Central Valley Fire Protection District Board of Directors to ask for administrative help and to begin the process of consolidating the two Fire Protection Districts.
In December 1994 the Central Valley and Summit City Fire Protection Districts consolidated into the Shasta Lake Fire Protection District with all administrative duties being handled by the Central Valley Fire Protection District administration. The two districts operated a joint board of directors consisting of the five Central Valley board members and two Summit City board members until the next general election when the Shasta Lake Fire Protection District board was pared down to five members. The one forty hour per week firefighter position from the old Summit City Fire Protection District was switched to a fifty six hour position, so that the new district now had four full time firefighters and three chief officers.