Where Are The Fire Stations?
The Sierra Fire Protection District has three career stations staffed 24/7. Only one of these is in the Mount Rose Corridor , in the area that would be covered by the proposed special assessment district. That station is SFPD Station 38, at 16533 Mount Rose Highway, approximately between Bordeaux Drive and Callahan Road on the north side of the highway. Click HERE to go to the SFPD web site.
The SFPD also owns Station 39 on Joy Lake Road at the entrance to St. James's Village. This station is not the home of a fire engine or crew at this time, but it will be staffed when the new station at Thomas Creek and Arrowcreek is completed. So, no matter what your real estate agent told you, there is no fire engine right now in Station 39!
There is also a county fire station at Damonte and US 395. It is part of the other County fire service, Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District. This station, Truckee Meadows 14, is scheduled to soon be moved 2 miles east into the City of Reno near the RC Willey Department Store past the Home Depot, making it even less useful to the people who live in the SFPD. This picture shows the site selected by the city of Reno for this county fire station.
The current TM 14 station has "City of Reno Fire" painted on the outside, as do the engines, also owned by the County. There is no Truckee Meadows FPD web site, since the Fire District is staffed by the City of Reno under contract from the County, and there is no separate management or Fire Chief.
Fire Station Staff & Equipment
Both Sierra 38 and Truckee Meadows 14 have a duty crew of four people. In Sierra, this is a Captain, two firemen, and a fireman/paramedic. In Truckee Meadows, the engine company does not have a paramedic, but instead relies primarily on REMSA in a medical emergency. Each station has an engine and a brush truck (essentially an engine adapted for wildland fire fighting).
REMSA Ambulance Service Staff & Equipment
REMSA has approximately 40 ambulances available at any one time; they are not stationed at any of the fire stations, but patrol the County in the areas where REMSA predicts the highest call volume. Each is staffed, according to REMSA, with one paramedic and one EMT (a person with a lower level of skill, training, and certification than a paramedic). REMSA also operates three Careflight helicopter ambulances, which are staffed by paramedics and flight nurses.
