Welcome to the Los Altos Hills County Fire District (the “District”), which was organized on October 23, 1939 and serves residents of Los Altos Hills and the unincorporated areas known as Loyola, Los Trancos, and San Antonio Hills. Our mission is to:
The District contracts its firefighting personnel, apparatus, and equipment from the Santa Clara County Fire Department. In this way, our community enjoys the benefits of local control and planning with services tailored to our residents’ unique requirements, while simultaneously benefiting from all the advantages offered by the County’s larger resources and organization: direct access to a full roster of professional staff under large-scale day-to-day management, highly specialized equipment, and extensive back-up and mutual aid capabilities as needed.
In addition to direct fire suppression and prevention, the District performs support functions such as Water Mains and Hydrant Operations, in which we provision and maintain our community’s pipeline infrastructure to ensure an adequate and reliable supply of water for use in fire emergencies. The District manages these functions, while contracting with specialized consultants and contractors to perform the physical installation and maintenance of the system, thus minimizing the financial risks and burden of maintaining an in-house capability.
The District also promotes and manages other activities aimed at fire prevention, such as an extensive Fuel Management program that includes Weed & Brush Abatement, Brush Chipping, and Monthly Debris Drop-off. We also provide classes in Disaster Preparedness and manage a CERT and Teen CERT program (Community Emergency Response Team).
