Welcome to the Los Altos Hills County Fire District (the “District”), which was established on October 23, 1939, and serves residents of Los Altos Hills and the unincorporated areas known as Loyola, Los Trancos, and San Antonio Hills. The mission of the Los Altos Hills County Fire District is to protect the lives, property and environment within the District it serves from fires, disasters, and medical emergencies or other incidents through education, prevention, protection and emergency response services, and to be responsible for the financial stewardship of District taxpayer funds.
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 contracting with the County Fire Department for fire suppression and emergency medical services, the District owns, manages and maintains a system of 552 fire hydrants in the Purissima Hills Water District. The hydrant infrastructure provides adequate and reliable supply of water for use in fire emergencies. The District manages these functions, while contracting with specialized engineering consultants and contractors to perform the physical installation and maintenance of the hydrant system.
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).
