Welcome to the offical Facebook page for the City of Los Banos Fire Department.
The Los Banos Fire Department was first organized in 1890 and has a rich history of successfully providing a high level of service to the citizens of our community. The Los Banos Fire Department is proud of the fact that our Volunteer and Career Firefighters, as well as our administrative staff, are very talented, highly trained, extremely motivated and loyally focused on their core mission of compassionate and professional service to the City of Los Banos and our residents.
The Los Banos Fire Department provides a variety of services to our community that include fire suppression, first responder emergency medical services, fire prevention, public education and a wide variety of technical rescue operations. The department currently maintains two fire stations within the City limits that are staffed with career Firefighters and augmented by very dedicated and professional Volunteer Firefighters.
The ultimate goal of the department is to continue to foster and enhance the volunteer department as well as expand our career staffing and facilities to keep pace with the anticipated growth of our community using nationally recognized standards and fiscally responsible accountability.
The primary mission of the Los Banos Fire Department is to protect life and property for the citizens of the City of Los Banos. From the effect of fires, medical emergencies, vehicle accidents, exposure to hazardous materials, earthquakes, floods, disasters and dangerous conditions.
The life safety and property protection mission is accomplished through a wide range of programs which include fire protection, fire prevention, planning, fire prevention education, fire inspections, code enforcement, fire suppression, and training.
To provide first responder and EMT’s for the delivery of emergency medical services, to include auto extrication, trench and building collapse rescue as well as controlling hazardous material emergency incidents.
The Los Banos Fire Department also provides mutual aid for fire/rescue and EMS services to other local agencies in Merced County, and participates in the statewide Master Mutual Aid plan.
