The OCFA - Proudly serving nearly 1.8 million people in 23 cities and the unincorporated areas of Orange County, CA, with our 1,010 firefighters responding
We enhance public safety and meet the evolving needs of our communities through education, prevention, and emergency response.
Disclaimer
Welcome to the Orange County Fire Authority’s official Facebook page. The OCFA is an agency of dedicated professional firefighters and civilian personnel committed to providing the highest quality of service and protection to the community. Please note, our page is not monitored 24-hours a day. If you wish to report a fire, or have a concern that should be handled in a timely manner, please DO NOT leave a message here. If you have an emergency need, please call 911. If you have a problem that does not require an immediate response, please call our 24-hour non-emergency Dispatch Center at (714) 573-6000.
The purpose of this site is to present matters of public interest concerning the Authority’s programs, activities, news stories, and photos. We welcome your comments; however, please note this is a moderated online discussion site and not a public forum.
If you need an official source for information about the Orange County Fire Authority please visit our website at https://www.ocfa.org. Comments made by the public to our page will be reviewed, and while comments will not be edited by our personnel, the Department reserves the right to remove comments that include:
• Comments unrelated to the purpose and topical scope of the page. This page is not meant for comments that do not directly relate to the purpose or topical scope of the page.
• Profane or obscene language or content.
• Sexual content, or links to sexual content.
• Content that promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation.
• Incitement to imminent lawless action.
• Speech presenting a grave and imminent threat
• Fighting words
• True threats
• Fraud
• Defamation (libel/slander)
• Solicitations to commit, or speech integral to, criminal conduct.
• Advertising of products or services.
• Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems; or content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party.
• Copyrighted material (if posted without the copyright holder’s consent).
The OCFA may take steps to have a comment removed if it falls within one of the foregoing categories. Also, please keep in mind that this an internet page on facebook.com. Facebook, Inc. owns and operates facebook.com. It has its own policies and standards concerning what may, and may not, be posted and the actions that it may take with regard to unauthorized posts. See “Facebook Community Standards” at www.facebook.com/communitystandards/. The OCFA may also take steps to remove “robo spam” and/or comments by “social bots” (i.e., content posted by automatic software programs, or “bots”) if necessary to ensure access for the general public.
Furthermore, while we encourage debate and discussion, we respectfully request that commenters be mindful that this site is open to the public and that commenters be courteous and civil toward one another. The OCFA is not responsible for, and neither endorses nor opposes, comments placed on this site by visitors to this site. Citizens are personally responsible for their own comments.
