City of Santa Clara Fire Department

Station 2, Walsh Avenue

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In January 2007, work (that is, for Cisco Systems) brought me back out to California for about a week. Though the days were packed with business meetings, I was able to sneak out one night and make a quick visit to the City of Santa Clara Fire Department's Station 2 / Training Center complex on Walsh Avenue. Despite my arriving unannounced, one of the firefighters working that evening took a few minutes to give me a tour of the station and talk to me about their operations.
The City of Santa Clara covers an area of 19.3 square miles and has a night-time population of 110,000, which swells to over 135,000 during the day. As of 2004/2005, they had 10 stations with 176 paid personnel, and ran over 9300 incidents (includes emergency and non-emergency) in 2004. The corporate limits of the Town of Apex encompass about 12 square miles with a population of about 30,000. Comparing population densities, Santa Clara's is approximately 5700 / sq mi while Apex's is around 2500 / sq mi!

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Training tower behind the station
A piece of history
I liked their podium in the training room

Station 2 has a truck company...
... a heavy rescue...
... and a pumper. Marcel (I hope I remembered his name correctly!) was the one who gave me the grand tour.

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Copyright © 2007 Sue-Lynn Hinson

Training tower behind the station	A piece of history	I liked their podium in the training room
Station 2 has a truck company...	... a heavy rescue...	... and a pumper. Marcel (I hope I remembered his name correctly!) was the one who gave me the grand tour.