On Nov. 19, the UC Davis Fire Department celebrated the arrival of its new Fire Truck with a traditional push-in ceremony.
This tradition dates back to the era of horse-drawn fire carriages when firefighters would physically push a new firefighting vehicle into the station. Held at Station 34, the event marked a milestone for the department, which only replaces its ladder truck every 15–20 years.
UC Davis Fire Department is hosting the 2024 Resuscitation Academy on October 14 and 15. Register today!
The UC Davis Fire Department will once again host the two-day free training event, which covers the latest findings in resuscitation, CPR, and post-resuscitation pre-hospital care. Attendees can choose to attend a single day (either day) or both days.
Fire Day on the Quad will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 1 from 11am-1pm on West Quad at UC Davis. Highlights include a vehicle extrication demonstration, interactive trainings in use of a fire extinguisher, hands-only CPR, and more! Free t-shirts will also be given away.
Following UC Davis Fire Deployments to help contain the summer wildfires across the state.
October 18, 2024 - Fire Captain, Steve Dunn, was deployed to Shasta County to lead a strike team of type-3 wildland fire engines at the Shoe Incident. He will be joined by a trainee from Yolo County and be in charge of 5 engines from the Sacramento region. Captain Dunn is being deployed through the California Office of Emergency Services. At the time of deployment, the Shoe Fire had burned 4,278 acres, was 8% contained, and mandatory evacuations were in place.
UC Davis and other local fire and police departments will train for a mass casualty incident on Tuesday, July 25 and Thursday and Friday, July 27 and 28.
Updated July 20
The training will take place at Shasta residence hall, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Beginning this summer, our Student EMT employees are going to start performing safety and maintenance checks on all campus AEDs. At minimum, the AEDs will be checked quarterly by our staff (our goal is to check every AED at least monthly).
The UC Davis Fire Department EMT certification class has been named the best hands-on training in the nation, recognition for a course so popular that the most recent group filled in 40 minutes with almost no marketing.
The UC Davis Fire Department’s student EMTs and firefighters are seeing emotion on both sides of the needle at the Davis campus’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic where the fire personnel are administering the bulk of the shots.
Student EMTs are helping their fellow students move safely into on-campus quarantine, thanks to a collaboration between the UC Davis Fire Department, Student Health and Counseling Services and Student Housing.
