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).
