Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery!
The Santa Barbara County Fire Department wants to remind residents to make another change that could save their lives – changing the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. A working smoke alarm can give your family the extra seconds you need to get out of a home fire safely. Changing smoke alarm batteries at least twice per year is one of the simplest, most effective ways to reduce the risk of a tragic death or injuries. In fact, working smoke alarms nearly cut in half the risk of dying in a home fire. The International Association of Fire Chiefs recommends replacing your smoke alarms every ten years.
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Jesusita Fire Re-Build Guidelines
Property owners affected by the Jesusita Fire should read the Jesusita Fire Re-Build Guidelines The guide provides important information on conditions involving the recovery effort and the rebuilding process.
Protect your Home from Wildfire!
Learn more about how you can Prepare for Fire Season!
Being prepared for the next wildfire means taking the personal responsibility to protect yourself, your family, and your property. The most critical person in preparing and protecting your life and property is not the firefighter, but you, the property owner.
In order to reduce this potential and as a part of the Department’s Defensible Space and Hazard Reduction program the Santa Barbara County Fire Department sends notices to abate fire hazards to the owners of all properties in county fire jurisdiction that potentially pose a fire hazard. These notices indicate the start of yearly weed abatement requirements.
It is not a matter of “if” another wildfire will occur in our area, but “when”.
Learn more about how to protect your home from wildfire.
Fire Resistive Construction Recommendations
Houses protect people if people protect houses!
It is very important to realize that although no (livable!) house is fire proof, there are steps you can take to make it a lot more fire-safe! Some changes can be done very quickly and inexpensively. Others may require more effort, expense, and in some cases professional help.
In conjunction with your Wildfire Action Plan, we suggest you visit the California Homeowner's Wildfire Mitigation Guide (while visiting the guide click on “Decks, “Fences”, “Garages” or one of the other titles for more information). This site includes recommendations for Fire Resistive Construction in addition to home improvements, repairs, additions and maintenance.
These two additional links have information about your roof or other vulnerable parts of your home and include information on other possible problems and solutions that can make your home a safer refuge during a wildfire.
These recommendations are in compliance with County and State Building and Fire Codes and are offered with permission by the University of California Cooperative Extension.
Additionally, CALFIRE provides the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Products guide to give homeowners and building officials a list of “compliant WUI products”, for retrofit and new construction building materials that are approved for use in our High Fire Hazard Zones. Please visit the CALFIRE web site web for updates and other related information.
Residential Safety Survey
Please use this Residential Safety Survey as a guide to help you improve the fire resistive features of your home, maintain your defensible space and insure our ability to access your home in an emergency. We encourage you to phone or visit visit your neighborhood County Fire Station crew to invite them to come by and help you assess the safety of your home and possibly identify no-cost or low-cost ways to improve your family’s safety during a wildfire. This is a no-cost service to our communities.
Sand Bags
Sand Bags can found at the following Santa Barbara County Locations:
North County
* Santa Maria Road Yard located on Foster Road
* County Fire Station 32 at the Santa Ynez Airport
In Santa Barbara, Montecito and Goleta sand and sand bags remain available at the following:
* County Fire Station 14, 320 N. Los Carneros in Goleta.
* The County Yard at the Transfer Station, 4430 Calle Real.
* The Santa Barbara Botanical Garden Parking Lot, 1212 Mission Canyon Road.
* Montecito Fire Station 1, 595 San Ysidro Road.
* City of Santa Barbara Annex Yard, 401 E. Yanonali Street.
* County Fire Station 11 on Stork Road ( 691 Frey Way ) near Home Depot.
* City of Carpinteria Maintenance Yard, located at 5775 Carpinteria Ave.
* Carpinteria – Summerland Fire Station 2, located at 2375 Lilly Avenue.
Red Flag Alerts
A Red Flag Fire Alert is a wildfire danger warning.
A Red Flag Alert in your area means that the combinations of terrain, weather and fuel moisture are at hazardous levels and could lead to rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. Be prepared!
The Red Flag Alert Plan utilizes available Santa Barbara County Fire Department forces, cooperating fire agencies, citizen groups, and the news media to inform the public of high fire danger, the potential for a major wildfire, and the need to be aware of and exercise fire safe practices during these periods.
Our Mission
The mission of the Santa Barbara County Fire Department is to serve and safeguard the community from the impacts of fires, medical emergencies, environmental emergencies, and natural disasters. This will be accomplished through education, code enforcement, planning and prevention, emergency response, and disaster recovery.
