Location and Jurisdiction

Santa Barbara County Fire Station 41 is located at 41 Newsome Street in New Cuyama (Map). They can be reached at (661) 766-2469. Station 41 provides fire and Paramedic services for Cuyama, New Cuyama and the surrounding areas. Station 41's northern boundray extends to portions of San Louis Obispo County and the Caliente Mountains, in the south to the Sierra Madre, west to Rockfront Ranch and east to Highways 166 and 33.

Equipment

 

Staffing

Station 41 is staffed by one Captain, one Engineer and one Firefighter/Paramedic.

History

In 1948 Fire Warden Jack Anderson was approved to employ 2 men as part-time patrolmen. The patrolmen were stationed in New Cuyama in their temporary quarters, a small Quonset hut. A flurry of fire station construction took place throughout the County in the fifties. In early 1951 the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors agreed to provide fire protection for Cuyama at the request of the Richfield Oil Corporation. Richfield Oil Corporation was to provide the land, fire station and have 2 dwelling units built on the property. (These dwelling units were inhabited by married personnel, whose wives would work at the stations as dispatchers for their respective districts. This arrangement was typical of the period and most of the houses are still standing at Stations 11, 13, 24, 31, 41 and 51 where today they serve as offices or residences.) In February of that year plans were approved and construction began. Construction was completed in the spring of 1952 and on May 19th of 1952 the County purchased the land and dwellings which Richfield had built for $45,000.