Holy Jim Volunteer Fire Department

The Holy Jim Volunteer Fire Department (HJVFD) is a group of firefighters in a remote Orange County, California canyon in the Cleveland National Forest.

Holy Jim Fire Department
Agency overview
Established1961
Annual calls36
Employees2-12
StaffingVolunteer Only
Fire chiefMichael Milligan
EMS levelBLS
Facilities and equipment
Stations1
Trucks1
Squads1

The chief of the department is elected to the position by members of the community and department. The members of the fire department are certified and trained in BLS medical aids and fighting wildfires.

The department performs 2 to 3 rescues of lost hikers a year and maintains its own stationhouse, one fire engine, six 5,000 gallon water tanks, a mile of water lines in the canyon and maintains its own weather station gauge at the stationhouse.[1][2][3]

Orange Coast Magazine featured a four-page article on the firefighters in October 2008.[4]

Notes
  1. "Mud slams into canyon homes". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  2. "An American tradition". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  3. "Another life lost on perilous stretch". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2009-02-03.

The station house now has only one fire engine. The other engine, Gertrude, was donated to a museum.

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