Village News - Firefighters Wear Pink

North County Fire Protection District firefighter Matt Lindsey said this will be the second year that he and the rest of the personnel have donned pink for breast cancer awareness month.

"We're ditchin' the blue and puttin' on the pink," said Lindsey, who is coordinating the effort, by all six of the district's stations, to break with typical uniform policy on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Lindsey said it was easy to persuade his co-workers to buy and wear the pink shirts.

"Breast cancer, specifically, has affected a good majority of our fire department family," said Lindsey, who lost an aunt to the disease eight years ago. "Everyone told stories of friends or family members who have been affected. So there were no gripes at all."

Thank you to all our players and sponsors at our yearly golf tournament!  Your generous donations have allowed us to once again to make charitable donations to the following organizations: Code 3 for a Cure Foundation,  ALS Association SD Co., and Fallbrook Food Pantry.

The Fallbrook Firefighters Association represents over 60 personnel proudly providing a full service fire department capable of fire fighting, emergency medical services, hazardous material operational and technical rescue. 

Together we protect the lives and property of more than 55,000 residents and annual visitors to our “friendly village”. Our Fire District is located in the northernmost part of San Diego County, California. Our Fire District is over 100 square miles encompassing the communities of Fallbrook, Bonsall and Rainbow. These communities are a mix of urban and rural. One of our biggest challenges is the Wildland Urban Interface (homes built right up to and throughout the native vegetation).

Our professional firefighters respond to over 5,000 emergency requests every year. We are dispatched to emergencies by Rancho Fire JPA Dispatch Center. The “Ranch” is a state of the art enhanced 9-1-1 computer-aided dispatch center, which strategically directs the response of our 6 stations (and many other dept’s) throughout our district.

We utilize a total of; 7 ALS engine companies, 4 ALS ambulances, 1 rescue/ special operations unit, 4 brush fire engines, and the use of an air ambulance as needed. We also participate in automatic aid with neighboring agencies.

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