Butte County Fire Department (BCFD) is an all risk agency that responds to over 15,000 requests for service per calendar year. These include rescues, residential and commercial structure fires, vegetation fires, medical emergencies, hazardous materials spills, public assists, and other miscellaneous public service requests. BCFD is a combination career and volunteer fire department. The 300 career
firefighters are augmented by 17 community based BCFD volunteer fire companies made up of over 160 volunteer firefighters. WHO WE SERVE:
In the largest sense we serve the over 33 million people of California. Locally we serve the 200,000 plus citizens of Butte County; and the 102,000 unincorporated residents of Butte County, the 2,700 citizens of the city of Biggs and the 5,000 citizens of the city of Gridley. Through automatic and mutual aid agreements, we also serve the cities of Oroville and Chico and the town of Paradise as well as each of the surrounding counties.
