Bolinas Fire Protection District

The Bolinas Fire Protection District provides fire protection, emergency medical care, and disaster management to the community of Bolinas. The size of the District is approximately ten and a half square miles, reaching from Dogtown at the north to Volunteer Canyon at the south, Ridgecrest Blvd. (on top of Mt. Tamalpais) to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The Bolinas Fire Department serves a resident population of approximately 1,500 people as well as thousands of visitors to the beaches and trails within the District and responds to over three hundred emergency calls a year.

The Fire District employs a full-time fire chief, administrative manager, and three full-time firefighters, along with about eighteen volunteer firefighters, most of whom are certified Emergency Medical Technicians. The Department's rescue/command vehicle is staffed twenty four hours a day, seven days a week by either a paid firefighter or a qualified volunteer Duty Officer. Bolinas Fire Department dispatching is handled by Marin County Fire Department from the Emergency Command Center. A paramedic ambulance is provided by Marin County Fire Department and comes from Point Reyes Station, approximately twenty minutes away.