The Department has reciprocal Mutual Aid and Automatic Aid agreements with the Oakdale Rural Fire Protection District and the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District.  The Oakdale City Fire Department’s response system is designed with these agencies that provide a key component to our level of service.  With the addition of both agencies, we can effect life safety rescues and fire attack at an acceptable time frame meeting all Cal-OSHA requirements.  Without these agencies, we would reduce our reaction time increasing the potential for life loss and dramatically increasing property loss.  This delay would also result in fire ground safety issues for our employees and the public.

We measure our success by several national standards. The two basic standards being response time and the ability to mitigate the fire to the area of involvement upon our arrival.  We enjoy a response time of four minutes, 90% of the time anywhere in the City of Oakdale.  Response time is the actual driving time to the incident.  With this response time, the opportunity to confine the fire to the area of origin is high, life safety for the public and our employees is increased and the threat of a major fire creating millions of dollars of property loss and loss of property taxes, sales tax are all dramatically reduced.

This response also provides us with the greatest opportunity to provide life saving medical intervention for people who are ill, not breathing or there heart has stopped.  When someone is not breathing or his or her heart not beating, every minute beyond 6-8 minutes causes irreversible brain damage and the ability to save the life reduces dramatically.  Response time and staffing levels are critical components to the Fire Delivery System being successful.

OFD Total Incident Responses 2009                1767

OFD Total Incident Responses 2007                1709

OFD Total Incident Responses 2006                1572