Municipal fire department · California · United States

Orange County Fire Authority

The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) is a joint-powers fire agency serving 23 cities and all unincorporated areas of Orange County, California — a combined service area of approximately 575 square miles and roughly 2 million residents, making OCFA one of the largest fire-service agencies in California by population covered. Member cities include Irvine, Santa Ana, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Tustin, San Clemente, and many others that opted to contract for fire service rather than maintain independent municipal departments. (Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and Orange retain their own departments.) OCFA fields approximately 1,300 uniformed members from around 80 fire stations and provides structural and wildland fire suppression, advanced life support emergency medical service, technical rescue, hazardous materials response, urban search and rescue (the agency anchors California Task Force 5), and aircraft rescue and firefighting at John Wayne Airport. Firefighter recruitment is administered through the OCFA Human Resources Section and the joinocfa.org portal. The Firefighter Trainee pathway hires non-certified candidates into the OCFA Fire Academy for entry-level firefighters; lateral and paramedic pathways also exist. Successful candidates must hold a valid Biddle Physical Ability Test certificate. Bluewatch refers candidates to the official portal.

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