Monta Vista Fire Station
22620 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
Built: 1966 Replaced FY 1997-98.
Monta Vista station is responsible for acquiring and distributing the weather information provided by the Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) which provide fire weather data. This information, including temperature, humidity, wind direction and velocity, are used to determine the level of wildfire risk.
Engine 7 is a 1992 Hi-Tech/Spartan with a 1500gpm (5685 l/m) pump.
Engine 7 and two AMR paramedic units line up next to a medivac helicopter landing zone, during a training drill, Sep 2002.
Battalion 7 is a 2001 Ford Excursion. Unlike the older Suburbans, this rig has internal strobes lights behind the turn signals lenses, so it doesn't have a push-bar with lights on the front bumper. It is equipped with a low-profile amber lightbar across the back end of the roof.
Two shots of the old Monta Vista station. The photo on the left is the "official" Santa Clara County photograph, the one on the right is probably an outtake from the same photo shoot. Date unknown.
Another shot of the station, July 1968.
The station shown with engine 7 parked in front, in the 1980s.
Tanker 3 was assigned to the Monta Vista station. It carried 600 gallons of water, and had a 750gpm pump.
Engine 7 was a 1967 Ford C/Van Pelt, with a 750gpm pump and a 600 gallon tank. It responded from the Monta Vista station.
CD108 at the Monta Vista station. CD108 was an International 200/Van Pelt, owned by the State of California Disaster Office. 4 Feb 1974.
Three shots of engine 7, a 1975 International/Van Pelt, with a 750gpm pump. It was a remount of body from Alma station's 1966 Ford. Photos circa 1982 and Jun 1985.
Another engine 7 International, fresh from the Van Pelt plant. This one with an extended cab. Photo January 1976.
Another engine 7 International, this one with an extended cab. Photo 2 Feb 1976.
The engine 7 crew drills at Monta Vista station, July 1981.
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By today's standards, each of the three men in the above training photo is doing something wrong. Can you spot their safety violations? (Click on the photo for a closer look.) Note that none of these may have applied 20+ years ago when this drill was conducted, but would today.
(Also, nobody is fully dressed. No bunker pants or boots, no SCBA tanks. Train like you work, work like you train…) |
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