The San Jose Fire Department (SJFD) is commited to serving the community by pretecting life, property, and the enviroment through prevention and response.

San Jose was founded in 1777 and is located in the South San Francisco Bay area within Santa Clara County. It is the 10th largest city in the US and the 3rd largest in California. SJFD serves the city-proper and other Santa Clara County areas with a total population that exceeds 1 million.

Responding to approximately 74,000 calls for service each year (from 33 Fire Stations), SJFD is a high-volume, high-performance, full service fire department. In terms of critical infrastructure, SJFD is the emergency provider for a number of high-hazard occupancies, including an International Airport, 1 municipal aiport, 7 major hospitals (including 3 trauma centers and 7 emergency departments), the HP Pavillion (home of the SJ Sharks with an occupancy of 20,000), San Jose State University (the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast with a student population of 31,906), three regional malls, and 516 high-rise structures.

In addition, SJFD provides emergency services to various arts and cultural venues; multiple municipal storm and sanitary pump stations; Federal buildings and offices including a Federal Marshall's Office, a Federal Courthouse, and the Office of Immigrations Services.; Tank Farms, including Shell and Chevron; bio-medical research centers and solar energy research centers.