Image from fire.ca.gov (CAL FIRE Website) November 7, 2026 Shasta County Fire Department (SCFD), administered through its long-standing contract with CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit, relies on a combination of career personnel and volunteers across roughly 17 volunteer fire companies serving rural and semi-rural communities. Shasta County is struggling to keep roughly 100 paid-call volunteer firefighters on its rolls—down from about 250 in earlier years—as departments across the