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BREAKING NEWS – March 21, 2020  COVID 19 – Pandemic Update


Menlo Park Fire Protection District Pandemic Emergency Response Unit goes in service! Adapt, Improvise and Overcome! Captain Paramedic Jason Martin and Engineer Carlos Carpenter became the first two firefighters to staff the Fire District’s new Pandemic Emergency Response Uni…

BREAKING NEWS – March 20, 2020  COVID 19 – Pandemic Update


Menlo Park Fire Protection District Firefighters making major changes to their safety equipment and procedures in order to slow or stop community spread! Adapt, Improvise and Overcome! With six personnel, out of just under one hundred firefighters placed off duty in the last fe…

PRESS RELEASE – February 29, 2020 Construction accident creates a “waterfall” in Menlo Park


Menlo Park Fire Protection District Construction accident creates a “waterfall” in Menlo Park Menlo Fire – “Water was filling the subsurface parking garage at 500 El Camino Real at an alarming rate as a waterfall of water cascaded over the edge” …

From the Archive: Early 1990's Water Main Break


Water main break – same general location! Credit Menlo Park Historical Society El Camino Real at the Stanford Park Hotel – Menlo Park

Town of Atherton Updated Presentation Fire Board Meeting – February 18, 2020


Below is the presentation for the meeting on February 18, 2020 Atherton Presentation - February 18, 2020.pdf

Request for Proposals - Legal Services


Please click on the link: Request for Proposals - Legal Services

Community Risk Assessment Standards of Cover


Please click on the link to open Menlo Park FPD Standard of Cover Report: Menlo Park FPD SOC report

PRESS RELEASE – January 18, 2020  


In one month, on February 17, 2010, a tragic aircraft crash that killed 3 people and destroyed parts of an East Palo Alto residential neighborhood What’s changed, new, different and the same? Menlo Park Fire Protection District Background:  On February 17…

PRESS RELEASE – January 20, 2020  


New Fire Board President, the first to come from the City of East Palo Alto, in the District’s 104 year history, will be Sworn in at Fire Station 2, in East Palo Alto on January 21, 2020 at 7 pm. Menlo Park Fire Protection District On January 21, 2020, Robert Jones will be sworn…

PRESS RELEASE – December 31, 2019 New Fire Board President, the first to come from the City of East Palo Alto, in the District’s 104 year history!


New Fire Board President, the first to come from the City of East Palo Alto, in the District’s 104 year history! Menlo Park Fire Protection District Pictured above (from left to right) Outgoing Board President Virginia Chang Kiraly, Fire Chief Schapelhouman and new Board Preside…

Menlo Park Fire Protection District Celebrating 25 Years of Paramedic First Response!


The Menlo Park Fire Protection District became the first Fire Agency in San Mateo County to provide Advanced Life Support (ALS) Fire Paramedic’s on all of its seven front line fire engines twenty-five years ago. That collective push took an additional twelve years of effort beforehand. The Fi…

MPFD 25 yrs of Advance Life Support



PRESS RELEASE – December 17, 2019 Fire Board considers the purchase of the first All-Electric Fire Engine!


Fire Board considers the purchase of the first All-Electric Fire Engine! Menlo Park Fire Protection District Pictured above - The Rosenbauer first ever All Electric Concept Fire Truck (CFT) in Menlo Park – Credit Menlo Fire Pictured above – The Rosenbauer All Electr…

PRESS RELEASE – December 11, 2019 The First All-Electric Fire Engine Has Arrived!


The First All-Electric Fire Engine Has Arrived! Menlo Park Fire Protection District Pictured above - The Rosenbauer first ever All Electric Concept Fire Truck (CFT) has arrived in Menlo Park – Credit Menlo Fire Pictured above – The Rosenbauer All Electric Concept Fire T…

Happy Holidays!


Please click on the link below for the article: Station 6 winning award article

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