Lake Valley Fire Protection District

Fire Chief Chad Stephen

2211 Keetak Street

South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150

(530) 577-3739

Lake Valley Fire Protection District is comprised of 86 square miles of mountainous terrain and provides emergency services for the majority of the unincorporated areas of Lake Tahoe Basin's south shore. The Lake Tahoe Basin is located approximately 200 miles northeast of San Francisco, California and 60 miles South West of Reno, Nevada, nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. LVFPD maintains a contract of annexation, of approximately 5 square miles, with our neighbors in Alpine County, just south of our district.

LVFPD serves a permanent community of approximately 12,000 residents and will see our community swell up to approximately 50,000 residents during our summer tourist season. Lake Tahoe's south shore as a whole will host an average of three million vistors annually. Lake Valley Fire Protection Distrcit provides fire suppression, technical resuce, advanced life support (ALS) ambulance transport and ALS capable Type 1 engine (structure fire) services to our community. The Cal Tahoe ambu;ance service is functionally combined through a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) contract, between Lake Valley Fire Protection District and South Lake Tahoe Fire Department. LVFPD also specializes in the areas of Wildland-Urban Interface firefighting, frequent strike team deployment, back country rescues, vehicle extrications, and helicopter utlization for the multitude of vehicle and skiing accidents we have throughout the year.