#37 to the Rescue! Your fire station serving North Ranch
Photo by Bob Roper, Ventura County Fire Chief
By: Sher Hann
In 1975, the North Ranch area was being planned and developed. However, there was a caveat. A fire station was required in order to safely service the North Ranch Community. Although the agreed upon location eventually became a park, North Ranch was erected.
At the time, the city of Thousand Oaks wanted to save the Wildwood Mesa on the west end of Avenida de los Arboles as open space, so the city reached an agreement with the owners of Wildwood Mesa. Wildwood mesa agreed to allow homes to be built in the North Ranch area. As part of the agreement, Conejo Recreation and Park District would agree with the city and Mesa owners only if they could have the original fire station site to add to their park site. Therefore, a second fire station site was agreed upon, which is the northeast corner of Kanan Road and Upper Ranch Road. This is the site of today’s fire station. Fire station 37.
I thought this would be interesting information as we are in full fledged fire season. It’s comforting to know that North Ranch has a great fire station ready to service our area if we need help. And by the way, this stations doubles as a polling center on Election Days.
Information retrieved from: North Ranch Living, October 2010.
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