The Santa Clara County Fire Department is a full service fire department which has evolved throughfire consolidations and contracts. In 1947, two agencies - the Cottage Grove Fire District and the Oakmead Farms Fire District - were consolidated to form the Santa Clara County Central Fire ProtectionDistrict (now known as Santa Clara County Fire Department). This consolidation was the result of the CaliforniaDivision of Forestry withdrawing from the valley floor when its contract with Santa Clara County was terminatedin 1947. In that same year an election was held which authorized the Department to provide fire suppression servicesto the unincorporated area stretching from Highway 9 east across the valley to Mount Hamilton and south tothe Almaden
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