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Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District, or Rancho Adobe, was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Cotati Fire Protection District and the Penngrove Fire Protection District. Located 10 miles south of Santa Rosa, CA, the District provides services to the Penngrove, Cotati, and unincorporated areas of Petaluma. It covers an emergency response area of roughly 86 square miles, and serves approximately 28,000 people.

Rancho Adobe protects this large area 24/7, operating from three strategically located stations: Station 1 at 1 East Cotati Avenue, Cotati; Station 2, at 11000 Main Street, Penngrove, and Station 3 at 99 Liberty School Road, Petaluma.

Rancho Adobe is a combination fire district, with a full-time paid staff that is supplemented with part-time firefighters, and volunteer members of the community. Currently, there have 13 full-time Firefighters, Engineers and Captains, 3 Battalion Chiefs, 24 part-time Firefighters, one part-time Fire Chief, and an Administrative Manager.

In the first year after the merger, Rancho Adobe received approximately 1,000 calls for service. In 2017, they responded to 2,750 calls for service, an increase of over 5% a year since 1993. The Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District supplements their workforce through automatic and mutual aid agreements with neighboring fire departments.

The members of the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District have famously established themselves as the most dedicated hard-working fire department in Sonoma County.

The district name was derived from the word “Rancho,” from the Rancho Cotati Land Grant in the City of Cotati and “Adobe,” from the Adobe Fort located within the Penngrove community.