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Desert Incident Response Team
- What is It?
- About the program
- Funding
- Borax Bill Park
- Mine Shaft Safety
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The Desert Incident Response team (D.I.R.T) is the partnership of the California City Fire Department and the California City police Department to provide the highest level of enforcement, search and rescue, medical care, fire suppression and public education to OHV enthusiasts. Together our goal is to create a safe and friendly environment in both rural and recreational area throughout California City and surrounding areas. In addition, joint operations are conducted with the Bureau of Land Management inside the boundaries of BLM land to prevent illegal OHV activity and resource damage. |
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The California City Fire Department Desert Incident Response Team responds to medical and traumatic emergencies to provide basic and advanced life support care. Highly trained and skilled Firefighter/Paramedics and Firefighter/EMT’s are assigned to each apparatus and are equipped to assess and manage all patient care situations. In addition the fire department responds to off-highway fire suppression situations, vehicle extrication, technical rescue, search and rescue operations, and any situation that requires fire department assistance. |
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There are over 1,800 miles of City combination use roads/dirt trails and 33.5 miles of designated OHV trails in California City, to include the OHV Trail into the City's Business District. The focus point was BLM Trail R5, at Campsite C and Chrysler Drive. Two OHV routes were designed from that point to Borax Bill Park, CC10 and CC5. CC10 is a route that follows non-maintained City streets (11 miles). CC5 is a challenging route through City easements (8.5 miles). CC5 merges into CC10 at Borax Bill Park, and continues on to the Business District (14 miles). OHV maps available at the command post
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The Desert Incident Response Team (D.I.R.T.) is funded and operated strictly through State Parks, by way of OHV funds (green sticker fees), and the OHV Permit Program. D.I.R.T. plays a vital public safety role for all visitors to this high desert community. The center of public safety operations, is Borax Bill Park, located along the historic Twenty Mule Team Parkway and Esse Blvd. Please visit the park and find out more information.
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| GPS: N35* 10.278' W117* 50.247' | |||||||
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| Watch Out For Mine Shafts! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Every year someone gets trapped in a mine shaft. While these mine shafts may look interesting and fun to go exploring in, they can be very dangerous. Children and adults alike lose their lives every year in abandoned mine shafts. Please keep your family safe by staying away from these areas.
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Deployment of D.I.R.T is usually schedule on holiday weekends.
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