Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue is interested in recruiting qualified applicants for the position of Firefighter and Firefighters with Paramedic licenses. This website was designed to assist potential applicants with information regarding our recruitment and selection process.

Welcome and thank you very much for your interest in joining the talented team of professionals at Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue!

Our organization has an extraordinary history and tradition of excellence that has helped define and refine our strong core values and unrelenting expectations.  We continue to raise the bar for the future.  We are extremely motivated in our purpose and unwavering in our commitment to provide the highest level of safety and quality of service to the community.  We are actively engaged and compassionate participants as well, driven by… Our Vision to be a leader in providing Fire Protection, Rescue, Emergency Medical and Community Risk Reduction Services.

Our talented team is exceptional throughout all ranks and roles, truly the best of the best!  Our city’s newest Fire Station no. 1 will be joined by a new Fire Station no. 2 that is currently in the design phase.  Additionally, we are progressing forward with our new Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue Regional Training Facility that has been approved and funded. Along with an impressive apparatus fleet, USAR program, Community Risk Reduction Program, and Ambulance Transportation Program, the department has also received the assignment of three Cal OES statewide mutual aid engines (Type I, Type III & Type VI).

This is all highlighted by our extremely close-knit fire family, making Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue one of the premier fire and rescue departments to be a part of.  We are professionals through and through, accentuated by our quality depth, innovation, performance and balance in all that we do.  This includes the strong leadership and unparalleled mentoring of our personnel throughout the organization, that helps define our outstanding, robust, and compassionate service to the community.

Again, thank you for your interest in becoming part of the Costa Mesa fire family!  Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue is stronger than ever and the future of our organization remains locked in on our powerful trajectory forward and continues to shine extremely bright.  We are making it happen, together, and this opportunity to join our fire family is the opportunity of a lifetime!  Your time is now!     

Daniel A. Stefano
Fire Chief

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