Redding Firefighters

03/25/2026

11/29/2025

Help Local Families!

This Sunday, December 7th @ Station 8, 0930-1130, Redding Firefighters will be hosting Santa Claus for your Christmas family photos. Last year the proceeds from this event helped provide some Christmas cheer for 4 local families. Grab your ugly Christmas sweater and head to Station 8 for a chance to see Santa; he’s got his list and he’s checking it twice…

Thank you to the Brown family for continuing this tradition of giving and kindness during the holiday season.

Hope to see you there!

11/15/2025

Please join Redding Firefighters and the First Responder Community in celebrating Suzie Smith.

Tonight @ 6pm at the Redding Civic Center family, friends, and coworkers will come together to remember, honor and memorialize Suzie’s life, her career and her sacrifice.

For those unable to attend please take a moment to pause and consider this wonderful wife, Mom, Grandmother and caregiver as we memorialize a life well lived.

For those planning on attending please exercise caution with travel. Anticipate large crowds, long wait times, heightened emotions and mostly give one another grace and understanding during a difficult time.

As always Redding Firefighters and cooperating First Responder agencies remain fully staffed, ready to protect this community against whatever comes our way, whatever the cost.

In the same manner when we lose a brother, we’ll always be waiting on one.

Be well Susie. You are missed.

10/11/2025

Redding Firefighters are saddened to share the news that Susan “Suzie” Smith has passed away as a result of the injuries sustained during the accident involving REACH 5 in the Sacramento area on Monday evening.

The entire Redding Fire Family and Shasta County First Responder community requests you lift this family in your thoughts and prayers during this unimaginably difficult time. We are proud to support Suzie’s family during their time of need.

The loss of Suzie will be felt for a long time to come; hopefully that loss will also prompt fond remembrance for her impact to her patients, her coworkers, and the entire community. It is through these memories we honor her work, her spirit and her sacrifice.

Until we see her again, always waiting on one.

10/08/2025

Redding Firefighters and Citizens for a Better Redding working together to make our community safe, and family friendly.

What is Measure A? Measure A is a citizen led initiative designed to allocate specific funds to enhancing and improving public safety, roads, parks, Redding Regional Airport, and our beautiful river access to the Sacramento River in the heart of town.

As a citizen led movement these sectors have been designated as priorities for our community and will be the recipients of the dollars generated by this initiative. Allocation of these dollars cannot be changed without voter approval.

For more information click the link in bio and learn about the great things in store for our Community.

10/07/2025

The Redding Fire Family kindly asks for the community to join us in support and thoughtful prayer for the crew members of REACH 5.

Please take a moment and think of these first responders and their families as they work through the sadness, chaos and emotion in the coming days following yesterday’s tragic incident in the Sacramento area. Out of respect for the crew and their families names of those involved will not be distributed in social media postings.

We are proud to support our local area brother and sister first responders in their time of need and hope you will join us in that effort.

Thank you to the quick, professional response from members of and hospital staff in the area as they worked together on behalf of the injured crew members.

More info to follow in the coming days on how to effectively and properly support these families.

Photo credit: AMR Shasta FB

07/19/2025

Congrats to these young men representing Redding and Shasta County!

Good luck!

05/07/2025

You’re invited!!!!

Redding Firefighters invite you to bring your best team to Sun Oaks for the inaugural Redding Firefighters Pickleball Tournament, Saturday June 28th, 5-10PM.

Proceeds from this event will be applied toward the Station 8 Memorial Wall Project.

Thank you to all who have donated and we hope to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blazing-paddles-pickleball-tournament-tickets-1304833826099? utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

04/18/2025

Hope to see you there!

11/19/2024

Come see Santa Claus at Fire Station 8!

Redding Firefighters are proud to host Santa Claus for the second year in a row; you’re invited to Fire Station 8, Saturday, December 7th, 0930-1130 to see the big guy and take a picture with him. Stop by, say hi, tell him if you’ve been naughty or nice and have a cup of hot chocolate! No reservations needed, photos taken on a first come, first served basis.

Proceeds from this event will be used to sponsor a family in need this Christmas Season. Hope to see you there!




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08/06/2024

Redding Firefighters are asking you to consider Don & Debbie Andrews.

Don is a local dozer operator who lost his home during the Park Fire while working suppression operations on a separate fire, he has since been reassigned to the Park Incident. While away his wife, Debbie, had enough time to load a vehicle and their 3 dogs before the Park Fire impacted their home.

Don is a long term operator, having started in 1987 on the Fountain Fire, an incident that put Shasta County of the statewide fire map. Since then it seems as if at some point in someone’s career they will find themselves in Shasta County wondering if it’s always this hot, this steep, and if fires are as intense as they encounter. The answer is, yes. Always. He is the brother of Redding Fire LODD Fire Captain Ed Andrews, and uncle to Acting Fire Captain Eddie Andrews. In 2018 he was actively working suppression operations during the Carr Fire and was involved in the burn over that took Brother Jeremy Stoke from us.

Please consider helping Don and his family. A gofundme has been established by their family to assist them during this trying time.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-andrews-get-some-basic-needs?attribution_id=sl:319548d0-fbc6-4323-a911-cabde678da56&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet_ai&utm_content=amp1v4&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link