First organized in 1890 as a volunteer force, the Mill Valley Fire Department has come a long way from its days…More of beating fires out with wet potato sacks and an old 1924 American La France. Firefighters are specialized in a wide-range of skills in addition to firefighting and emergency medicine, including fire investigations, high-angle cliff rescue, Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams, CPR and first aid instruction.</p> <p>Mill Valley's heavily wooded canyons and the steep terrain of the community have the department on constant alert for the threat of a major wild fire. The department's two stations are manned with seven fire fighters on duty and 24 line personnel, using four pieces of equipment on a shift: two engines with 500 gallons of water each, one wildland fire engine and one command truck.</p> <p>The main fire station is located at the City of Mill Valley's Public Safety Building on Hamilton Drive.</p>

First organized in 1890 as a volunteer force, the Mill Valley Fire Department has come a long way from its days…More of beating fires out with wet potato sacks and an old 1924 American La France. Firefighters are specialized in a wide range of skills in addition to firefighting and emergency medicine, including fire investigations, high-angle cliff rescue, Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams, CPR and first aid instruction.</p> <p>Mill Valley's heavily wooded canyons and the steep terrain of the community have the department on constant alert for the threat of a major wildfire. The department's two stations are manned with seven fire fighters on duty and 24 line personnel, using four pieces of equipment on a shift: Two engines with 500 gallons of water each, one wildland fire engine and one command truck.</p>

On land inhabited by the Coast Miwok as many as 12,000 years ago, Mill Valley spawned from a Mexican government land…More grant to set up Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio on a wide swath of Southern Marin. The grant was issued in 1834 to John Thomas Reed, who built the town's namesake sawmill in Old Mill Park to provide lumber for the new military post being built in the Presidio in San Francisco. </p> <p>The town was incorporated in September 1900, and the first Town Hall was constructed seven years later. By 1910, the town's population was 2,500 and has only grown to 13,200, as of 2008. The current City Hall was built in 1937. Public buildings and facilities opened throughout the decades, but City Hall remained the hub for local government.</p> <p>While the Public Safety Building, constructed in the 1970s, is home to the city's police and fire departments, most city agencies are housed at City Hall. City Manager Jim McCann coordinates all city departments through eight department directors, Police Chief, Fire Chief, Director of Planning and Building, Public Works Director, Finance and Human Resources Director, Parks and Recreation Director, City Librarian, and the General Manager of the Wastewater Treatment Plant.</p>