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Fire Hoses
Security Team Member

COMMUNITY RESILIENCY CENTER

The Gold Country Fairgrounds and Community Resilience Centers Program focuses on improving our fairgrounds and other community facilities to enhance the state’s emergency preparedness capabilities, particularly in response to climate change.

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PG&E Winter Storm Staging 

The Gold Country Fairgrounds provides a space for PG&E and affiliated crews to stage during inclement weather.

Mosquito Fire

in September 2022

The Gold Country Fairgrounds served as base camp for  firefighters and the clean up crews. We were also the incident’s large-animal evacuation center.

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Horse Legs
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The 49 Fire in August 2009, the Gold County Fair served as base camp for approximately 400 firefighters.  The site was designated as the incident’s large-animal evacuation center, providing overnight shelter for more than 15 horses.

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The River Fire in 2021 the fairgrounds parking lot was filled with rows of fire trucks, tankers and other firefighting equipment.

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