Menlo Park Fire Protection District
Ryan McGraw is currently working as a Fire Inspector and Fire Investigator at Menlo Park Fire Protection District, since March 2020 and as a Volunteer Fire Fighter at HALF MOON BAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT since March 2019. Previously, Ryan was the Owner and Operations Manager at Seamless Fire Protection from June 2015 to March 2020, specializing in fire protection systems fabrication and design, heavy machine operation and maintenance, computer-aided plan design and water calculations, as well as metal welding and fabrication. Ryan also has experience in health education, serving as a Health Education Intern at San Francisco State University and a Health Education Teaching Assistant. Ryan holds a BS in Health Education from San Francisco State University, an AS in Fire Science from City College of San Francisco, and an AS in General Education from Santa Rosa Junior College.
Menlo Park Fire Protection District
The District covers a 30 square mile area near Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area for the communities of Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto, sections of Stanford University and unincorporated parts of Southern San Mateo County serving a greater community of 93,000 residents. The District has seven stations that are strategically placed to provide the most efficient response times and responds to approximately 8,500 emergencies a year with about 60% of them being emergency medical incidents. The Fire Board oversees fire protection, policy, budget and staff related issues. The District is also the hosting agence for the California Task Force Three (CA-TF3) Urban Search and Rescue Team: This unit operates under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). As the sponsoring agency, the Menlo Park Fire Protection District has the responsibility of managing the team, preparing the group to respond to any incident within California or the United States. CA-TF3 is a specially trained and equipped 80 person Urban Search and Rescue Task Force consisting of 18 participating agencies and 60 civilians.