Chico Fire Department

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This is the official Facebook page of the Chico Fire Department. The Chico Fire Department Facebook page is a purposefully limited, controlled and monitored online site, established for the limited purpose to provide information of public interest concerning the Chico Fire Department's programs, activities, and events, and related news, stories, photographs and videos.

This Facebook page is NOT the forum if you need fire assistance for an emergency. If you have an emergency, or to report an in-progress incident, please call 911. For non-emergencies, please call the Chico Dispatch Center, at 530-895-4911.

By submitting, posting, or commenting on this page, you acknowledge having read, reviewed, and agreed to the terms and conditions of use as set forth herein. In doing so, we would like to remind users that this is a family friendly page, and as a result, we respectfully request that posts and comments also be respectful, civil, and courteous. All postings and comments are subject to the following terms and conditions of use established by the Chico Fire Department:

• The Chico Fire Department Facebook page is not meant for comments that do not directly relate to the purpose of topical scope of the page.

• Only comments consistent with the terms and conditions set froth herein will be allowed. Posts and comments containing any of the following forms of content or language are not allowed. Consistent with the purpose of this page, the Chico Fire Department reserves the right to restrict, reject, remove or delete posts or comments that are, or contain, the following, or to block users who post comments with content in violation of the following:

- Content of language not directly related to the purpose and topical scope of this page, including comments unrelated to the original topic or article posted by the Chico Fire Department, that are off-topic, or are out of context.

- Profane, derogatory, or obscene terms, language or content.

- "Fighting words" or threatening language, including threats of violence to any person, property, or organization.

- Harassing, intimidating, defamatory, bullying or "trolling" content or language.

- Discriminatory language or content, including language or content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuated discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, material status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, as well as any category protected by local, state or federal law.

- Incites, encourages or promotes violence or criminal conduct or activity.

- Cotent, language, or information that may tend to or reasonably compromise the safety or security of the public, fire staff and firefighters, or public systems or infrastructures.

- Advertisements, promotions, of solicitation of a commercial product, services, entity or individual.

- Endorsements or promotions in favor of, or in opposition to, a political campaign, a candidate campaigning for election to political office, or ballot measures.

- Sexual content, sexual violence, nudity, or images or descriptions of sexual acts.

- Content that contains confidential, proprietary, or sensitive personal information about any public or private individual.

- Copyrighted material, intellectual property, or other content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party.

- Apparent spam or robe-spam and comments by automatic software programs and/or repetitive posts.

- Posts or comment that contain any external links.

- Content or conduct that violates any local, state or federal law, code or regulation.

• This page and its content are managed by the Chico Fire Department. All comments posted to this page are subject to monitoring and review by the Chico Fire Department. The Chico Fire Department reserves the right to remove, amend, revise, edit or correct its own postings from this Facebook page. The Chico Fire Department reserves the right to restrict, remove, reject, or prohibit postings with content violating the terms and conditions of use as discussed herein and above, or to block users posting said prohibited content. The Chico Fire Department reserves the right to deny access to its Facebook page to any individual who violates these terms and conditions of use, at any time and without prior notice.

• Any attempt to hack or otherwise compromise this page is prohibited.

• This page is not monitored 24/7. Hower, the City of Chico Fire Department will review the site and comments on a regular basis.

• The Chico Fire Department is not responsible for, and neither endorses nor opposes, comments posted on this page by visitors to it. Commenters participate at their own risk, and are personally responsible for their own comments, username, or any information they provide or post on this page. The Chico Fire Department is not responsible, nor does it control, posts or comments that were voluntarily removed or deleted by users.

• Please keep in mind that this is an internet page on Facebook.com. Facebook owns and operated Facebook.com, and has its own policies, "Terms of Service" and "Community Standards" concerning what may, and may not be posted, and the actions that it may take with regard to prohibited posts. For more information see https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms or https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards@cs-header. The Chico Fire Department reserves its right to report any violations of Facebook's Terms of Service or Community Standards to Facebook, with the intent of Facebook taking appropriate and responsive action.

• The City of Chico and the Chico Fire Department's use of external social media is provided as a public service. The City disclaims liability for advertisements, videos, promoted content, or comments accessible from any external web page. The responsibility of external content of comments rest with the organizations or individual providing them. The inclusion of external content or comments on social media sites down not imply endorsement by the City of Chico or the Chico Fire Department.

• Comments submitted for posting, whether approved for posting or blocked, and any other content on the Chico Fire Department Facebook page, may be subject to any applicable local or state policies and law for control, use, retention, and destruction of records. Comments submitted for posting, whether approved for posting or blocked, and any other content on the Chico Fire Department Facebook page, may also be considered public records subject to the California Public Records Act.

• There is no expectation of privacy in information submitted to or posted on the Chico Fire Department Facebook page by an employee or any other person.

For official information about the Chico Fire Department please visit:
http://www.chico.ca.us/fire/home_page.asp

Mission

To provide the highest quality fire, rescue and emergency services to the Chico Community in a caring and professional manner.