Lake County Fire Protection District

Lake County Fire Protection District, doing business as Lakeshore Fire Dept, is a U.S. local government entity based in Clearlake, California, that receives federal grant funding for emergency response and firefighting operations — operating as a prime grant recipient and sub-recipient on FEMA and state emergency-services awards, with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint. The organization functions as a municipal fire protection authority and does not compete for federal contracts under set-asides or full-and-open procurement.

Lake County Fire Protection District's federal grant activity centers on two primary sources: FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters Grants program and California's Office of Emergency Services acting as the pass-through prime grantee. As a prime recipient, the district holds a FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant awarded July 17, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of July 16, 2026. The district also receives sub-grant funding through the Office of Emergency Services to reimburse extraordinary costs incurred during emergency response operations — most recently a September 2026 award to cover the Lake County Fire Protection District's costs for emergency protective measures and firefighting response during the Boyles Fire event (September 8–11, 2024), and an earlier sub-grant in August 2022 for Cache Fire emergency response. The combined obligated dollars across all five awards in the source data total $561 thousand.

Activity is sparse and episodic across the five-year window captured in the source: one award each in 2011, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026. All five awards draw from two distinct customer agencies — the Federal Emergency Management Agency (4 awards) and the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service (1 award). The district operates exclusively in the grant and sub-grant space; it holds no seat on federal contract vehicles, manages no IDIQs or BPAs, and carries no contract subcontract relationships. The organization's federal posture is that of a local responder entity accessing disaster relief and emergency-services reimbursement programs rather than a service vendor competing for federal procurement.