The present California Volunteer Fire Department was born in December of 1907. It had its home in the old Borough Building at 321 Fourth St.. The only equipment they had was a hand-drawn hose cart and 1200 feet of fire hose. In 1909, the department moved into a frame building at the corner of First and Wood St.. This was donated, along with a whistle, a nozzle, coats, boots and a hose cart by the late R.B. Drum, then general Superintendent of the Vesta Coal Company.