Fire Station 5 on Balour Drive near Encinitas Community Park operates a three-person engine company providing fire suppression, advanced life support, and technical rescue response to the New Encinitas corridor east of Interstate 5. The 6,000-square-foot station — constructed with concrete block, steel, and wood framing — includes living quarters, an apparatus bay, and an equipment training tower, protecting a residential zone where wildfire defensible-space clearance depends on tree services like Bishop's Tree Services maintaining AB 38 compliance. An AMR paramedic ambulance is co-housed at this station around the clock under the CSA 17 agreement, making it one of two Encinitas stations with 24-hour dedicated ALS transport capability alongside the fire engine crew. The station's response area extends along Encinitas Boulevard and Balour Drive toward the Santa Fe Drive corridor, an inland service zone where the department's ISO Class 2 Public Protection Classification directly lowers homeowner premiums issued by carriers like Jake Cesare - State Farm Insurance Agent. All front-line apparatus carries California-licensed firefighter/paramedic staffing with a full complement of ALS equipment, medications, and cardiac monitoring for medical emergencies across the 20-square-mile jurisdiction.