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The RCOFD operates 93 fire stations in 17 battalions, providing fire suppression, emergency medical, rescue, and fire prevention services. The department's service area is organized into six divisions. The equipment used by the department has the versatility to respond to both urban and wildland emergency conditions. The RCOFD inventory includes structural engines, rural engines, brush engines, telesquirts, trucks, paramedic units, a helicopter, hazardous materials unit, incident command units, water tenders, fire crew vehicles, mobile communications centers, breathing support units, lighting units, power supply units, fire dozers, mobile training vans, and mobile emergency feeding units. The Riverside County Fire Department is the Operational Area Coordinator for the California Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System for all fire service jurisdictions in the County of Riverside. Riverside County Fire Departmentalso has several automatic aid agreements with other city jurisdictions as well as the adjacent National Forests. The County of Riverside contracts with the State of California for fire protection. Public Resources Code (PRC) 4142 affords legal authority for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to enter into agreements with local government entities to provide fire protection services with the approval of the Department of General Services. By virtue of this authority, CDF administers the Riverside County Fire Department. CDF is primarily a wildland fire protection agency with the legal responsibility for protection of approximately 33 million acres of private and state lands in California. The Riverside Unit of CDF (with headquarters in Perris) provides direct protection for 1,070,000 acres of " wildland." These vegetation-covered, watershed lands are designated by the State Board of Forestry as state responsibility areas. This is generally private land, outside of incorporated cities and federally owned land, where the organized protection force is at maximum strength during the declared "fire season."