The San José del Cabo Fire Department handled 866 emergency calls during the first three months of 2026, averaging roughly 10 responses per day across four active stations in the Los Cabos municipality.
Commander Omar Barreras Núñez reported that 536 of those calls were prehospital medical emergencies, while 330 involved fire-related incidents. That breaks down to an average of six medical calls and four fire calls daily, spread among the department’s stations covering the San José del Cabo area.
Semana Santa Brought a 23% Spike in Calls
Emergency calls during Semana Santa (Holy Week) jumped 23% compared to the same holiday period in 2025. The increase tracks with the annual surge of domestic and international visitors to the Los Cabos corridor, which stretches roughly 30 kilometers between San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas along the Transpeninsular Highway.
The department is staffed by roughly 80 active firefighters and paramedics, according to publicly available records. In 2021, for comparison, the same department logged 2,169 medical emergencies and responded to 163 residential or commercial fires, 58 wildland fires, and 177 vehicle accidents over the full year.
How to Reach Emergency Services
Barreras Núñez reminded residents and visitors that in any emergency they should call 911. The department also operates a direct line at (624) 189-10-82, available around the clock through the Centro de Control y Monitoreo (C2), the municipality’s monitoring center.
The fire department’s four stations cover a wide geographic area that includes downtown San José del Cabo, the hotel zone along the Tourist Corridor, and more rural communities inland. With Los Cabos continuing to grow as both a residential and tourism hub, the pace of emergency calls has risen in recent years.
This report was first published by the Los Cabos municipal government and covered by Radar Político.