Service areas
Where we work, and who reviews the plans there.
Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric is a service-area business based in Castroville. The work happens at your building, throughout Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, plus southern Santa Clara County.
Site visits and estimates at your building. After-hours service available.
What we do out there
Four counties, and the same four kinds of work in all of them.
The offices and the paperwork are further down this page. This is the work itself, in the order owners ask for it, and it is the same in every county we cover.
- Fire alarm service and repair
- A panel in trouble, a failed device, a battery that will not hold. Including systems other contractors installed, subject to manufacturer software, training and access to the system.
- Fire alarm inspection and testing
- Periodic inspection and testing, and a written report of what was tested and any deficiency found.
- Fire alarm monitoring
- Arranged through us. We do the programming, and a third-party central monitoring station receives the signals.
- Fire alarm installation and new construction
- New buildings, tenant improvements and system replacements, working directly with general contractors. We handle the plan submittal, the permit and the acceptance test with the office that has jurisdiction. What that office decides, and when, is theirs.
The territory
Four counties, and where that actually reaches.
Where Moro Cojo Alarms & Electric works
Counties served, with example communities. Santa Clara County is served in its southern portion only.
- Counties served
- Santa Clara County outline; southern portion served
- Communities served
We work throughout Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, plus southern Santa Clara County. The work happens at your building.
- Monterey County
- Salinas, Monterey, Seaside, Marina, Castroville
- Santa Cruz County
- Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Capitola, Scotts Valley
- San Benito County
- Hollister, San Juan Bautista
- Santa Clara County, southern portion
- Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Martin
How this works
Coverage is by county. Requirements are by jurisdiction.
There is no showroom and no counter to walk up to. Estimates and service happen where the system is, so the useful question is not how far we drive but which office has authority over your building.
The published record
Four offices in the whole territory put a fire alarm process in writing.
We read what the fire authorities across all four counties publish on their own sites. Four of them describe a fire alarm submittal in their own words: Watsonville, Scotts Valley, Morgan Hill and Santa Clara County Fire.
Everywhere else it is folded into a general building or fire permit, or nothing is published at all. That is not a criticism; most of these offices are small. But it changes what you can learn before work starts. In Watsonville you can read the device-by-device list of what belongs in the package. Twenty miles away the requirement is just as real, and the only way to learn it is to ask.
So each county below says what its offices publish and where to read it, with the day we opened the page. Offices rename themselves and arrangements change here, so the date is part of the fact.
One distinction we would rather draw ourselves: this is what these fire authorities publish. It is not a claim that we have worked in these cities. Process knowledge and job history are different things.
Monterey County
Eleven offices, and no published fire alarm process.
The largest county here is the most divided: city departments, independent districts, and one prevention office shared between three districts. We opened eleven of their pages and not one sets out a fire alarm submittal. What they publish instead varies widely, which is the part worth reading.
Santa Cruz County
Two itemized lists, and they are not the same list.
Half of the territory's written fire alarm requirements sit in one county. Watsonville and Scotts Valley each publish what a submittal has to contain, and reading one is not the same as knowing the other.
San Benito County
One bureau for the county, and one honest gap.
San Benito is the smallest of the four counties by business count and it gets the longest section here, because it is where the published picture is both simplest and least settled.
The simple part first. Where the other counties spread fire prevention across a dozen offices, San Benito's published authority is one: the Fire Prevention Bureau of the Hollister Fire Department. Its page lists plan review for new construction and fire protection systems, fire code permits and fire and life safety inspections, and the department says it took on San Benito County and San Juan Bautista in 2013. For an owner that is good news: one number to call rather than a hunt for the right jurisdiction.
Now the gap, stated plainly, because the alternative is to guess. How fire services in the unincorporated county are arranged today is something we could not verify from any primary source. The county's own site refused every request we made, and the public reporting is not merely thin, it contradicts itself: different accounts give different dates, different terms and different providers, and they cannot all be current. So this page names no contract, no term, no status and no provider for the unincorporated county. If you see a fire alarm company asserting one, ask where they read it.
In practice that matters less than it sounds. Arrangements between agencies move; the requirement on your building does not move with them. We work with whichever authority has jurisdiction over your address, and we confirm that at the start of a job rather than assuming it.
Request a free estimateTell us the city and we will tell you who reviews it.
Southern Santa Clara County
Three front doors inside about twenty miles.
We serve the southern part of Santa Clara County, not the whole county. Within it, an email address, an online portal and a county counter each take submittals a different way, and one of the three is recent: Santa Clara County Fire Department took over the areas previously covered by the South Santa Clara County Fire District onJuly 1, 2025.
What this means for you
Find the office first. Everything else follows from it.
Three things are worth settling early on any job that touches a fire alarm system.
- Settle jurisdiction before design
- City limits and fire district boundaries are not the same lines. A building outside a city can sit inside a district, outside every district, or be routed to a county counter. Getting it wrong costs a review cycle.
- Ask what the package has to contain
- In four jurisdictions here the list is published and you can read it. Everywhere else it is real but unwritten, which is a reason to ask rather than to assume there is nothing to meet.
- Ask about turnaround and fees
- Where a turnaround is published it runs ten to fourteen business days, up to two weeks, or ten business days. Some offices release approved plans only once fees are paid; others send payment details after approval.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction, occupancy and system, and the local fire prevention office is where they are confirmed. Tell us the city and what the building is, and we work with the authority that has jurisdiction over it.
Request a free estimate
Tell us where the building is, and what it needs.
Estimates are free and they happen at your building. Send the city and a short description, and we will come back to you about the work and the office that reviews it.
Prefer to talk?
(831) 455-5858After-hours service available. Ask about availability for your site when you call.