High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, or Sac Metro Fire for short, is a special-purpose district that provides fire protection to the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County along with the cities of Rancho Cordova and Citrus Heights. The agency is a combination of 16 smaller fire departments that merged together. The last merger was December, 2000 when American River Fire and Sacramento County Fire merged into the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.