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The Junction City Fire Department is a full time paid department consisting of two stations. Headquarters at 700 N. Jefferson Street and Station II at 2245 Lacy Drive. The Junction City Fire Department currently operates with 3 shifts. Our current rotation consists of 24 hours on duty, 48 hours off duty. Each shift operates with a minimum manning of 13 on duty with 18 assigned to each shift. Headquarters operates with 11 personnel (minimum requirement of 7). Personnel consists of 1 Battalion Chief, 1 Captain, 1 Firefighter/Paramedic and 8 Firefighter/EMTs. Station II operates with 7 personnel (minimum requirement of 6) 1 Captain, 1 Firefighter/Paramedic and 5 Firefighters/EMTs. The first out apparatus must be staffed with a minimum of 4 personnel. The Junction City Fire Department currently operates with 1 Fire Chief, 1 Fire Marshall, 1 Office Manager, 3 Battalion Chiefs, 6 Captains, 6 Firefighter/Paramedic's and 39 Firefighter/EMTs. The Junction City Fire Department currently provides Fire Protection throughout all of the City limits of Junction City, which is about 8.0 square miles. Our EMS coverage is for all of Geary County which is 404 square miles. We responded in 2007 to 1,079 fire incidents and 2,402 EMS calls for an average of 9.5 calls per shift. The following is a response history of the last 6 years.
The Junction City Fire Department has four Certified Fire Investigators for investigation of fire incident responses. In 2006 there were 30 suspicious fires that were investigated as arson. We currently have mutual aid agreements for Fire Protection with the following agencies: Abilene, Kansas; Grandview Plaza, Kansas; Fort Riley, Kansas; Milford, Kansas; and Geary County.
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