To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Gwinnett County Fire Department will hold an open house at each of Gwinnett County’s 30 fire stations on March 20 from 2-4 p.m. Citizens are invited to tour the stations, view apparatus and equipment displays and learn valuable public fire and life safety information.
The Gwinnett County Fire Department handled its first emergency call on March 30, 1971. That year, the department had one station, 10 personnel and a budget of $89,000. Now, the department has 30 strategically placed community fire stations, a fire and EMS training academy, a fire investigations section, a community risk reduction/education/inspection/code enforcement section, a business services division and an operations division. The department currently employs 850 people and has a budget of $76 million.
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