The Johnson County Emergency Communications Center (ECC) serves an area of approximately five-hundred and fifty square miles in suburban and rural Johnson and Miami counties. The ECC dispatches more than forty-thousand calls per year to Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for fourteen departments.
Johnson County is one of eight counties which makes up the metropolitan Kansas City area. Each of the county’s fire departments have implemented automatic aid agreements with the other departments for both fire and critical medical calls. Satellite technology installed on most of the units allows ECC staff to dispatch the closest ambulance and fire unit to calls.
The ECC is organized into the following departments:
Departments We Serve
Consolidated
Fire Dist. 2
De
Soto Fire Dept.
Gardner
Public Safety
Johnson
County Fire Dist. 1
Johnson
County Fire Dist. 2
Johnson County Fire Dist. 3
Johnson
County MedAct
Lake Quivira Fire Dept.
Leawood
Fire Dept.
Lenexa
Fire Dept.
Merriam
Fire Dept.
Olathe
Fire Dept.
Overland
Park Fire Dept.
Shawnee Fire Dept.
Johnson County, Kansas Emergency Communications Center
6000 Lamar, Mission, KS 66202
Phone: 913-826-1000
Fax: 913-432-8974
Thirty-seven employees make the ECC their second home as most staff members work twelve hour shifts. Along with dispatching fire and EMS calls, the ECC staff is involved in a number of public safety initiatives in Johnson County and the Kansas City Region.
The ECC serves as lead agency and contact for:
