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Departments We Serve
Consolidated Fire Dist. 2
Gardner Public Safety
Johnson County Fire Dist. 1
Johnson County Fire Dist. 2
Johnson County MedAct
Lake Quivira Fire Dept.
Leawood Fire Dept.
Lenexa Fire Dept.
Merriam Fire Dept.
Miami County EMS
Northwest Con. Fire District
Olathe Fire Dept.
Overland Park Fire Dept.
Shawnee Fire Dept.
L I N K S
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:
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:
Johnson County, Kansas County Communications Center
11880 S Sunset Dr, Olathe, KS 66061
Phone: 913-826-1000
Fax: 913-826-1019
