Emergencies 911 Administration 706-613-3360 Other Numbers Emergency Management: 706-613-3410 Fire Marshal: 706-613-3363 Fire Prevention: 706-613-3365 Administration Hours 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Director Chief Iby George  Administration / Station #1 700 College Avenue Location Map Mailing Address P.O. Box 1868 Athens, GA 30603 Stations #1 - 700 College Avenue   Location Map #2 - 3500 Atlanta Highway Location Map  #3 - 1198 S. Milledge Ave. Location Map  #4 - 900 Oglethorpe Ave. Location Map  #5 - 1099 Whit Davis Road Location Map  #6 - 580 Athena Drive Location Map  #7 - 2350 Barnett Shoals Road Location Map  #8 - 3955 Jefferson Road Location Map #9 - 1650 Dainelsville Road Location Map Fire Training Center 155 Paradise Blvd. Location Map

new! Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services personnel responded to a call at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, about a fire at the J & J Chemical Company on Trans Tech Drive in Athens.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, and the building was unoccupied when the fire was discovered. There are no known injuries. Fire Department personnel are working with the University of Georgia's Hazard Assessment Response Team (HART), which provides air and water monitoring, and HEPACO, a private company hired by J & J Chemical, to assist with environmental monitoring. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) has been contacted.

Citizens may see black smoke and smell the chemicals coming from the area. The smoke and chemical smell are not life threatening, but may be an irritant.

Elderly residents can contact the Fire Prevention Bureau for free smoke detectors with installation & annual inspections.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program helps train citizens to be better prepared to respond to emergency situations in their day-to-day life and when joined together with other likewise prepared people, in and around their communities. Call 706-353-1645 for details or visit http://eastgeorgia.redcross.org/CERT/

Emergency prepardness begins at the individual and family level. Find out ways to be prepared for severe weather in general, severe thunderstorms and/or lightning, or tornados.

Athens-Clarke County ordinance prohibits most open burns. For more information, check out our online ordinances or call the Fire Marshal's office.

The Fire Department sponsors Explorer Post #757. The Explorer program is for young men and women between the ages of 14 and 20 and designed to allow them to gain practical knowledge of and experience in a career while taking on leadership roles and learning and growing in a supportive, caring, and enjoyable environment. For more information, call 706-613-3383.

Fire & Emergency Services Department

Mission Statement
The Athens-Clarke County Fire & Emergency Services, is a progressive and responsive department dedicated to the preservation of life and property through prevention, education, mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery programs.

Project Safe Place
In August of 2000, the Athens Regional

Attention Home and the Athens-Clarke County Fire Department formed a partnership to make sure that children don't feel they have to stay in a bad situation. The Fire Department has agreed to allow all seven of its fire stations to become safe place sites.

Project Safe Place is a national program that was started in 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky. The purpose of the program is to assure that kids who are homeless, runaway, or in a crisis situation can get the help they need. Any business depicting the safe place symbol below is a safe place site. A youth can enter and tell the employee that they need help. That employee will call the local youth shelter and a trained volunteer will come out to meet that young person.

If anyone would like to become a volunteer for the Safe Place program please call 706-548-5893 and ask for Tammy Ford.