The Jerome Volunteer Fire Department services the Town of Jerome in north central Arizona. Jerome is situated 5,000 feet up on the side of Mingus Mountain which itself rises to over 7,000 feet. Originally, a booming copper mining town, Jerome is now a thriving artist and tourist community of approximately 400 citizens.
The Jerome Volunteer Fire Department provides Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Rescue, and Wildland Services to the community and surrounding areas. We cover a geographical domain of over 500 square miles - twenty miles north and twenty miles south of Jerome along the mountain's face - nine miles west to the mountain's peak - and four miles to the valley below. Most of that area is rough wilderness terrain. We also have mutual aid agreements with the neighboring communities of Clarkdale, Cottonwood, Cornville, and their surrounding rural areas.
The Dept. has a current membership of twenty-five men and women.
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