The Forrest City Fire Department has an Public Protection Classification/ISO class 3 rating. The Department has averaged 1300 incidents per year recently. Forrest City Fire Department has mutual aid agreements with all 8 volunteer fire departments and several other emergency agencies in St. Francis County, which is 685 square miles. The Forrest City Fire Department’s first response area has approximately 22,000 residents and around 7,000 structures including the Federal Correctional Institution-Forrest City, 30 miles of Interstate 40, which has been recognized as the busiest section of interstate in the United States, several manufacturing and warehousing complexes, and numerous hazardous materials storage facilities. It has been documented that approximately 40,000 vehicles pass through Forrest City on I-40 each day. And our fire district protects active railroads running east and west and north and south through our district and multiple large diameter natural gas and propane transmission pipelines that are buried through our district. Also in our rural response area is Crowley’s Ridge, a naturally formed section of hills and valleys that run through the Delta area, several pine tree plantations, peach tree orchards, acres of farm and crop land and wide-spread forestry and vegetation acres that have residential, farm shop and other structures constructed throughout.