Emergencies 911 Administration 706-613-3360 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   #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  Other Numbers Emergency Management: 706-613-3410 Fire Marshal: 706-613-3363 Fire Prevention: 706-613-3365

NEW! The Fire Department's 8th Annual "Burnin' Up the Blacktop 5K Race" will be Saturday, July 26. The 5k begins at 8 a.m. and the "Little Flame 1 Mile Fun Run" begins at

7:30 a.m. (change).

The 5k and 1 mile start/finish will take place in downtown Athens at Fire Station # 1. The course will run through the downtown area of Athens and also incorporate parts of the North Oconee Greenway. All proceeds will go to the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.

Registration is $15.00 prior to July 19. After this date, and on race day, registration is $18.00. There is a family registration of $50.00 (pre-registration only). Citizens can obtain a registration form at Fire Station #1 by e-mailing Nancy Cochran. Or, citizens can register online.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program helps train people 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/

Athens-Clarke County's ISO rating improves. Read more.

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 an Explorer Post. The Explorer program is for young men and women between the ages of 15 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.

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 548-5893 and ask for Tammy Ford.