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III. Environmental Setting, Impacts,and Mitigations C. Community Services and Utilities Fire and Emergency Medical Protection Fire and emergency medical service is provided to all unincorporated areas of the County, including the proposed project expansion area,by the San Joaquin County Fire Prevention Bureau(Sims, 1993). Fire and emergency medical protection service in the incorporated City of Stockton,including the current Austin Landfill site,is provided by the City of Stockton Fire Department(Cruz, 1993). The San Joaquin County Fire Prevention Bureau currently provides fire and emergency medical services to the proposed project expansion areas. According to the Bureau,those areas historically have required a relatively low-level of fire and emergency medical service(Sims, 1993). The primary responder to the study areas is the County Fire Station Number 33 at the corner of Lathrop Road and Austin Road, approximately three and one-quarter miles south of the site. Emergency response time to the site from that station is approximately five and one-half minutes (Sims, 1993). San Joaquin County's service ratio policy is that fire stations be maintained within six minutes or four miles of all service targets in rural areas(San Joaquin County, 1992). The site is currently within that range for County fire and emergency medical service. All incorporated and unincorporated areas of San Joaquin County are under County- wide mutual aid agreements (Sims, 1993). The existing Austin Road Landfill,which is part of the City of Stockton service area,is primarily served by the Stockton City Fire Department. The Stockton Fire Department is composed of 250 personnel,in addition to eleven firehouses, 11 fire engines,and three trucks (Cruz, 1993). The City is divided into seven fire districts and response times within the Districts average approximately three and one-half minutes. The nearest fire station to the site is the station at East Main Street,approximately five and one-half miles north of the project site. The current site and landfill operation historically have required a relatively low level of fire and emergency medical services and support(Cruz, 1993). The City is currently planning to construct an additional fire station to meet the continuing growth of industrial development in the southern area of the City(City of Stockton, 1990a). This station would likely become the first-response station for the existing landfill. The new station would be located on Arch/Airport Road between Airport Way and Highway 99,approximately two miles west of the existing landfill site. The Stockton Fire Department is also planning to build a new training facility for fire and emergency medical training in the general vicinity of French Camp Road and Interstate 5 (City of Stockton, 1990a). III.C.2