Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Fire and Emergency Services

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==Area Served==
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort or MCAS Beaufort, nicknamed "Fightertown East," is a United States Marine Corps installation located 3.1 miles northwest of the central business district of the city of Beaufort, in Beaufort County, South Carolina. The city and air station is named after the 2nd Duke of Beaufort, Henry Somerset, an English peer and politician. On September 19, 1975, the airfield on the installation was named Merritt Field in honor of Major General Lewie Griffith "Griff" Merritt (June 26, 1897 – March 24, 1974), a native of Ridge Spring, South Carolina, and a Marine Aviation pioneer who served in both World Wars and commanded several major flying units in the South Pacific during World War II. MCAS Beaufort is home to Marine Aircraft Group 31, a subordinate unit of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, the major east coast aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps. The 2nd MAW is headquartered aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, and it provides the aviation element of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force. About 4,700 personnel serve at MCAS Beaufort consisting of nearly 4,000 active-duty servicemembers and more than 700 civilian workers. The air station encompasses 6,900 acres and is associated with a large air-to-air combat area off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, as well as the 5,200 acre Townsend air-to-ground combat and bombing range in Long and McIntosh Counties in southeast, coastal Georgia, some 82 miles southwest of MCAS Beaufort. Also attached to MCAS Beaufort is the housing complex of Laurel Bay, located 3 miles from the station, that provides family housing for area servicemembers.
==Department Profile==
The MCAS Beaufort Fire and Emergency Services Department provides structural fire suppression, advanced life support (ALS), emergency medical services (EMS), technical rescue, hazmat services, fire prevention and inspection to the MCAS Beaufort community. The department is comprised of civilian career firefighters. Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is provided by USMC enlisted personnel assigned to the MCAS Beaufort Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Division. Beaufort FES has automatic aid agreements with, among others, the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department, the Burton Fire District, the Burton Hill Fire Department, the MCRD Parris Island Fire Department, the Lady's Island/St. Helena Fire District, the Sheldon Fire District, the Bluffton Township Fire Department, Hilton Head Fire Rescue, Jasper County Fire Rescue and Colleton County Fire Rescue.
==History==
Naval Air Station Beaufort was commissioned on June 15, 1943 for advanced training operations of anti-submarine patrols during World War II. It was deactivated in 1946 and reactivated in 1956. On March 1, 1960, it was re-designated Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station 61 - 2085 Drayton Street===
Built 1959
:Engine 61 (MC302537) - 2015 Pierce Saber pumper (SN#28382-01) (Ex-Engine 88)
:Ladder 61 (MC293994) - 2009 Pierce Velocity aerial (1750/450/75' rear-mount) (SN#21479) (Ex-Ladder 1, ex-Ladder 88) 
:Rescue 61 (MC293993) - 2009 Pierce Arrow XT 28' walk-around (SN#21526) (Ex-Rescue 1, ex-Rescue 88)
:Medic 61 (G310072L) - Ford F-450 (Ex-Medic 88)
:Battalion 61 (G621659V) - Ford F-250 4x4 (Ex-Battalion 88)
===Fire Station 62 - Laurel Bay Station ===
:Engine 62 - 2000 Pierce Saber (Ex-Engine 89) (SN#11273)
:Medic 62 - Ford F-450 (Ex-Medic 89)
===Aircraft Rescue & Firefighting Station - 1313 Mayberry Street ===
:Rescue 15 - Oshkosh P-19A 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 15)
:Rescue 16 - Oshkosh P-19A 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 16)
:Rescue 17 (MC276012) - Oshkosh P-19A 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 17)
:Tanker 19 (MC302116) - 2014 Kenworth T800 / Pierce elliptical (SN#27436) (Ex-Crash 19)
:Rescue 27 (MC678647) - Oshkosh P-19R 6x6 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. Halotron) (Ex-Crash 27)
=== Townsend Bombing Range, McIntosh County, Georgia ===
:Brush 1 - 2020 Ford F-550 4x4 / Pierce Type 6 wildland (SN#34071-01)
:Brush 2 - 2020 Ford F-550 4x4 / Pierce Type 6 wildland (SN#34071-02)
==Retired Apparatus==
:1994 Pierce Arrow pumper (SN#E8452)
:1989 Pierce Dash 4x4 walk-in (Ex-Rescue 1)
:1987 Pierce Arrow pumper / Pierce rehab (1000/500/100F/50' Tele-Squrt) (Ex-Engine 2) 
:1985 Oshkosh P-19A 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (SN#528907)
:1985 Oshkosh P-19A 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (SN#519082)
:1978 Seagrave MB pumper (1000/500) (Ex-Engine 3)
==External Links==
*Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Fire and Emergency Services Facebook page
== Station Map ==
Beaufort
Category:Beaufort County, South Carolina
Category:Military Fire Departments (South Carolina)
Category:Military departments operating Oshkosh apparatus (United States)
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Former operators of Seagrave apparatus