Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Fire Department

==Area Served==
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), formerly Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (1964-1974), and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (1974-1994) and (2000-2020). is a United States Space Force's Space installation located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. The cape is a seaward extension of Canaveral Island, a barrier island running southeastward along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, positioned south-southeast of adjacent Merritt Island (on which NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located), and separated from it by the Banana River with the two linked by bridges and causeways. Both CCSFS and KSC are part of a region known as Florida's Space Coast. On December 9, 2020 Cape Canaveral AFS was renamed Cape Canaveral Space Force Station by Vice President Mike Spence. Headquartered at the nearby Patrick Space Force Base, CCSFS is the primary launch site for the Space Force's Eastern Range with three launch pads currently active; Space Launch Complexes 37B, 40, and 41. The Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Skid Strip provides a 10,000-foot runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape.
=== Mutual Aid ===
CCSFS Fire and Emergency Services provides mutual aid to Brevard County Fire Rescue, NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Fire Department, and Canaveral Fire Rescue.
==Department Profile==
Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF), structure firefighting, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazardous materials response, fire prevention / inspection as well as launch / landing suppression and rescue team coverage for all manned and unmanned missions at Cape Canaveral Space Station is provided by CCSFS Fire and Emergency Services, comprised of nearly 80 civilian firefighters under contract by Chenega Global Protection LLC of Chantilly, Virginia. CCSFS and KSC fire protection is divided into two districts. District One encompasses the Cape Canaveral Space Station with three fire stations providing protection for all processing and launching of expendable launch vehicles. District Two encompasses the Kennedy Space Center with three fire stations, providing protection for the processing, launching and landing of the former space shuttle vehicle (since retired). 
==History==
The CCSFS area had been used by the United States government to test missiles since 1949, when President Harry S. Truman established the Joint Long Range Proving Ground at Cape Canaveral. On November 29, 1963, following the death of President John F. Kennedy, his successor Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11129 renaming both NASA's Merrit Island Launch Operations Center and "the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range" (a reference to the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex) as the "John F. Kennedy Space Center". President Johnson also convinced then Florida Governor C. Farris Bryant to change the name of Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. A number of American space exploration pioneers were launched from Cape Canaveral, including the first US Earth satellite in 1958, the first U.S. astronaut (1961), the first US astronaut in orbit (1962), the first two-man US spacecraft (1965), the first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and the first three-man US spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for all of the first spacecraft to (separately) fly past each of the planets in the Solar System (1962–1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011), and the first spacecraft to leave the Solar System (1977). Portions of the base have been designated a National Historic Landmark for their association with the early years of the American space program
===Fire Stations===
Station	Address 	In Service 	Notes
3 	Samuel C. Philips Parkway	?-Oct. 1, 2022	Closed
==Apparatus Roster==
===Fire Station 1 - Mercury Gemini Road at West Skid Strip Road===
:Engine 1 -
:Tower 1 -
:Rescue 1 -
:Car 1 -
:Battalion 1 -
:Rescue 12 -
:Rescue 42 -
===Fire Station 2===
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Fire Department
=== Fire Station 4===
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Fire Department
===Fire Station 5 - 680 Magellan Road===
 
:Engine 5 -
:Car 5 -
===Fire Station 6===
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Fire Department
===Station/Assignment Unknown===
: Red 90 -
:2021 Pierce Enforcer 7024 walk-around rescue (SN#34582)
:2012 Pierce Contender P-22 pumper (1500/500/2x25F) (SN#24849-04)
:2012 Pierce Contender P-22 pumper (1500/500/2x25F) (SN#24582)
:2011 Ford F-550 4x4 / Pierce P-34 RIV (90uhp/400/15A/56B) (SN#23850-17)
:2005 Freightliner M2 106 / Pierce pumper (1250/1000) (SN#15068) (US Navy purchase)
==Retired Apparatus==
:1991 Pierce Lance pumper (1500/750) (SN#E6415) (Ex-Engine 53)
:1987 Oshkosh P-19 crash tender (1000/1500/130F/500 lbs. PK) (Transferred to Joint Base Cape Cod Fire Department)
==Station Map==
Category:Brevard County
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Former military operators of Oshkosh apparatus
Category:US Space Force Fire Departments
Category:Military Fire Departments (Florida)