White Sands Test Facility Emergency Services

== Area Served ==
The White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a a remote, self-contained US government rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems. WSTF occupies 28 square miles of the southwest corner of the White Sands Missile Range, and is located in the western foothills of the Organ Mountains, eleven miles east of Las Cruces, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Its primary mission is to support NASA's Space Station program, and previously the Space Shuttle program. White Sands Test Facility offers numerous ambient pressure and altitude simulation stands to test rocket propulsion test systems as well as single rocket engines and its services are available to NASA, the United States Department of Defense, other federal agencies, as well as universities and commercial industry programs. The White Sands Test Facility is managed by the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center located in the Clear Lake Area of the city of Houston, Texas which acquired the official nickname "Space City" in 1967, and of which WSTF is a division. 
== Department Profile ==
Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF), structure firefighting, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazmat services, fire prevention and inspection for the White Sands Test Facility is provided by the NASA JSC White Sands Test Facility Emergency Services, comprised of 24 civilian firefighters.  
== History ==
NASA established the White Sands Test Facility on the edge of the White Sands Missile Range in 1963 and it has supported every US human space flight from Apollo to the Shuttle Program. It is currently preparing to support propulsion systems and materials and components testing for the Constellation Program. During the orbiter's life, WSTF also managed and operated the Shuttle Fleet Leader program which consisted of testing orbital maneuvering and reaction control (thruster) subsystems.
===Fire Stations ===
Station 	Address 	In Service 	Notes
4Historic American Engineer Record No. NM-28-FNational Park Service, US Department of the Interior Sep. 2013Accessed Dec. 21, 2021. Position: 32.9383584053387, -106.41005235804903	White Sands Space Harbor - Space Shuttle Landing Facility Area 1 (NASA Inventory #51)Northwest corner of HUB maintenance facility	1985 - 2011	Closed following retirement of the Space Shuttle program on August 31, 2011Fire Station 4 had been manned and operated by USAF fire crews from nearby Holloman AFB
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station - 12600 NASA Road===
:Truck 1 - 2006 Pierce Arrow XT quint (?/?/75' rear-mount ladder) (SN#17668)
:Engine - E-One pumper
:RIV - Ford F-550 4x4 mini-pumper
==References==
==Station Map==
Category:Doña Ana County
Category:Federal departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Federal Fire Departments (New Mexico)
Category:NASA Fire Departments