First Coast Navy Fire & Emergency Services

== Area Served ==
Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jacksonville), often referred to colloquially as "NAS Jax", is a large multi-mission naval air station located approximately eight miles south of the central business district of Jacksonville, along the west bank of the St. John's River, in Duval County, northeast Florida. The air station is part of the overall Jacksonville Naval Complex, a collection of Navy Bases in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area that include Naval Station Mayport, Naval Outlying Landing Field Whitehouse, the Pinecastle Range Complex and the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field (now a civilian, public-use, joint civil-military airfield and industrial park known as Cecil Commerce Center and Cecil Airport),. NAS Jax is home to Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 11, as well as Commander, Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Detachment Jacksonville. 
=== Mutual Aid ===
First Coast provides mutual aid response to Naval Station Mayport Fire and Emergency Services, the Jacksonville Fire & Rescue Department (Florida), Clay County Fire Rescue, Orange Park Fire Department, and other local agencies. 
== Department Profile ==
Aircraft rescue and firefighting, structural firefighting, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazmat services, fire prevention and inspection for NAS Jacksonville, the Navy's Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range, Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Whitehouse and the Yellow Water Naval Housing Area is provided by Navy Region Southeast / First Coast Navy Fire and Emergency Services, comprised of Department of the Navy civilian firefighters. Since 2008, NAS Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport operated as one fire department under the umbrella of First Coast Navy Fire and Emergency Services. Effective October 1, 2020 however, both departments went back to operating independently; NAS Jacksonville as First Coast Navy Fire and Emergency Services. and NS Mayport as NS Mayport Fire and Emergency Services. 
==History==
During World War I, the area now occupied by NAS Jacksonville was named Camp Joseph E. Johnston, and was commissioned on October 15, 1917. The United States Army trained quartermasters and the center included more than 600 buildings. The Florida National Guard began using the site in 1928 and renamed it Camp J. Clifford R. Foster. On October 15, 1940, Naval Air Station Jacksonville was officially commissioned, and became the first part of the Jacksonville Navy complex. Increased training and construction characterized NAS Jacksonville's response to America's entry into World War II. Three runways over 6,000 feet long were operating, as were seaplane runways in the St. Johns River and seaplane ramps leading from the water. By April 1949, NAS Jacksonville was the East Coast's naval aircraft capital, with more aircraft stationed here than at any other east coast naval base from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean. In 1973, with the assignment of Helicopter Antisubmarine Wing One, the station's primary mission became antisubmarine warfare, a mission it continues today. The Pinecastle Electronic Warfare and Bombing Range, acquired on June 27, 1941 and located in the Ocala National Forest north of the city of Orlando, Florida is an isolated, 5,700-acre practice range used for live impact training by naval fast jet aircraft. Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Whitehouse is a military use airport owned by the US Navy since the 1940s, and located in the Jacksonville neighborhood of Whitehouse under the operational control of Naval Air Station Jacksonville. NALF Whitehouse primarily supports day and night Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) operations by US Navy and US Marine Corps carrier borne aircraft. Lastly, the Yellow Water Naval Housing Area is a government family housing area for USN personnel stationed at NAS Jacksonville located 30 minutes west of the base.
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
====Fire Station 1 (Structural) - Building 105, Yorktown Avenue "The Yorktown Express"====
:Chief 103 - 
:Tower Ladder 131 (N74-00147) - 2019 Pierce Arrow XT (2000/300/100' rear-mount platform) (SN#32810-1)
:Squad 161 - 2011 Pierce Velocity walk-around hazmat/rescue with command cab (SN#23801)
:Rescue 171 - 2020 Ford F-450 / Wheeled Coach ambulance
====Fire Station 2 (ARFF) - Midfield "Position 1"====
:Brush 107 - 2012 Ford F-550 / Pierce (SN#25188)
:ARFF 108 -
:Engine 122 - 2012 Pierce Saber (1250/750/25F)
:ARFF 141 (N71-03369) - Oshkosh Striker 3000 6x6 crash tender (2000/3000/300B/150PKP)
:ARFF 142 - 2021 Oshkosh Striker 3000 6x6 crash tender (2000/3000/300B/150PKP)
:ARFF 147 - Oshkosh Striker 1500 4x4 crash tender (2000/1500/210F/500 lbs. PK)
:ARFF 143 (Reserve) - Oshkosh T-1500 4x4 crash tender (1750/1500/210F/500 lbs. DC)
:ARFF 145 (Reserve) (N71-03215) - Oshkosh TI-1500 4x4 crash tender (1750/1500/210F/500 lbs. DC)
:ARFF 146 (Reserve) -
====Fire Station 3 - Mustin Road "The 3 House"==== 
:Engine 121 - Pierce
:Rescue 172 - Ford F-450 / Wheeled Coach ambulance
==Retired Apparatus==
:2005 Pierce Dash 2000 aerial (2000/150/25A/25B/105' rear-mount) (SN#16440)
:1995 KME Renegade P-22 pumper (1250/750/50A/50B) (SN#G2453) (Sold to Clay County Fire Rescue)
: 1992 Amertek 4000L 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F) (Sold to Sellersburg Fire Department)
:(N71-02728) - Oshkosh P-19 4x4 crash tender (950/1000/130F)
==External Links==
Firefighters of First Coast Navy Fire & Emergency Services Facebook page
==Station Map==
Category:Duval County, Florida
Category:Navy Region Southeast
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Military departments operating KME apparatus
Category:Military departments operating Oshkosh apparatus (United States)
Category:Former operators of Amertek apparatus
Category:Military Fire Departments (Florida)