The Garden City Fire Protection District and Ambulance Service is a combination fire protection district serving an area of approximately 3,800 residents in a ninety (90) square mile area on the northwest edge of Missouri, in Cass County. We are located approximately forty miles southeast of Kansas City, Missouri. Our primary service area is rural. We provide ambulance and fire services to this area. We service this area on an average budget of $186,000 dollars annually. Over the past five years, our area has grown expeditiously, with people moving from all over the country to take advantage of the rural life and the easy access to the Ozarks hills and lakes. Our service area is a main thoroughfare for copious amounts of traffic that is headed to the Lake of the Ozarks. Our service is made up of volunteers and paid staffing. We have over twenty-five volunteers and ten paid employees. Our service responds to approximately 500 calls annually.
