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Clayton County Fire & Emergency now offering the cutting-edge One Test
Services upon turning 18 years old cancer kits to department personnel.
and graduating from high school. Since While CCFES makes time to build
the inception of the program, a total of community, its 400-plus emergency
49 students have enrolled and are on personnel are always on the move. The
track to graduate with a job offer. department responds to more than
Community outreach is another 54,000 calls annually across Clayton
component of the CCFES mission. The County’s diverse landscape. Clayton’s
department regularly hosts station tours, mixed-use community includes expansive
equipment demonstrations, career days, woodland and recreation areas, large
fire and life safety education classes, single-family homes and multi-family
and health fairs to keep the community residential complexes, hotels, and a
engaged with the department and aware regional hospital, not to mention the
of its numerous services. three major interstate highways (I-75,
I-675, I-285) that pass through the county.
CCFES is poised to lead the way
into the next decade as it continues
its commitment to providing the
Clayton County community with a safe Chief Landry Merkison
place to live, work, and play through
cutting-edge emergency response and
Recently, CCFES began deploying education delivered with compassion
its Mobile Health Clinic with full-time and professionalism.
medical services to employees and is The Heartbeat of the Community
staff and a physician to provide basic

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