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CHAPTER 3: EXISTING CONDITIONS IN THE STUDY AREA <br />3.1.2 Emergency Response <br />Services <br />A number of emergency response agencies <br />operate in the study area, including ambulance, <br />fire, and police services. Depending on where <br />these services are located and where they are <br />dispatched, many use 1-90 within the study <br />area and therefore experience current traffic <br />conditions and are impacted by congestion, <br />potentially delaying response times. These <br />services are summarized in the following <br />sections. <br />Medical <br />Kittitas County Public Hospital District #2 <br />Kittitas County Public Hospital District #2 <br />provides ambulance services through Upper <br />Kittitas County Medic One and is the only <br />licensed, advanced life support service in <br />Upper Kittitas County. The hospital district also <br />supports a small amount of the care provided <br />at Kittitas Valley Hospital (KVH) Urgent Care — <br />Cle Elum and the Open Door Medical Clinic. The <br />district serves Kittitas County from the King/ <br />Kittitas County border at Snoqualmie Pass to <br />the Elk Heights area (about 7 miles southeast <br />of Cie Elum)? <br />Fire <br />Fire District 3 — Easton <br />Kittitas County Fire District 3 provides fire <br />protection and emergency response services <br />to the residents of Easton and the surrounding <br />areas. <br />1 https://www.ukcrnedicone.org/ <br />2 htt s:/1� kc�fdZor-',I <br />3 https://www.cleelumfire.com/ <br />Fire District 6 — Ronald <br />The Kittitas County Fire District 6 service area <br />covers 17.2 square miles, serving all of Ronald, <br />Lake Cie Elum, Salmon La Sac north to Hex <br />Mountain, and parts of Suncadia. The district <br />operates three stations and shares automatic <br />mutual aid with Cie Elum Fire Department, <br />Roslyn Fire Department, and Hospital District <br />2. It also provides mutual aid to Districts 1, 3, <br />and 7 as requested. <br />Fire District 7 — Cie Elum <br />Kittitas County Fire District 7 is the largest <br />fire district in the Upper Kittitas County <br />area, covering 126 square miles around the <br />communities of Cie Elum, South Cle Elum, <br />Roslyn, and Ronald. The district provides <br />services from eight stations with 16 full-time <br />firefighters and 52 volunteer firefighters, <br />averaging over 800 calls annually. The district <br />is the primary backup transporting agency for <br />Kittitas County Public Hospital District42. <br />In addition to 19 miles of 1-90, Kittitas County <br />Fire District 7 covers approximately 20 miles <br />along SR 970, extending to SR 97 up to the <br />top of Blewett Pass. This accounts for many <br />collisions, extrications, and accident responses <br />during the busy summer weekends and snow- <br />covered winter months.2 <br />City of Cie Elum Fire Department <br />The Cie Elum Volunteer Fire Department has <br />two stations and 42 volunteers. The department <br />is responsible for approximately five square <br />miles of area in Kittitas County and receives a <br />current call volume of over 500 calls a year .3 <br />VOLUME I: FEASIBILITY REPORT 1-90 Corridor Easton to Cie Elum Feasibility Study 1 32 <br />