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Wichita firefighter Ty Voth, a 5-year veteran of the Wichita Fire Department, responded with a crew on Engine 19 to “a heavy fire at a modular home down in Haysville” on Thursday afternoon ...
Two days later, on December 17, the North Wichita Fire was fully contained, with a burned area of 7,572 acres (3,064 ha). The wildfire destroyed five structures and cost approximately $46,000 (2021 USD). Another but smaller wildfire, the Wichita County Fire, was contained a day later on December 18 with a burned area of 782 acres (316 ha).
The Wichita Police Department, established in 1871, is the city's law enforcement agency. [187] With over 800 employees, including more than 600 commissioned officers, it is the largest law enforcement agency in Kansas. [188] The Wichita Fire Department, organized in 1886, operates 22 stations throughout the city.
The Wichita firefighters’ union has filed an ethics complaint against Wichita Mayor Lily Wu, alleging she directed the fire chief to lay off 45 firefighters in a private meeting.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents.
A Wichita firefighter searches through the window of an apartment complex where a fire killed a woman and injured three other people on Oct. 13. (Courtesy photo/Wichita Fire Department)
Update: The fire victim died in the hospital on Sunday, Jan. 21. Between screams, the woman told the Sedgwick County 911 call-taker at least three times that she was on fire. In her panic, the 91 ...
Sedgwick County is part of the Wichita, KS Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the census of 2000, there were 452,869 people, 176,444 households, and 117,688 families residing in the county. The population density was 453 inhabitants per square mile (175/km 2). There were 191,133 housing units at an average density of 191 per square mile (74 ...