Hunt County approves updated volunteer fire-district map to shorten response times
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County commissioners approved a revised volunteer fire-district map after a committee review that reallocated several precinct boundaries to reduce response times and better integrate with CAD dispatching. Chiefs and committee members said the changes were based on property-line mapping and repeated time checks.
Hunt County commissioners approved an updated volunteer fire-district map on Feb. 10, 2026, after a presentation from a five-person committee and fire leadership that said modest boundary shifts would improve emergency response times in several areas of the county.
Chief Biggers introduced the committee’s work and noted that the review considered Interstate 30 service roads, new station locations and emerging Emergency Services District (ESD) proposals. Committee chair Jeff Morgan said the group’s primary goal was “to make sure that the citizens of this county were gonna get the response needed from the fire departments as quickly as possible.”
The committee described its process as using property-line–based mapping supplemented by multiple response-time checks with Google Maps at morning, midday and evening peak periods. Presenters said most districts saw only small changes but that a number of southern and lake-area territories were reassigned because alternate stations could reach some addresses substantially faster than the prior map allowed. Jeff Morgan and Chief Biggers told the court that the county’s volunteer fire chiefs had been notified and the Fire Association had unanimously adopted the proposed map.
Speakers emphasized that the new map was designed to integrate with Hunt County computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems: once shapes are uploaded to county 911, AMR and the sheriff’s office, dispatch will automatically populate the responding department for a given address. Presenters also said mutual-aid agreements would remain in place to handle flooding or other situations that temporarily block primary responders.
Commissioners asked about the committee’s methodology for measuring time differences, flood-prone locations and the effect of one-way service roads; presenters answered that they compared representative addresses and focused changes where time savings exceeded roughly 60 seconds, while retaining mutual-aid coverage for exceptional situations.
The court voted to adopt the map and asked staff to provide the finalized shape files to Hunt County 911, the regional council of governments and first-responder partners for CAD integration and public posting. The court also directed staff to require a professional survey and legal descriptions before any subsequent ESD petitions are finalized so that legal boundaries match the CAD layers.
The map approval is administrative; the court did not change tax or funding structures in this action. Public posting and CAD upload are the next procedural steps.