The City of Mount Pleasant and Titus County had a fire protection agreement for the last 22 years or so. The county pays the city, from the last agreement, 27% of the city fire budget to provide fire fighters and apparatus to respond to incidents in the county. This could be a structure fire, grass fire, wreck, plane crash, boating accident, drowning, etc. The previous agreement should have expired in 2020, but due to COVID it was extended two years.
On September 30, 2022 the agreement ended without the city and county being able to agree on a new deal. Back in 2016, I believe it was the city and county split the cost to have an independent party do an analysis of the Fire Service in Titus County. With volunteer numbers dwindling and even the ones we have, me included, not being available most of the time during the day, the study showed the city and county are growing and need more fire fighters.
The city proposed a five year agreement with the percentage paid by the county moving to 32% in year one, and increasing 2% each year with the final amount being 40% in year five. With this the city would add three fire fighters a year to bring the total to 45 firefighters and 15 per shift. That would allow the city to double the amount of firefighters they send to county calls.