About
The City of Brandon is a residential community located 11 miles from the state capital and within five miles of the Jackson-Evers International Airport. Our community consists of more than 6700 single-family residences and several multi-family complexes that account for over 1600 apartment spaces. Over the past three years, the city has issued an average of 350 new single-family structure building permits annually. Today, there are 18 new single-family residential subdivisions under development that will soon account for 1200 additional homes. Other examples of this residential growth include several new senior citizen/assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Recently, the Department of Transportation completed a new state highway bypass and created a major traffic corridor through the district covered by the city. This new roadway has opened a mostly rural area of our community to new commercial developments including a major home improvement center, several retail shopping outlets, and schools. Other areas along this corridor have been re-zoned for commercial use with several new construction projects already underway. The City of Brandon also provides protection for 16 miles of interstate highway. Recent traffic studies indicate that this section of interstate has exceeded its capacity and construction for a six-lane expansion project has already begun. Brandon is also located along a major east-west rail corridor with an average of 23 daily freight trains crossings. Within the next year, the level of rail activity is project to increase to at least 40 daily freight train crossing. A substantial portion of each infrastructure and transportation component is protected by the City fo Brandon Fire Department.
The Brandon Fire Department protects a county-assigned automatic aid district of 10 square miles. In addition, the department provides mutual aid to five volunteer departments and two neighboring municipal departments. The station #2 apparatus is the first-due and responsible for all county automatic aid calls for service. In 2008, Brandon responded to over 90 calls for automatic or mutual aid. The vast majority of these calls were handled by apparatus and personnel assigned to station #2. Of the five primary response routes leading away from station #2, three lead directly to out-of-district mutual aid districts.
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