Eric Strauss remembers what it was like before the Camp Verde and Montezuma-Rimrock fire districts signed a Joint Powers Agreement two years ago to serve as one entity, the Copper Canyon Fire and Medical Authority. With 20 years on the job, Strauss, remembers the days when Camp Verde “ran two or three calls a week.” Nowadays, the Camp Verde station is “currently running on average about 15 calls a day.” “Though the Rimrock station doesn’t run as many calls, they continue to get busier week by week,” says Strauss, battalion chief with the Copper Canyon Fire & Medical Authority, a partnership of the Camp Verde and Montezuma-Rimrock fire districts since 2016.