How many fires?

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Permalink Reply by Joe Heim on June 12, 2008 at 2:44pm

We respond to 5 to 7 at year counting mutual aid.

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Permalink Reply by Barry Aptt on June 12, 2008 at 4:49pm

Not that many because like grapes they come in bunches. Sometimes 6 - 10 a year to sometimes not one. I went a whole year once without responding to a true fire.

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Permalink Reply by David Klotz on June 13, 2008 at 1:34pm

Depends on the year the past couple of years it was between 5 to 7?

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Buechel on June 14, 2008 at 7:38am

In our first due we get around 10-15 a year. Mutual aid bumps up the number to around 20+. Although many of our mutual aid workers are farm related, (barn, machinery shed, etc.), so most of these are defensive on arrival. But, so far this year we haven't lost a building in our first due. So far so good.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Belanger on June 15, 2008 at 9:47pm

I just looked back in the run book a couple of months ago and I counted 47 just for the turn that I work and only from my station. It’s been getting slow for us lately. Now on the south end of the city, they probably got about 100 per turn give or take a few. That’s working house fires.

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Permalink Reply by Chip Atzbach on June 16, 2008 at 7:53pm

My Dept usually goes to approx 25 working fires a year many other smaller

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Permalink Reply by Ken Hanks on June 16, 2008 at 8:33pm

My FD had 17 working fires last year, about average. We have had 16 since January 1. I respond to almost all of them, maybe missing 2 or 3 a year.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Weil on June 18, 2008 at 6:17am

we are in the same boat as most of you- 5-12 "good working jobs" a year. How many medicals and crashes do you respond to?? ours are 80% of the call volume, the rest is smells, bells, service calls, etc....

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Permalink Reply by Billy Gillam on June 18, 2008 at 11:58am

On the average about 10 to 15. These include mutual aid calls.

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Permalink Reply by Will Anderson on July 26, 2008 at 8:22pm

we do about 100 MVA's per year and about 5300 EMS calls.

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Permalink Reply by Erron Kinney on July 27, 2008 at 2:48pm

On my paid department we do about 8 to 10 structural fires a year on my volunteer department we do between 20 and 30 in a years time. I personally have responded to 12 structure fires in the last year.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Glover on August 3, 2008 at 9:04pm

I've been to 2 fires in the 10 months I've been with my paid department. Both of them could have been "can jobs". We don't respond to very many and we certainly "DO NOT DO ENOUGH TRAINING".

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