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Surf City, NC 28445








 

 

 

 

Response statistics -

 

Year beginning January 1 2006, and ending December 31 2006

 

The Surf City Volunteer Fire Department responds to many calls for assistance all during the different times of the year, all hours of the day and night. These calls of assistance come from private citizens, other area fire departments, Emergency Medical Services agencies, and law enforcement officers. The nature of these calls varies, and each response is unique, as no incident is the same as any before it.

 

Below is a breakdown of the calls we responded to for the year 2006. Our Incident Reporting year begins January 1 and ends December 31 of each year. Each incident we respond to, no matter the nature, is logged and entered into a nationwide incident reporting system. This system is known as NFIRS (Nation Fire Incident Reporting System). It assists the government in maintaining statistical databases for various reports and to help design safety and fire prevention programs and materials for the general public.

 

The following are generally the different types of incidents that we respond to and the corresponding number of incidents for the year:

 

 

2006 Calls

Structure Fires (houses, buildings, barns, trailers etc) - 

 3

Vehicle Fires (automobiles, trucks, heavy equipment etc) - 

 10

Traffic/Vehicle Collisions (traffic crashes, pedestrians etc) - 

 30

Brush Fires (grass, tress, field and forest fires) - 

 14

Water Rescue (distressed swimmers, distressed boats, etc) - 

 0

Miscellaneous/Mutual-aid (Provide manpower or apparatus to other departments for fires etc, EMS Assist, Service calls, and various other types of call not listed in the table above) - 

 120
   
Yearly Total: 177

Response Statistics

(The below statistics are not scientific and cannot be guaranteed to be completely accurate)

 

Average "Response Time":  6.5 minutes

(Time from dispatch to first arrive)

 

Average "Reaction Time":     3.4 minutes

(Time from dispatch to first enroute)

 

Average "On Scene Time":   42.6 minutes

(Time from first on scene to last unit cleared)

 

Average "Total Time Out":   1.12 hours

(Time from dispatch to last unit cleared)

 

Average Number of Personnel Responding: 20

 

Total man hours utilized:     Under Calculation

(Number of personnel per call, multiplied by "Total Time Out", 

multiplied by the number of calls dispatched)

 

Increase in call volume from previous year: 19.75 %

Increase in call volume from second previous year (2004):  24.00 %

(2005, 148 total dispatches 2004, 143 total dispatches)

 

 

 

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