It’s been a busy year so far for the Dauphin Fire Department.
They responded to 163 incidents this year. That’s an increase of 16 compared to last year’s 147 at this time.
132 calls came from the city, and 29 were rural responses. Rural consisted of only 18 percent of calls but took 39 percent of the response time.
So far this year emergency response crews put in over 3,313.5 hours in the 132 city responses. They put in just over 2,122.5 in 29 rural responses. They also up in over 1,870.0 hours of training.
The department’s busiest year to date before 2018 was in 2011.
In May they predicted they’d break the record for the busiest year after responding to 39 incidents in that month alone.
In the Emergency Response review for the third quarter Fire Chief Cameron Abrey says no one wants to break the record for most calls. Since May the number of calls slowed down, and the department is 20 calls down from the same time frame in 2011.
