West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department Service Call Statistics 2008

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Contents:
1. Response Statistics: Service Calls by type of call
2. Service Calls inside District 5, by month
3. More Service Statistics
4. Service Area Statistics
5. See also: About West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department
6. See also: National Fire Statistics from USFA
7. See also: Statistics Archives

Response Statistics:

SERVICE CALLS: 2008

ROW#	TYPE OF CALL	FREQ.	FREQ. %	AVG# PERS: SUPPORT/ EMS/ OTHER	AVG# APPARATUS: SUPPORT/ EMS/ OTHER	AVG PERS HOURS	TOTAL PERS HOURS
1	Fire, other	7	3.00%	4.71 / 0 / 0	2.71 / 0 / 0	3.4	23.8
2	Building fires	12	5.15%	11.42 / 0.17 / 0.67	5.08 / 0.08 / 0.17	32.67	392.08
3	Cooking fire, confined to container	1	0.43%	4 / 0 / 0	4 / 0 / 0	1.13	1.13
4	Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other	1	0.43%	7 / 0 / 0	3 / 0 / 0	2.68	2.68
5	Passenger vehicle fire	3	1.29%	5.33 / 0 / 0	3 / 0 / 0	4.51	13.52
6	Natural vegetation fire, other	2	0.86%	4.5 / 0 / 0	3 / 0 / 0	3.75	7.5
7	Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire	4	1.72%	4 / 0 / 0	2.25 / 0 / 0	1.88	7.5
8	Grass fire	4	1.72%	6.25 / 0 / 0	3.25 / 0 / 0	4.44	17.75
9	Outside rubbish fire, other	2	0.86%	4 / 0 / 0	2 / 0 / 0	1.47	2.93
10	Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire	1	0.43%	2 / 0 / 0	1 / 0 / 0	0.6	0.6
11	Garbage dump or sanitary landfill fire	0	0.00%	0 / 0 / 0	0 / 0 / 0	0	0
12	Outside gas or vapor combustion explosion	1	0.43%	2 / 0 / 0	2 / 0 / 0	2.23	2.23
13	Rescue, emergency medical call (EMS) call, ot	53	22.75%	0 / 2.34 / 0	0 / 1.3 / 0	1.75	92.5
14	Medical assist, assist EMS crew	73	31.33%	0 / 1.88 / 0	0 / 1.11 / 0	1.27	92.98
15	Vehicle accident with injuries	1	0.43%	0 / 7 / 0	0 / 4 / 0	3.15	3.15
16	Motor vehicle accident with no injuries	1	0.43%	0 / 4 / 0	0 / 2 / 0	9.53	9.53
17	Extrication of victim(s) from vehicle	3	1.29%	0 / 2.67 / 0	0 / 1.67 / 0	2.91	8.73
18	Rescue or EMS standby	1	0.43%	0 / 1 / 0	0 / 1 / 0	0.13	0.13
19	Gasoline or other flammable liquid spill	2	0.86%	0 / 0 / 4	0 / 0 / 2	4.93	9.87
20	Gas leak (natural gas or LPG)	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 4	0 / 0 / 3	3.87	3.87
21	Oil or other combustible liquid spill	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 4	0 / 0 / 2	4.53	4.53
22	Power line down	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 2	0 / 0 / 2	2.03	2.03
23	Aircraft standby	2	0.86%	0 / 1 / 3	0 / 0.5 / 1.5	2.57	5.13
24	Vehicle accident, general cleanup	3	1.29%	0 / 0 / 2.33	0 / 0 / 1	1.36	4.08
25	Service Call, other	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 3	0 / 0 / 2	18	18
26	Smoke or odor removal	2	0.86%	0 / 0 / 4.5	0 / 0 / 2.5	1.6	3.2
27	Good intent call, other	4	1.72%	0 / 0 / 2.5	0 / 0 / 1.75	1.96	7.85
28	Dispatched & canceled en route	25	10.73%	0 / 0 / 2.24	0 / 0 / 1.44	0.68	17.03
29	Authorized controlled burning	6	2.58%	0 / 0 / 6.83	0 / 0 / 3.17	1.99	11.93
30	Smoke scare, odor of smoke	2	0.86%	0 / 0 / 8	0 / 0 / 3	4.12	8.23
31	EMS call, party transported by non-fire agenc	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 2	0 / 0 / 1	1.83	1.83
32	False alarm or false call, other	7	3.00%	0 / 0 / 4.14	0 / 0 / 2.29	1.72	12.02
33	Sprinkler activation due to malfunction	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 4	0 / 0 / 2	0.47	0.47
34	Smoke detector activation due to malfunction	3	1.29%	0 / 0 / 7.33	0 / 0 / 3.33	3.29	9.87
35	Citizen complaint	1	0.43%	0 / 0 / 2	0 / 0 / 1	0.3	0.3
36	Totals	233	100.00%	1.11 / 1.22 / 1	0.56 / 0.7 / 0.53	3.43	799.02
37	Mutual Aid Given Incidents	19	-	-	-	-	-

WRCVFD Service Calls in District 5
(Excludes Mutual Aid Calls Outside Our District):

SERVICE CALLS INSIDE DISTRICT 5 BY MONTH: 2007-2008

Month	Number of Our Responses inside District 5	Exposures	Aid Given
2007-Jan	17	0	2
2007-Feb	17	0	0
2007-Mar	29	0	1
2007-Apr	31	0	1
2007-May	22	0	0
2007-Jun	12	0	1
2007-Jul	21	0	2
2007-Aug	24	0	2
2007-Sep	19	0	1
2007-Oct	21	0	2
2007-Nov	20	0	1
2007-Dec	24	0	1
2007 Total	257	0	14
2008-Jan	20	0	1
2008-Feb	21	0	0
2008-Mar	25	0	3
2008-Apr	36	0	4
2008-May	10	0	2
2008-Jun	15	0	1
2007-2008 Fiscal Year Total	256	0	20
2008-Jul	31	0	1
2008-Aug	15	0	3
2008-Sep	10	0	1
2008-Oct	21	0	0
2008-Nov	14	0	2
2008-Dec	15	0	1
2008 Total	233	0	19

More Service Statistics:

At the request of the Department of Homeland Security in its Emergency Management and Response - Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) INFOGRAM 2-08 of January 17, 2008, response capabilities of emergency services organizations such as West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department, including rosters and equipment lists, should no longer be included on public web sites. To this end, portions of these statistics have been removed. Thank you for understanding.

• Our members are kept very busy:
  
  • WRCVFD responds to approx 250 to 300 fire and medical calls per year.
  • Each department member trains several hours each month.
  • Many hours are also spent on administrative and maintenance duties.
  • Most of the repairs to the equipment and vehicles are done by the department members.
  • All members serve as volunteers and no one receives pay for their services.
  • WRCVFD achieved an ISO Rating of Class 6/9 effective July 1, 2004.

Service Area Statistics:

• Our service area is diverse:
  
  • 5th District of Roane County
  • 53.3 square miles
  • 4373 residents
  • 8 miles of I-40 interstate highway
  • 10 miles of railroad
  • 85 hydrants
  • 69% forest, 21% grassland, 10% roads and other areas

• See also: Statistics Archives

  • Statistics 2009
  • Statistics 2008
  • Statistics 2007
  • Statistics for 2007 Tennessee service calls in PDF format (2.8Mb) - Get Adobe Reader.
  • Statistics for 2008-01 Tennessee service calls in PDF format (1.6Mb) - Get Adobe Reader.
  • Statistics for 2008 Roane County service calls through July in PDF format (53kb) - Get Adobe Reader.