DeKalb County Fire Department Incident Responses Up in 2009

The DeKalb County Fire Department has compiled its 2009 Incident Response Summary.
DeKalb County Fire Chief Donny Green says overall, 2009 fire incident responses in the county were up by 64 calls from 2008. In 2008, the department responded to a total of 410 fire incidents. The department responded to 474 fire incident responses in 2009. This count does not include the 391 rural medical first responder calls that county fire department personnel answered.
Green says with DeKalb County’s rural population growing at rates higher than the cities’ population growth in DeKalb County, the department continues to experience annual increases in its rural call volume. Even though 2009 was an extremely wet year, the department responded to the same number of grass fires as it did in 2008.
The following is a breakdown of each type of fire incident response call that the department answered in 2009:
Incident Type:
Structure-76 (2008) 64 (2009)
Wildland/Grass/Debris-73 (2008) 73 (2009)
Auto Wrecks- 126 (2008) 151 (2009)
Vehicle Fires- 25 (2008) 36 (2009)
Landing Zones- 18 (2008) 20 (2009)
Extrication/Entrapment- 31(2008) 25 (2009)
Hazmat- 0 (2008) 0 (2009)
Alarms- 54 (2008) 64 (2009)
Misc.- 7 (2008) 41 (2009)
TOTAL- 410 (2008) 474 (2009)