Fire Risk Level
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Department Stats
Written by Administrator
Thursday, 11 December 2008 22:05
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* The Murphy Volunteer Fire Department protects a district consisting of 21.978 square miles and a population of approximately 6300.
* The Murphy Volunteer Fire Department provides automatic aid to six adjoining volunteer departments and mutual aid upon request to the 7 remaining volunteer departments in Cherokee County.
2012 STATISTICS:
243 Total Calls (22% decrease over 2011)
107 calendar days with 1 incident 43 calendar days with 2 incidents 15 calendar days with 3 incidents 0 calendar days with 4 incidents 1 calendar days with 5 incidents 0 calendar days with 6 incidents
Estimated exposed value of property on incidents $ 1,030,785 Estimated Property Loss $ 312,820 ($93,300 city, $219,520 rural) Estimated Property Saved $ 717,965 (69.65% exposed property saved)
Types of calls responded to: 28 Structure Fires (36% decrease) 13 Vehicle Fires (23% increase) 40 Brush / Grass Fires (36% decrease) 95 Other (investigations, gas leaks, automobile accidents, dumpster fires, etc.) (13% decrease) 67 False Calls (alarm activations) (21% decrease) 58 Received Automatic Aid (23% decrease) 83 Provided Automatic Aid (43% decrease) 0 Received Mutual Aid (100% decrease) 6 Provided Mutual Aid (17% increase) ______________________________________________________________________________ 744.47 Personnel hours provided on calls (32% decrease
4020.50 Personnel hours dedicated to training (31% increase) Response time within district (time from FD paged until arrival of apparatus on scene) 7:32 (2010 – 7:24) 6:52 City (2010 – 6:59) 9:01 Rural (2010 – 8:43) (2011 – 6:21) (2011 – 5:38) (2011 – 7:47) |
| Last Updated ( Friday, 08 February 2013 16:16 ) |