The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District announced that its December response time hit an average of 8:10 minutes after responding to 602 service calls.
In 2015, the District ran a total of 6,918 calls with an average response time of 7:54 minutes. The District, which was reduced to three engines from five, saw an increase in 33-seconds from 2014 where they averaged 7:21 minutes.
According to the District, in the month of November, Engine 93 (Oakley) ran 41% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 314 times. Engine 52 (Brentwood) ran 37% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 286 times. Engine 59 (Discovery Bay) ran 16% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 126 times. CALFIRE assisted on 4% of the calls while Auto Aid assisted in 2%.
Average Response Time by Service Area:
- Bethel Island – 14:46 minutes
- Knightsen – 10:03 minutes
- Marsh Creek – 9:20 minutes
- Discovery Bay – 9:05 minutes
- Oakley – 7:17 minutes
- Brentwood – 7:01 minutes
Auto aid:
In the month of December, the District received auto aid from Contra Costa County Fire 14 times, with them sending 21 engines. The District sent auto aid to Contra Costa County Fire 23 times providing them with 25 engines.
During the month of November, Contra Costa County Fire came into the District 14 times with 21 engines and we responded into Contra Costa County Fire 22 times with 26 engines.
| Automatic Aid with Contra Costa County Fire 2015 | ||
| Month | Received | Provided |
| January | 35 | 5 |
| February | 19 | 10 |
| March | 36 | 19 |
| April | 28 | 18 |
| May | 37 | 13 |
| June | 50 | 16 |
| July | 56 | 33 |
| August | 53 | 33 |
| September | 19 | 16 |
| October | 12 | 17 |
| November | 14 | 22 |
| December | 14 | 23 |
| Total | 373 | 225 |
In 2014, the District received auto aid from Contra Costa County Fire 328 times with them sending 388 engines. The District sent auto aid to Contra Costa County Fire a total of 225 times in 2014, sending 270 engines
Major Incidents/ Reduced Responses and Mutual Aid Requests:
In the month of December, the District responded to 2 structure fires, 3 vegetation fires, 28 vehicle accidents and 16 vehicle accidents with rescue. Due to call volume during the month the District had zero engines available for responses 14 times, which totaled 4:48 hour
Operational Personnel:
The District is currently budgeted for 34 operational personnel, which are comprised of 3 Battalion Chiefs and 31 Station Suppression Personnel. As of January 1, our staffing level is 3 Battalion Chiefs and 29 station suppression personnel.
4 comments
If firefighters are not given tools to succeed, response times will continue to go up. Thanks a lot to the moronic voters out there.
Kim, please do not refer to the voters as moronic. Place blame where it is due which is 100 percent on a moronic board of directors. If you have been engaged you would know that is exactly what has hampered this district. You cannot expect voters to support bad decisions by bad decision makers.
Its time this conversation deals with cold hard facts. Its the only way we can move forward and get beyond the denial.
Let’s try honesty coupled with reality and see if that gets us back on track.
There is an overpopulation going on and its the city who is suppose to be up to par on issues like the lack of firemen.people pay taxes for those services,and if they cant be meant ,than why pay?if a responce time is 5 minutes and you have a person not breathing what do you think is going to happan?get it together city officials.
Bridget, the cities and county are not suppressing growth for any reason, especially substandard fire. Why, because they do not receive any money from it. The ECCFPD should have long ago refused approving new housing plans by their fire marshal. They should have or should claim an emergency that they cannot fulfill fire response to current standards and until further notice cannot promise current service standards to new homes. The cities and county will have to assume risk on new homes until the funding and standards are met or stop building. That would get attention. So, it’s not the voters, it’s the leaders we have from the district all the way to the state. They get paid to fix problems like this. They need to do their job before lives are lost. It’s that simple.
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