East Contra Costa Fire Average Response Time in May at 8:30 Minutes

The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District reported at their monthly meeting that in the month of May, they had 606 service calls with an average response time of 8:30 minutes.

In the month of April, the District ran 535 calls with a response time of 8:31 minutes. In calendar year 2019, the District has an average response time of 8:19 minutes for 7,679 calls and in 2018 had a time of 8:16 minutes for 7,719.

During the month of May, the District responded to 6 residential structure fires, 0 commercial structure fire, 3 vehicle fires, 0 large vehicle fires, 4 vegetation fire and 13 exterior fires. The District also responded to 18 vehicle crashes with an additional 3 requiring rescue. They also had  4 motorcycle crashes, and 3 bicycle accident and 1 airplane crash.

According to the District, here is a breakdown of the Calls for Service by Station in the month of January:

• Engine 52 (Brentwood) ran 41% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 288 times
• Engine 53 (Oakley) ran 33% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 235 times.
• Engine 59 (Discovery Bay) ran 19% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 132 times.
• Auto Aid assisted in 5% of the calls for 33 rollouts.
• CALFIRE assisted in 3% of the calls for 19rollouts.
• Mutual Aid received assisted in 0% of the calls for 1 rollout.

Average Response Time by Service Area:

• Bethel Island – 14:18 Minutes (27 calls)
• Marsh Creek – 10:32 Minutes (19 calls)
• Discovery Bay/Byron – 9:28 Minutes (82 calls)
• Knightsen – 8:49 Minutes (23 calls)
• Brentwood – 7:44 minutes (306 calls)
• Oakley – 6:59 Minutes (149 calls)

In the month of May, the District received auto aid from Contra Costa Fire 33 times with them sending a total of 44 engines with 19 arriving on scene. Meanwhile the District sent CONFIRE auto aid 46 times for 60 engines which 23 arrived on scene.