The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District announced that in the month of January, it ran a total of 651 calls for service with an average response time of 8:12 minutes.
In the month of December 2016, the District ran a total of 601 service calls with an average response time of 7:42 minutes. According to the District, here is a look at each stations response times for the month of January:
- Brentwood West – 151 calls at 7:18 minutes
- Brentwood East – 143 calls at 7:52 minutes
- Discovery Bay/Byron – 82 calls at 10:56 minutes
- Oakley – 197 calls at 7:35 minutes
- Knightsen – 19 calls at 10:05 minutes
- Bethel Island – 34 calls at 16:11 minutes
- Marsh Creek – 19 calls at 10:24 minutes.
Overall, Engine 52 (Brentwood) had 33% of the engine company rollouts to calls while Engine 93 was at 29%. Engine 94 (Knightsen) had 18% while Engine 59 (Discovery Bay) had 13%.
CALFIRE was at 4% (35) while auto aid was received on 3% (28) of the calls.
Auto aid:
In the month of January, District received auto aid from Contra Costa County Fire 17 times, with them sending 28 engines. The District sent auto aid to Contra Costa County Fire 29 times providing them with 32 engines. During the month of December Contra Costa County Fire came into the District 14 times with 25 engines and we responded into Contra Costa County Fire 16 times with 16 engines
Major Incidents/ Reduced Responses and Mutual Aid Requests:
In the month of January, the District responded to 15 structure fires, 22 vehicle accidents and 5 vehicle accidents with rescue. Due to call volume during the month the District had zero engines available for responses 14 times, which totaled 4:14 hours
Operational Personnel:
The District is currently budgeted for 40 operational personnel, which are comprised of 4
Battalion Chiefs and 36 Station Suppression Personnel. As of February1, our staffing level is 3
Battalion Chiefs and 37 station suppression personnel
The operational report will be presented to the fire board on Monday at their monthly meeting now located at the Brentwood City Council Chambers beginning at 6:30 pm.
