Average Calls Per Year

[cbdemt]

Whats your average number of calls per year?

 

[sunshine1026]

I included only EMS calls in my total of 400. Adding fire calls would bump the total up by about 200 to 600 calls per year.

 

[rescuecpt]

Eaton's Neck Fire Department Ambulance Calls: 60 - 100 per year.

Commack Volunteer Ambulance Corps: 2500 - 3000 per year.

 

[SafetyPro2]

We average about 750 calls a year total with 60-70% being EMS.

 

[MMiz]

I'd get fired if I posted it, but tons.

 

[ResTech]

My career department runs around 1500 calls a year and my volly station run's a little over 1800 a year.

 

[MMiz]

Originally posted by ResTech@Jun 30 2004, 10:45 PM
My career department runs around 1500 calls a year and my volly station run's a little over 1800 a year.

That's a lot of calls for a volunteer department. Are they mostly ALS, BLS, a pretty good mix?

How many units do you have?

I'm just shocked to see that many for a volunteer department, you guys must be dedicated.

 

[ResTech]

Well, my volly department is a combination of volunteer and paid. We have about three full-timers and four or five part-time personnel around the clock. Volunteers supplement staffing and always have priority on calls. Most call's are handled by at least one paid staff since we only have about 12 active volunteer's. We are a small group in comparison to most stations.

We are an all BLS station operating three ambulance's and a EIR (emergency incident rehab) unit. ALS is provided from the hospitals via a chase unit.

 

[MMiz]

Originally posted by ResTech@Jun 30 2004, 11:09 PM
Well, my volly department is a combination of volunteer and paid. We have about three full-timers and four or five part-time personnel around the clock. Volunteers supplement staffing and always have priority on calls. Most call's are handled by at least one paid staff since we only have about 12 active volunteer's. We are a small group in comparison to most stations.

We are an all BLS station operating three ambulance's and a EIR (emergency incident rehab) unit. ALS is provided from the hospitals via a chase unit.

I'm always amazed at volunteer EMS. What is a chase unit? We have Paramedic First Responders, a medic in a Tahoe, which is pretty standard around this area. Are they similar?

 

[rescuecpt]

My ambulance corps with 2500 - 3000 is vollie too. We have 4 shifts a day, 0000-0700, 0700-1300, 1300-1900, 1900-0000.

We are each required to have one regular shift per week (mine is Saturdays 0700-1300), and then pick up extra shifts as needed due to absences or other needs.

There are a couple shifts right now that have no ALS provider (Weds 1900-0000 and Fri 1900-0000) so the ALS providers are required to rotate through those shifts.

There are paid medics Monday 0000 through Friday 1900, but they are not supposed to leave district - basically, they go to a call, if there is vollie ALS, they go back to HQ to be ready to respond to the next call. If there is no vollie, they ride to the hospital. If we get a 24 (mutual aid), they cannot go because it is out of district, even if it means sending a BLS only crew.

 

[ResTech]

Yeah, a "chase unit" is a non-transporting ALS unit usually an SUV type vehicle. There is only one FD in my county that is ALS and operates MICU's. The rest of the county is served by ALS from the two hospital based medic units.