What's your call volume?

Til the last post I thought I might win the prize but we are METROPOLITAN compared to the above.

Small volunteer service, 55 square miles, population 2,200. 300 calls a year. Would be less but we are on a major road between NYC and two large universitites so we have a high voume of MVC's.
 
About 5000 calls per year. Our primary coverage is our county,1100 sq. mi. (2845sq. km.), with a population of 47000. We run three ALS trucks 24/7 and one ALS 8 hrs/day Mon - Sat. We avg. 2 long haul transfers per day to Halifax. 1hr:45min one way. In our provincial system it doesn't matter where you are from or where you are at, an empty truck is an available truck. You will be put to use. Today while in the city waiting for our return transfer we did two 911 calls. We won't get credit for them as they didn't happen in "our" area.
 
100,000 plus, 5 ALS trucks, 18 BLS.
 
Main job: 80,000 to 90,000, both ALS and BLS coverage for two cities. I do between 5 and 12 per 12hr shift.

Secondary job: about 30,000, mostly non-emergency transports. My 911 unit does 1 to 5 calls in 12 hrs.

Volunteer squad: about 500 calls a year. At 2 nights per week I could go a couple of months without a call.
 
I work full time for a fire department that responds between 500-600 calls a year coverage area 1.5 sq miles, a paramedic unit that responds to between 10,000-12,000 calls a year coverage area 20 sq miles and a rescue company that is qrs certified that runs 3,000-5,000 ems call a year but 2.5 sq miles
 
EMT192229 said:
I work full time for a fire department that responds between 500-600 calls a year coverage area 1.5 sq miles, a paramedic unit that responds to between 10,000-12,000 calls a year coverage area 20 sq miles and a rescue company that is qrs certified that runs 3,000-5,000 ems call a year but 2.5 sq miles
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wow...you have to win the vote for smallest coverage area!! wow!
 
Not sure about year-by-year totals but at my busy service the BLS unit averages 8-15 calls every 12 hours. ALS units average about 6 each.

At the POC service, there is only 1 unit (ALS) and it averages 3 calls per week.
However I've seen it go a month with nothing and Ive also seen it do 9 calls in one day. (County dispatch about had a coronary that day)
 
all i can say about our call volume is that it is alot
 
I fly full time, but where my part time ground service where I cut my teeth runs 1,000 calls per month with 4 trucks; or 12,000 calls per year with 4 trucks.
 
I respond over twenty acres on foot.

About eight a shift, counting walk-ins. Maybe five a month are genuine emergencies, and many are preventions where we stop it before it goes out of hand. Most are asthma/want inhaler without S/S.
I average a little over a mile an average shift.
 
gillysaurus said:
I rode along with a tiny fire department a few times, and they only get around 600 calls a year. It was mellow enough to make cupcakes one night.
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My ambulance service is pretty slow, we get about 1500-1800 a year. A gal that works there does her canning and stuff there!

My VFD only gets aroud 100-150 a year and most are just medical. Probably around 40 fire calls. The last structure call was a little shed way back in Dec of '07. Havent had a house fire for like a year.
 
I have a feeling we do things differently here in the UK :P

We have regionalised services over here, the one i work for covers an area of 6,400sq miles and with 4.6mil population.

To do this we have a fleet of (approximately) 380 A&E ambulances, 185 rapid response cars and 300 urgent/transfer ambulances.

We receive around 550,000 emergency calls per year in our control room. You don't get bored anyway ;)
 
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