During January thru December 2009 we created 62,353 incidents for response.  Of those we had 40,268 Code 3 medical incidents; 12,186 Code 2 medicals; and 9,889 other types of calls. The breakdown by type is listed below. 

Annette Fountaine
Dispatch Manager/CAD Administrator

INCIDENT TYPES

Number of Incidents

1   Structure Fires

1111

2   Vehicle Fires

613

3   Grass/Wildland  (not fire danger season)

109

3A Grass/Wildland (fire danger medium level)

5

3B Grass/Wildland (fire danger high level and/or red flag)

1

4    Natural Gas Shutoff

292

5    Outside Fire (trash, dumpster, transformer etc)

711

6    Engine Utility (residential alarm, illegal burns, spill containments, wires down, check fire out, odor investigations, oven fires, police assists)

2069

7    Truck Utility (water shut off, elevator rescue, vehicle and residential lock-ins, hydrant shutoffs, ladder assist/OPD)

948

8    Hazardous Investigation

528

9    Airport (airplane related incidents/emergencies)

26

10  Commercial (Business) Fire Alarms

2490

11  BART (problems in underground BART locations, rescues)

6

12  Extrication/Rescue (people caught in machinery, vehicles etc)

427

13  EMS Code 3 Response (medical emergencies where fire and ambulances are dispatched-immediate medical aide needed)

40,268

14  EMS  Code 2 Response (non-emergency medical no fire is dispatched/ambulance only- no urgent care needed) Includes 3,957 -  5150 calls

12,186

15  Miscellaneous (usually investigation type calls and police assist/something unusual that doesn’t fall in other categories)

490

Mutual Aide Calls

43

TOTALS

62,343