Fire & EMS Calls

 Volunteer Hours

1,782.0      Hours at Fire Calls

3,693.0      Hours at EMS Calls

   636.0      Hours at Meetings

   800.0      Hours Truck & Ambulance Checks

   438.0      Hours for Fire Prevention

Training

Fire

   648.0       Hours In house Fire

   546.5       Hours Off site Fire

1,194.5       Hours Fire Total

EMS

   278.0       Hours In house EMS

2,248.0       Hours Off site EMS

2,526.0       Hours EMS Total

3,720.5    Total Training Hours

Total Hours:    11,069.5 Volunteer Hours

Ø     Average of 284 hours per volunteer or 7.1 work weeks for each volunteer.

Ø     If paid the volunteer hours it would have been a cost of $57,007.92 at minimum wage of $5.15 per hour.

Ø     Average response to each fire call was 13 volunteers.

Paid Hours

Chief Bassett:                  2,341.0

Asst. Chief Neumiller:       2,273.0

Transfers Paid                  1,054.5

Total Paid Hours:            5,668.5

 Burn permits issued in:   2001  491

                                         2000  479

Click here to see the numbers referred to in the following facts:

• Volunteers are paid only if they drive an ambulance or are the EMT for out of town transfers.

• Chief Bassett and Assistant Chief Neumiller are paid only  for 2,080 hours each. 

• Fire calls for the year of 2001 increased by almost 15% while EMS calls decreased by almost 19%.

• This is the fifth year in row for an increase in fire calls and the third year in a row for a decrease in EMS calls.

• Analysis of the 2001 calls by month show both fire and EMS calls for service peaked during the month of July.

• This continues a two-year trend for the month of July being the busiest of the year for both fire and EMS calls even though both fire and EMS calls are down from the month of July in 2000. The Department responded to 31 fire calls and 91 EMS calls in July of 2000. 

• The 2001 trend comparison shows a continued decrease in the number of Structure Fires, but numbers remain the same as the year 2000 at 8 calls.

• In 2001 vehicle fires have tied with the seven-year high of 18 reported in 1999.  The lowest number of vehicle fires occurred in 1998 with only 4 reported. 

• The biggest call increase occurred with the reporting of false alarms.  False alarms increased by 62% over 2000.

• The most significant decrease is in the number of wild-land fires.  Numbers in 2001 decreased 171% from 2000.

• The Ogallala Volunteer Fire Department requested Mutual Aid on the Gibson trailer house fire in January from both Keystone-Lemoyne and Brule.  Keystone-Lemoyne also assisted with a tanker when the Department’s tanker was out of service with transmission repairs for a grass fire in June.  Finally Brule assisted with an ambulance at a multiple victim motor vehicle accident on Interstate 80 in July.

• The Ogallala Volunteer Fire Department is automatically paged to all structure fires within Keystone Lemoyne’s portion of the Ogallala Rural Fire District. 

• The Ogallala Volunteer Fire Department has an automatic aid agreement with the Brule Volunteer Fire Department to respond to all fire and rescue calls within one mile either direction of only the Interstate 80 dividing line between districts.

• The Ogallala Volunteer Fire Department has an automatic aid agreement with the Paxton Volunteer Fire Department to respond to all fire and rescue calls within one mile either direction of the dividing line between districts. 

• In 2001 there was a tie for the most false alarms with the Ogallala Community Hospital and Prairie View School both having eight. 

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