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41111 <br /> III. Fire and EMS Calls <br /> In 2011 and 2012,there were 809 fire and emergency medical services(EMS) calls <br /> reported. Of these, 763 were actually in the city; another 44 did not match to a known <br /> address, address range, or street location in the city. <br /> The distribution of fire and EMS call time is shown on Map 10. Each dot represents 10 <br /> minutes. Parcels with calls of less than 10 minutes duration are not represented. <br /> A. Fire and EMS Calls by Land Use <br /> As it was shown in Table 1,residential parcels accounted for the greatest percentage of <br /> the fire and EMS calls (37.5%), most of which were for single family. Tax exempt was <br /> responsible for 24.5%of the calls,with churches and private school uses taking up the <br /> vast majority of the time. Commercial was responsible for 18%, with and office and <br /> medical responsible for about 12%out of the 18%. Industrial and vacant each only had <br /> about 3%, respectively. <br /> B. Fire and EMS Calls by Type <br /> • The fire call list provides an incident code for each call. These codes have been matched <br /> with the national standardized list of fire codes to give a general and detailed description <br /> of each call type. Table 6 lists the calls by type and the number and amount of time spent <br /> on each during the 2011 and 2012 time period. EMS calls were the group with the largest <br /> amount of time spent, at 172 hours, followed by fire at 39 hours. Table 7 summarizes the <br /> numbers and time amounts by fire code. Medical assistance tops the list with 144 hours, <br /> followed by building fires, at 24. Motor vehicle accidents rank#3, followed by alarm <br /> system activation at#4. Map 11 shows the distribution of calls by fire, EMS and other <br /> call type. <br /> C. Top 50 Parcels with Fire and EMS Calls <br /> The top 50 parcels that were responsible for the greatest fire and EMS call time are listed <br /> in Table 8. The table also breaks down the call time into general categories of call type. <br /> There were 22 residential, 15 commercial, 8 exempt and 5 industrial. Presbyterian <br /> Homes, Group Health and Cardiac Pacemakers are in the top 10, and mostly have EMS <br /> calls. Bethel University and Northwestern University are exempt private uses (as is <br /> Presbyterian Homes)are within the top 10. Independent School District 621, Exempt <br /> Public Schools, is also in the top 10. The mobile home park is also within the top 5, <br /> mostly for EMS call time. <br /> • <br /> 16 <br />