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PAST IMPACT OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS ON FIRE DEPARTMENT: A survey of the years of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and the first six months of 1988 was conducted in an effort to determine the level of impact that apartment buildings have had on the Roseville Fire Department. The number of responses that the Fire Department makes has steadily increased every year during the survey period. In addition the number of alarm -related calls has increased every year during the survey period. The number of actual structure fires during the survey period has remained almost constant. (See Table #1) Note: the statistics do not reflect the number of it fires involving dumpsters or cars at apartment buildings which is greater than the number of fires experienced in single family development. The number of alarm -related calls to apartment buildings is shown in Table #2. As can be seen, the number of alarm calls to apartment buildings has also increased during the survey period, although some stabilization of the number of alarm calls appears to be happening in 1988. The number of-tructure fires is broken down into the number of fires in single family homes and the number of fires in apartment buildings for the survey period. (See table #3). The fire loss statistics for Roseville in 1986 were compared to national fire loss statistics for the same year. Table 4A shows the national statistics on number of structure fires and number of fires in single family homes and"apartment buildings. Table 4B shows the same statistics for Roseville. Table 4C shows the percentages of structure fires involving single family homes and apartment buildings nationally. Table 4D shows the percentages that were experienced in Roseville. As can be seen in Tables 4A through 4D Roseville's fire history in apartment buildings is worse than the national experience. It should also be noted that Roseville's fire experience in single family homes is substantially lower than the national experience. Tables 5A deals with the dollar loss from structure fires nationally. The structural fire loss for Roseville is shown in Table 5B. The percentage of total dollar loss experienced nationally in single family homes and apartment buildings is shown in Table 5C. The Roseville percentages are shown in Table 5D. As can be seen in Tables 5C and 5D the fire loss in apartment buildings is slightly higher in Roseville than in the rest of the United States.