Happy New Year everyone! 2018 is out the door and 2019 is well underway. Here’s some statistics on what we did over the past year.

Your volunteers at RMES responded to 307 calls for service. Broken down into categories, this was 163 medical assists (53%), 68 rescues (22%), 55 fire & fire-related calls (18%), 5 hazardous materials calls (2%), and 16 “other” or uncategorized responses (5%).

Our busiest truck - no surprise, as usual - was 120 Rescue with 204 responses or two-thirds of total calls. Second was 120 Rapid Response with 78 responses or 25% of total calls.

Broken down by call type, our non-medical responses looked like this:

Alarms: 27
Citizen Assist/Service Call: 13
Motor Vehicle Collision: 12
Outside Fire: 11
Structure Fire: 6
Vehicle Fire: 6
Outside Smoke Investigation: 4
Mutual Aid/Assist Outside Agency: 3
Fuel Spill/Fuel Odor: 2
Gas Leak/Gas Odor: 2
Explosion: 1
Odor (Strange/Unknown): 1
Water Rescue: 1

Our medical responses included the following:

Motor Vehicle Collision with Injuries: 55
Falls: 21
Traumatic Injuries: 19
Unconscious/Fainting: 17
Sick Person: 11
Convulsions/Seizures: 10
Unknown Problem: 10
Abdominal Pain: 9
Chest Pain: 9
Breathing Problems: 8
Psychiatric Problems: 8
Transport to Hospital Only: 7
Hemorrhage/Laceration: 6
Stroke: 6
Cardiac Arrest: 5
Overdose/Ingestion/Poisoning: 4
Heart Problems: 3
Assault: 3
Allergies/Stings: 2
Back Pain: 2
Eye Problems/Injuries: 1
Headache: 1
Childbirth: 1

There are lots of great things coming to RMES in 2019 and we’ll be sure to keep you posted!

Everyone have a happy and safe 2019!