What We’ve Been Up To
CONGRATULATIONS TO RECRUIT CLASS #12: GETTING OUR NEWEST FIREFIGHTERS READY TO SERVE!
Our fall academy recruit class just graduated and they are now assigned to shift work. We are excited to have our 5 new Puget Sound Fire probationary firefighters on the line.
Congratulations to Probationary Firefighter’s Doan, Mosiman, Muno, Nguyen and Siu!
RECRUIT CLASS #13
Recruit Class #13 has just started in our first recruit academy of 2022. Puget Sound Fire currently has 17 recruits in this academy. Our recruits are scheduled to graduate from the academy in May, 2022.
SOUTH KING COUNTY FIRE TRAINING CONSORTIUM
The South King County Fire Training Consortium runs the 20-week Recruit Fire Academy. The SKCFTC is comprised of partner agencies that have come together for unified training that leads to consistency in operations. The Recruit Fire Academy teaches agencies’ newest hires all the required skills needed to serve their communities as firefighters. This includes using a self-contained breathing apparatus, fire hose operations, search and rescue, ladder use, technical rescue, vehicle extrication and much more. Recruits also spend five weeks of rigorous Emergency Medical Technician training before graduating the academy. Recruit firefighters graduate from the academy and report to their home agencies ready to ride on a fire engine as a probationary firefighter.
SHOW ME THE NUMBERS: DECEMBER UNIT RESPONSE NUMBERS
How many fires did we respond to last month? What types of calls do we respond to the most? How busy is the fire station in my community? Below is a table to help you understand how many responses your neighborhood fire station is dispatched to, along with the call types: Fire, EMS, Hazardous Materials, Service, and Other.
The information below is RESPONSES not INCIDENTS. This table shows the amount of times individual fire unit(s) from each station respond to an incident, not the amount of incidents our department responds to. For example, a basic aid call will typically have a single fire department unit respond. This counts as one incident and one responding unit. In comparison, a house fire will have multiple units respond to the single fire incident. At each incident, there can be multiple units from different stations. This would register as ONE incident, but with MULTIPLE responses.
| Station 45 | Station 46 | Station 71 | Station 72 | Station 73 | Station 74 | Station 75 | Station 76 | Station 77 | Station 78 | Station 80 | Station 81 | Station 83 | Sept. Total | |
| Fire | 3 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 68 |
| EMS | 178 | 189 | 416 | 128 | 206 | 375 | 101 | 78 | 146 | 68 | 70 | 86 | 70 | 2111 |
| HazMat | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 34 |
| Service Call | 3 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 73 |
| Other | 18 | 30 | 38 | 18 | 29 | 30 | 10 | 27 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 245 |
| TOTAL | 204 | 231 | 494 | 154 | 259 | 425 | 123 | 117 | 171 | 83 | 86 | 101 | 83 | 2531 |
