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TOY’S FOR JOY & THE JERRY WOODS HOLIDAY ENGINE!

Puget Sound Fire & the Kent Firefighters Foundation are gearing up to help families in need throughout the communities that we serve in Covington, Kent, Maple Valley, SeaTac & King Co Fire Districts #37 & #44. Because of your toy donations to Toys for Joy, and food donations to the Jerry Wood’s Holiday Engine, we are able to provide food and toys to families in need. So many families struggle during the holidays and with your help we can spread holiday cheer.  

All Puget Sound Fire stations are now accepting new, unwrapped toys. We also will continue our Toys for Joy gift wrapping events – this year the events will be held at the 84th Ave Business Center, located at 20811 84th Ave S. ​Kent, WA 98032, instead of Station 75. Reservation will be required and more information will be available soon.  

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You can donate directly to the Maple Valley Food Bank, as well as the Toys for Joy program using the above QR codes. All collected food and toys will be distributed to members in the communities that we serve.

The Jerry Woods Holiday Engine will be collecting food donations on each Friday and Saturday evening, December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17. Please check back for additional information or visit their website at: https://holidayengine.org/

SHOW ME THE NUMBERS: Q3 2022 UNIT RESPONSE NUMBERS

How many fires did we respond to last quarter? 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	Q3 Total
Fire	136	71	289	35	79	210	51	63	32	23	22	56	13	1080
EMS	573	711	1363	413	562	1415	737	318	480	274	232	354	239	7671
HazMat	10	14	26	8	10	41	54	39	9	1	10	26	9	257
Service Call	21	26	38	16	24	74	32	25	1731	9	8	20	15	339
Other	243	229	231	62	174	236	162	128	90	60	48	90	56	1809
TOTAL	983	1051	1947	534	849	1976	1036	573	642	367	320	546	332	11156