What We’ve Been Up To

CONGRATULATIONS TO RECRUIT CLASS #13: GETTING OUR NEWEST FIREFIGHTERS READY TO SERVE!

Our Winter 2022 academy recruit class just graduated and they are now assigned to shift work. We are excited to have our 15 new Puget Sound Fire probationary firefighters on the line.

Congratulations to our newest Probationary Firefighter’s! Also congratulations to PFF Jeremiah McNeal who received the Marty Hauer Physical Fitness Award.

Recruit Class #13 spent 20 rigorous weeks earning their Firefighter I, Firefighter II, Hazardous Materials Operations, and Emergency Medical Technician certifications.

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: Q1 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	Q1 Total
Fire	68	46	188	16	44	99	17	19	14	6	7	22	5	551
EMS	505	559	1392	352	567	1297	372	267	454	205	182	228	233	6613
HazMat	10	15	31	2	14	42	27	42	8	4	6	23	5	229
Service Call	20	18	70	11	33	64	31	20	17	14	6	8	7	319
Other	212	185	129	56	167	220	119	153	95	44	58	53	43	1622
TOTAL	815	823	1898	437	825	1722	566	501	588	273	259	334	293	9334