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Perrysburg Fire Division reports rise in calls and plans to add in-vehicle data terminals
Summary
The city's Fire Division told the safety committee it handled 3,584 incidents last year, saw a nearly 13% increase in runs and plans to equip fire apparatus with mobile data terminals to get up-to-date incident information while responding.
Perrysburg's Fire Division reported to the safety committee that incidents rose to 3,584 last year, a 12.75% increase from the previous year, and said it will add mobile data terminals (MDTs/MDCs) to its fire apparatus to improve in-field access to real-time information.
The update, delivered by Chief Bryce, said the department's average response time citywide is 7 minutes, 18 seconds, and that travel-time mapping from the city's two stations shows about 89% of the city lies within four minutes' travel time. The Chief characterized the incident increase as roughly 405 additional runs over the prior year and said the department will continue to track trends quarterly.
Chief Bryce told the committee the department is moving ahead with MDT and MDC hardware even though a countywide computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system rollout has been delayed. "The original plan was to wait until the county's CAD system came online. But as that goal post keeps moving ... I felt it necessary…
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