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Fire chief reports rising call volume; community paramedicine cut extended-care calls
Summary
Westfield Fire Chief Rob Gaylor told the board April 2025 call volume rose compared with April 2024, and he credited a new community paramedic program with reducing extended-care-facility calls from 66 to 46 year over year.
Westfield Fire Chief Rob Gaylor told the Board of Public Works and Safety that the department continues to see rising call volume and that a recently added community paramedic role has reduced calls to extended-care facilities.
Gaylor said the department recorded 445 apparatus responses in April 2025 compared with 385 in April 2024, an increase he cited as about 13.48 percent. "April was a busy month for us," Gaylor said,…
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