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Chaffee County Fire Protection District reports rising calls, warns of EV fire water needs; launches community CPR classes
Summary
Chaffee County Fire Protection District representatives told the Town of Buena Vista Board of Trustees on Jan. 14 that the district handled 608 calls in 2024 and is seeing an increase in incidents inside town limits.
Chaffee County Fire Protection District representatives told the Town of Buena Vista Board of Trustees on Jan. 14 that the district handled 608 calls in 2024 and is seeing an increase in incidents inside town limits.
"We had 608 calls in 2024," the Chaffee County Fire Protection District representative said, adding that about "162 of them were within the town of Buena Vista." The presenter stressed the district is not the community's primary medical responder: "We don't run medical. We're not primary medical."
The district also summarized inspection work: 34 short‑term rental (STR) inspections were completed between August and the end of December 2024, and 108 commercial inspections were recorded for Buena Vista in 2024. Staffing changed over the year; the district said it lost an inspector in…
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