Kaysville fire chief reports rising call volume, response-time gap vs. national standard; council discusses west-side station

Kaysville Fire Chief Erickson delivered the department's 2024 annual report to the Kaysville City Council on April 10, saying the department answered about 1,961 calls last year, completed 96% of required training, and meets the city's cited response-time standard roughly 60% of the time compared with a 90% goal.

The report: why it matters

Chief Erickson said the department handled roughly 5.2 responses per day in 2024 and described an increase in medical calls and overlapping (“double and triple hit”) incidents that require mutual aid. He said the city met the response-time standard 60% of the time and that the commonly used target in national guidance is 90%.

Key facts and numbers from the presentation

- Total responses in 2024: about 1,961 (Chief Erickson's slides and remarks). That averages roughly 5.2 calls per day. - Training completion: 96% of required training hours among staff, per Erickson. - Apparent mutual-aid tallies given in the presentation: Kaysville provided mutual aid to Fruit Heights and Farmington and received mutual aid from Layton and Farmington. Chief Erickson cited specific counts in his slides (examples shown in the slides cited during the report: Kaysville gave 29 responses to Fruit Heights, 197 to Farmington, and 58 to Layton; Layton responded…