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Cal FIRE presents July–September incident report: 885 incidents, 4.5-minute average response time
Summary
Cal FIRE briefed the council on third-quarter operations: 885 incidents (seasonal increase), station call counts, 4.5-minute average response time, mutual aid tallies, 139 plan reviews, and 307 inspections completed.
Cal FIRE provided its July 1–Sept. 30 quarterly report to the Lake Elsinore City Council, reporting a total of 885 incidents in the quarter and an average response time of 4.5 minutes.
Chief Reid summarized activity by station: Station 10 handled 330 calls; Station 85 (McVicker Park) 547 calls; Canyon Hills Fire Station 94 513 calls; and the Rosetta Canyon quint 345 calls. The quarter included seven residential structure fires, 151 traffic collisions, 32 vegetation fires and the remainder categorized as medical aids.
Chief Reid reported mutual and automatic aid numbers: Canyon Lake assisted Lake Elsinore 21 times and Lake Elsinore assisted Canyon Lake 18 times; assistance was also exchanged with Wildomar and Menifee (staff gave totals during the presentation). The Office of the Fire Marshal completed 139 plan reviews (10-day average turnaround) and averaged two days to complete inspections, totaling 307 inspections for the quarter.
Chief Reid highlighted outreach and education activities, including the Future Leaders of America tours that exposed students to fire-service careers and readiness training. He closed by inviting questions; council members thanked staff for emergency-services work.
No new policy actions or budget requests were presented during the briefing; the item was informational.
