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Salisbury Fire Chief reports rising calls, above-average resuscitation rate and program expansions
Summary
Fire Chief Rob Frampton told the council that combined fire and EMS calls rose about 4–5% year-over-year through Q3 2025, with EMS increases outside city limits, a 23.2% community discharge rate after cardiac arrest resuscitations and program updates including opioid outreach, buprenorphine inductions and a restarted cadet program.
Fire Chief Rob Frampton briefed the council during the Nov. 10 work session on the Salisbury Fire Department's third-quarter 2025 statistics.
Frampton said the department recorded a roughly 4–5% increase in calls compared with 2024, with EMS accounting for most of the rise and many of those calls occurring outside city limits. He noted that the department has absorbed call-volume increases with the same staffing levels as 2022 and that response-unit availability has declined as minutes between calls…
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