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Fire Chief Mallinger reports 1,932 incidents in 2025 and outlines response, training and data upgrades
Summary
Fire Chief Jason Mallinger told the North St. Paul council workshop that the fire department handled 1,932 incidents in 2025 (about 5.2 calls per day), with EMS comprising the majority. He highlighted response times, mutual/auto‑aid patterns, training hours, an ISO rating of 3 and adoption of a new national reporting system and analytics tools for 2026.
Fire Chief Jason Mallinger reported that North St. Paul’s fire department responded to 1,932 incidents in 2025 — an average of 5.2 calls per day and roughly 158 calls per month — and said EMS calls made up the largest share of that volume. "We had 1,932 total incidents averaged 5.2 incidents per day," Mallinger said as he presented monthly and hourly call patterns to the council during the workshop.
Mallinger broke the 2025 caseload into categories: about 1,519 EMS calls, 326 classified as "other," and 87 categorized as fires. He emphasized that the bulk of activity is medical in nature and that call timing varies by hour and day; a heatmap he presented showed most calls occur between about 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. "A lot of what I have is related to our response and the numbers and what we've seen," Mallinger said.
Why it matters: council members pressed on capacity and overlap when multiple incidents occur simultaneously. Mallinger said the department experienced 202 overlapping incidents in 2025 — calls that…
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