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Fargo Fire Chief: 14,592 incidents in 2025, department meets NFPA response goals
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Fire Chief Gary Lorenz told the City Commission the Fargo Fire Department handled 14,592 incidents in 2025, with about 60% medical calls, 224 structure fires, one death and six civilian injuries; he highlighted accreditation, Station 5's rebuild and recruitment efforts.
Fire Chief Gary Lorenz presented the Fargo Fire Department's 2025 annual report to the City Commission, saying the department responded to 14,592 incidents last year and that roughly 60% of those were emergency medical calls. "Our total call volume in 2025 was 14,592 incidents," Lorenz said.
Lorenz told commissioners that of EMS calls, first units arrived before ambulances roughly half the time and that the department's 90th-percentile response for EMS first-unit arrival was 8 minutes, 31 seconds. He framed those times against National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards and said…
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