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Fire chief: call volume rising; ladder truck parts delivered and community risk-reduction program planned
Summary
Fire Chief Belletete told the council that firefighters responded to 159 calls in January and 2,170 calls in 2025 (about 400 more than 2023); leaf springs for the ladder truck have arrived for imminent installation and the department plans a community risk-reduction (fire prevention) program within months.
Fire Chief Belletete reported to the Greenville City Council on Feb. 23 that the department is seeing rising call volume and is taking steps to restore equipment and begin prevention work.
Belletete said crews extinguished a recent house fire and remain on scene to ensure it did not rekindle. He said leaf springs for the ladder truck arrived on Friday and that the assistant chief retrieved them from Pelham; installation was planned for the next morning so the ladder truck can return to service.
For January the department responded to 159 calls for service and handled 2,170 calls during calendar year 2025—about 400 more calls than in 2023. Belletete said roughly 80% of calls are medical-related. He told the council the department intends to implement a community risk reduction program focused on fire prevention education and hopes to have it operational within the next couple of months.
The council took no formal action on these operational reports; the updates were delivered as routine department-head information.
