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Fremont Fire Chief says 2025 was busiest year on record; EMS calls drive growth
Summary
Fire Chief Todd Burn told council the department handled 4,398 calls in 2025 (a 7.6% increase), driven largely by medical calls; he reported training hours, response‑time metrics, equipment delivery timelines and collaborative response to the Horizon Biofuel explosion.
Fire Chief Todd Burn presented the Fremont Fire Department's 2025 annual report and described a year of record demand and expanded training. "2025 was our busiest year yet. We had 4,398 calls last year," Burn said, adding that EMS calls accounted for the majority of the workload.
Key figures in the presentation included approximately 4,024 medical calls (an 8.43% increase), 182 motor‑vehicle accidents, 31 advanced life support intercepts and 374 fire responses. The department recorded 6,269 training hours (an increase of roughly 45%) and reported three civilian deaths tied to the Horizon Biofuel explosion; no firefighters were reported injured on EMS incidents.
Chief Burn reviewed response time benchmarks and said the department met national turnout and travel time targets only some of the time, and he described planned capital updates: a new ambulance expected within weeks, a new engine by late spring/early summer and forthcoming architectural renderings for a second station. He also outlined an outlook for 2026 that—if call volume remains steady—projects an 8–10% increase.
Councilors thanked the chief and discussed geographic distributions of calls and the prospect of satellite EMS coverage for north Fremont. The council voted to receive and file the fire department report.
