Busiest Westchester Department?

[spin_the_wheel 460]

Not counting the bigger cities, what departments in Westchester do the most runs and # of working fires a year?

[Remember585 815]

Excluding the Career Departments / Combo Departments, I'd have to say Somers is probably the busiest. As for most fires - who knows, depends on who is writing the reports I suppose....

As for paid/combo - Perhaps Mohegan and/or Port Chester. I'm not including EMS runs.

[mfc2257 464]

I have a hunch that Ossining runs the most structure related fires in the county as well as the most mutual aid to neighboring structure fires.

Call volume I have to agree that Somers probably runs the most, but if you remove EMS I think it probably goes back to Ossining on volume.

Just a hunch.

[cas2383 22]

I think Mohegan Lake is up there too, literally and figuratively

Edited October 1, 2005 by cas2383

[JohnnyOV 2]

for just fire calls, yorktown runs alot, not sure if its number 1. If we ran ems too we would be number 1 or at least close to mohegan lol

[DMA327 12]

Mohegan does a couple thousand fires runs...EMS outta control

Somers does bout a little below that

Port Chester does A lOT of fire runs

Yorktowns gotta be doing 600 + runs

Mount Kisco does a crap load of runs too

Peekskill does a decent amt. of runs and they do a decent amt. of fires per year

not sure bout everyone else

[Guest]

port chester did 1660 last yr i beilve mohegan was up there also along with ossining

[CG206 29]

Mohegan runs an average of 2,500 EMS calls and 1,000 fire calls per year

[Guest]

If you include the combo departments Eastchester did a little over 3,000 calls last year

[mfc2257 464]

Runs or fires?

If the criteria is just runs (the number of times the pager goes off), then the prior posts are probably correct.

I still think Ossining runs the most amount of actual fires both in and out of their box area.

[truckman42 0]

I would have to say Ossining fire answers a lot of runs and they dont do ems and that they are 100% volunteer.

[Guest SQUADco119]

well since the question was fires its defenitly gotta be yonkers the busiest department in westchester. but i will say being the fact that im from croton the nieghboring town to ossinging yeah they do alot of fires a annually.

[RWC130 594]

You are ALL wrong! Archville FD does the most!

[Guest]

Yonkers FD

[Guest]

the original question said not counting the bigger cities, so yonkers is obviously not the answer they were looking for.

[Guest SQUADco119]

rcw is correct archville by far

[Guest SQUADco119]

I would have to say its probaly between OSSSINING/PEEKSKILL/PORT CHESTER! FIRE wise not call wise even though they run a pretty substantiol amount of alarms. I personaly think mohegan gets the most runs overall. Also elmsford is up there with the big dogs they did on average i think about 800 calls last year.

[Guest]

Archville HAHA!

I think it would be between OSSINING AND MOUNT KISCO!

Edited October 6, 2005 by SHFD8628

[csf248 0]

ok who is the highest FULL volunteer dept.?

[JohnnyOV 2]

ok who is the highest FULL volunteer dept.?

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lol, Kentland 33, you asked

[DMA327 12]

Yorktown, Kisco, or Somers FD are the busiest full volly dept.

[calhobs 110]

hey dont forget Potanco Hills think they had a call like 3 months ago

[csf248 0]

Yorktown, Kisco, or Somers FD are the busiest full volly dept.

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how many a year do they do

[DMA327 12]

kisco and Yorktown do prolly about 600+ each but Somers has to be doing at least a grand worth of fire runs

[ONLOCATION 24]

Another Factor I was thinking about is does it matter if the Department Runs EMS along W/Fire or just Fire?

[JohnnyOV 2]

i think there just looking for fire runs

[ONLOCATION 24]

i think there just looking for fire runs

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Thats what I figured so with this you really are seperating Fire and EMS in Somers' case?

[pjtm4 4]

Thats what I figured so with this you really are seperating Fire and EMS in Somers' case?

Who puts their tones out more Mohegan or Somers ?

[firebuff860 54]

Is there really a diiference between a slow and busy dept, paid or career? What about dept's who can put out their own fires???

[RES20CUE 40]

In 2004, Somers had 1504 calls, round about volume as follows:

Straight EMS- 875

Auto Accidents- 125 (Fire and EMS response)

Fire/Emergency- 500

So, if Somers didn't run Ambulances we would have had around 625 calls as a straight FD.

This year, Somers is on track to break 1700 calls, all 3 catergories are up!