by holly@hollywooddesignpro.com | Aug 2, 2022
With a 54% increase in call volume in the last decade, we have only increased our number of firefighters by 2.5%.
by holly@hollywooddesignpro.com | Aug 2, 2022
About 900 times each day in 2030 – once every 1.5 minutes – someone in Phoenix will dial 911 in the midst of an emergency. It might be a car crash or a heart attack, a building fire or a mountain rescue. You deserve an immediate response by highly trained men and...
by holly@hollywooddesignpro.com | Aug 2, 2022
If the City’s rate of 911 calls continues to increase at its present rate without corresponding new resources for Phoenix firefighters – including new fire stations, new fire engines and more firefighters – we expect 911 response times to grow to 11.4 minutes by...
by holly@hollywooddesignpro.com | Jul 30, 2022
A dozen years ago, the City of Phoenix fire fleet included 65 fire engines, 23 ambulances and 14 ladder trucks stationed in fire houses spread across the city’s 517 square miles. Its sprawling geography makes Phoenix one of the largest urban cities in the U.S. – and...
by holly@hollywooddesignpro.com | Aug 2, 2020
In 2020, Phoenix firefighters answered an average of 9.1 calls per fire engine per shift. The number of units citywide running more than 3,000 calls per year – considered a crisis level according to national standards – quadrupled to 71!
