Fire, rescue report cites strides, but majority of night calls still aren’t answered by ‘first due’
March 11, 2008
Fire, rescue report cites strides, but majority of night calls still aren’t answered by ‘first due’ on OurValley.org
While the volunteer fire and rescue organizations have made great strides in service in the past few years, Botetourt County continues to struggle with response times and with numbers of persons available to respond to requests for assistance during certain times of the week, according to a new emergency services strategic report presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
Calls for mutual aid from neighboring jurisdictions continue. “It has become a routine daily practice to have EMS incidents roll over to mutual aid agencies without any response from the first-due agency,” the report states. The first due agency in Botetourt County responds to 47 percent of the calls during the daytime and 68 percent of calls at nighttime.
