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That is the highest number of EMS calls the department has ever head and it was the fifth straight year that there were more than 6,000 EMS calls. Fire calls, on the other hand, numbered 473 last year, down 264 from the highest ever total of 727 in 2019. With the exception of 2018 and 2019, fire calls have generally hovered from the mid-400s to mid-500s over the past 10 years. Calls requiring response from multiple units have increased greatly over the past decade, reaching nearly 3,300 in 2020, the highest number ever. 2019 was the first year that the department had more than 3,000 multiple unit calls and there have only been over 2,000 twice before that, in 2016 and 2018.
TFES’s current pumper truck will reach the end of its service life in 2022 and council identified replacing it as a capital project in the 2020 budget with the goal of tendering its replacement by the end of this year, since it could take up a year to be built and delivered. TFES Chief Selby Brown said the new truck will have features to make it useful for fighting urban and wildland fires as well as extra foam capabilities to help when battling fires in industrial areas. “There’s special adaptations that aren’t on any of the other trucks and possibly not too many others in the province would be built like this truck,” Brown said.