Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Letang has announced that the Dominica Fire and Ambulance Service Department has responded to over 10,000 calls for 2022.
He was speaking during an interview with State-Owned Radio DBS.
“2022 was a mixed year for the fire and ambulance service, we experienced some good fortunes and as expected some challenging times, but we can clearly say that 2022 has gone and the fire services has continued our good relations, our good response, good relations with the public and we continue to improve as much as possible,” he said.
He continued, “One of the ways that we always look at the year in review is that our data that actually tells how we have performed and one of the interesting ways is, the Chief Fire Officer has always been saying that within the department at least 80% of the work is that of the ambulance.”
Letang added, “And we can clearly see based on our data that for 2022 we have crossed the threshold of 10,000 calls that we responded to and in 2021 we had 10,862, but so far for the year we have reached the 10,000 calls threshold once again and that will be the second time in history.”
He said this means that there was an increasing rate at which the department responded to ambulance calls, be it trauma or medical.
Meantime, Letang revealed that this year there was a decline in the number of fires the department responded to.
“In 2022 we [saw] a decline in the amount of fire calls we responded to,” Letang explained. “In 2021 we had 200 calls that were responded to, but so far in 2022–and we are talking about up till the end of November–we responded to 153 fire calls and that is actually a reduction.”
He further explained that one of the main reasons for that is the reduction in the number of bushfires that we had for the year which reduced significantly, “so we are looking at a big reduction for 2022.”
Letang went on to state that there was an increase in motor vehicular accidents that the fire and ambulance service responded to.
As of November 30, 62 motor vehicular accidents were reported for this year, compared to 53 in 2021.
He believes the reason for this is that “We have a lot more traffic, in some cases, we have a little more of the not-so-careful side of driving…”
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We saw a decline in the number* of fire calls, not the ‘amount’ of fire calls. Fire calls are countable and you even gave a number, so use the correct word!
That said, Good leadership, fire service
No the reason is not only slightly more traffic but rather the lack of policing and enforcing traffic rules. Half of the police force is engaged in protecting Skerrit, his strange Missus, his off springs and some so called Ministers.
Vehicle accidents cause in Dominica is due to the lack of police patrols on our streets. Speed limit on our roads in Dominica is nonexistent. Drivers do not get pulled over by the cops for speeding. So actually, I don’t understand why this fireman is saying that calls for motor vehicle accidents have increased when the truth is, there is no traffic control by police officers on our streets. All these people are doing is showing the world how incompetent they really are. Now Skeritt wants to generate revenue by any means possible. The laziest jobs on the island are the ambulance and fire department Services. You all sit 8 months doing nothing but playing Dominoes. Then when calls start coming in you all want to charge people so they could less. All you need to do all you damn job without complain. That’s what you all are going on “STATE RADIO SKERITT” to do – Complain. BULL…SH…IT.