{"id":296311,"date":"2022-12-30T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=296311"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:13:58","slug":"deputy-fire-chief-lauds-increased-rate-of-emergency-call-response-on-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/deputy-fire-chief-lauds-increased-rate-of-emergency-call-response-on-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Fire Chief lauds increased rate of emergency call response on island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_211361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211361\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-211361\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wayne-Letang-e1546948251610-642x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Letang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Letang has announced that the Dominica Fire and Ambulance Service Department has responded to over 10,000 calls for 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was speaking during an interview with State-Owned Radio DBS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c2022 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cOne 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letang added, \u201cAnd 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said this means that there was an increasing rate at which the department responded to ambulance calls, be it trauma or medical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meantime, Letang revealed that this year there was a decline in the number of fires the department responded to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn 2022 we [saw] a decline in the amount of fire calls we responded to,\u201d Letang explained. \u201cIn 2021 we had 200 calls that were responded to, but so far in 2022&#8211;and we are talking about up till the end of November&#8211;we responded to 153 fire calls and that is actually a reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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, \u201cso we are looking at a big reduction for 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letang went on to state that there was an increase in motor vehicular accidents that the fire and ambulance service responded to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of November 30, 62 motor vehicular accidents were reported for this year, compared to 53 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He believes the reason for this is that \u201cWe have a lot more traffic, in some cases, we have a little more of the not-so-careful side of driving\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Letang has announced that the Dominica Fire and Ambulance Service Department has responded to over 10,000 calls for 2022. 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