This from Wayne VanBeveren:
Hello! I don’t know if this has been posted before but these are the 2018 run totals for CFD engines, trucks, squads, battalion chiefs, and hazmat companies. I don’t recall seeing them so I hope it’s new information.
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#1 by Wayne on June 20, 2019 - 5:10 PM
5-1-5 is the Special Operations Battalion Chief and they’re located at Engine 5s house.
#2 by Eric Haak on June 20, 2019 - 4:26 PM
Just interested to know if CFD keeps records on working fires or just run totals. It would be interesting information to see.
#3 by John Antkowski on June 20, 2019 - 4:02 PM
Nice job, Wayne!! Thank you very much!! John
#4 by michael m on June 20, 2019 - 2:51 PM
Where is Hazmat 515 located at?
#5 by Robby on June 20, 2019 - 2:37 PM
I have yet to see the busiest Ambo list, if anybody has them
#6 by Bill Post on June 20, 2019 - 3:15 AM
Chuck as far as I know a high-rise still gets four engines and four trucks. If it has changed I’m not aware of it.
New York City had high-rise responses years before Chicago started increasing them after the fatal fire at 69 W Washington in October 2003.
Truck 25 has some older buildings on Sheridan Road that could qualify as a high-rise. There are a few north of Touhy and east of Sheridan and also on Sheridan near Pratt. The majority of high-rise buildings are in Truck 47’s still district. Truck 25 would be the 4th truck probably as far north as 5400 north Sheridan Road or Balmoral Avenue, and on a high-rise still they wouldn’t be due south of Foster. I really need to inquire into this myself but I think the source of many of the calls are EMS runs despite the fact the Engine 102 is an ALS company. My theory is that they probably are sending the truck on many BLS and invalid assist runs.
The FD would automatically dispatch a fire company for an ALS run that was not a cardiac case if the nearest ALS ambulance was more than 18 blocks from the incident. I don’t know if they still follow this since the 15 BLS ambulances were converted to ALS in September 2014. In the case of a BLS incident, if the BLS ambulance was more than four or 32 blocks away, a fire company would be dispatched. I haven’t kept up to date with that so I really don’t know if they still do this. It makes sense that they would dispatch a company if the ambulance was more than four miles away since a BLS run isn’t as urgent. As changes were made over four years ago, first responder criteria could be diferentd and there may be people on this site who are more current about ambulance assist company dispatch.
So I think that EMS runs are probably the reason for Truck 25’s ranking but someone may have more accurate information.
#7 by Chuck on June 20, 2019 - 1:38 AM
Bill, what might account for Truck 25’s odd numbers is there was a policy after the 69 W. Washington fire years ago that they were sending multiple trucks (3? 4?) on high rise stills – I am not sure if that’s still being done but that would account for part of it, if they’re following 47 and 22 along the lakefront on Sheridan Road and whatnot as the 3rd or 4th truck.
#8 by Bill Post on June 20, 2019 - 12:20 AM
Mike that’s a good point however I think the main reason is that Engine 59 is an ALS engine so they give most of the EMS runs to them. Did you know that Engine 70 and 59 each have their own still districts? Engine 59 is first due on Peterson and south of Peterson and Elmdale while Engine 70 is first due north of Peterson until around Northshore Avenue when Engine 102 takes over.
Also Engine 59 gets more change of quarters than Engine 70.
#9 by Marty Coyne on June 19, 2019 - 11:39 PM
Mike, that’s cause 59 is ALS while 70 is not.
#10 by Mike on June 19, 2019 - 11:10 PM
Bill did you notice also that engine 59 did almost 1,000 more runs then engine 70 and they’re in the same house.
#11 by Bill Post on June 19, 2019 - 10:44 PM
Thanks for sending it in Wayne. In the last column on the right side, the battalion chief run numbers were cut off.
There are some interesting surprises. One is that Engine 122 was the second busiest engine and also that Truck 49 was the busiest truck. Trucks 29 and 20 have been at the top for a number of years already so they didn’t surprise me but I don’t see how Truck 49 came out on top as they are not an ALS truck although Engine 126 is. Truck 29 is an ALS truck and Truck 20 covers a good part of Englewood.
Another surprise is that while Truck 22 is the busiest truck on the northside, both Engine’s 55 and 78 are busier than Engine 83 which is in the same house as Truck 22. As Engine 83 is an ALS company I would have figured that they’d be busier than the truck.
Another surprise is that Truck 25 is busier than Truck 47. Considering that Truck 47 is located between Uptown (Truck 22’s district) and Rogers Park (Truck 25’s district), I would have expected Truck 47 to be the busier truck. Not only is Truck 25 the 13th busiest but they had more runs than Aerial Tower 1 and Truck 51, both of which get quite a few runs. Truck 25 was also busier then Tower Ladder 34 and Truck 41 which covers west Englewood and is an ALS company. Truck 25 is not an ALS company. Assuming that the stats for Truck 25 are correct, some of those numbers are surprising. I live on the west end of Truck 25’s still district and believe me the west end isn’t that busy for fires. Both Engines 71 and 102 are ALS companies and usually get dispatched on EMS runs before Truck 25.
#12 by Marty Coyne on June 19, 2019 - 10:42 PM
Interesting to see the effect of A-77. E-38 dropped from 1 to 9th place and had 800 less runs from 2017 to 2018.
#13 by Mike on June 19, 2019 - 6:47 PM
That’s interesting that engine 104 almost got out run by the fire boat engine 2.