WILDWOOD – The Wildwood City Fire Department releases their October 2023 statistics:
Members of the Wildwood City Fire Department responded to 261 fire and emergency medical related incidents for the month of October 2023. Members of the department also conducted 494 Fire Safety Inspections for the month.
The statistics for the month are as follows:
Squad Company 3 responded to the following incidents:
| Fires (including building fires, cooking fires, rubbish fires, vehicle fires) | 2 |
| Rescue/EMS (MVA’s, medical assists, elevator entrapments, water rescues) | 59 |
| Hazardous Conditions (gas leaks, electrical hazards, aircraft stand-by) | 10 |
| Service Calls (animal rescues, assist police department, public assists) | 14 |
| Good Intent Calls (smoke scares, odor of smoke, investigations with no incident) | 18 |
| False Alarm & False Calls (malfunctioning alarm systems, malicious alarms, unintentional alarms) | 28 |
| Total Engine Company Responses | 131 |
Ambulance 3 responded to the following incidents:
| Alcohol, drugs, overdose, toxins | 9 |
| Cardiac, chest pains, hypotension, hypertension | 10 |
| Bleeding, trauma, injuries, assaults | 17 |
| Weakness, malaise, sickness, dizziness, pain | 48 |
| Respiratory, shortness of breath, dyspnea | 3 |
| Seizure, stroke, neurological, unconscious, syncopal episodes, diabetic, hypoglycemic, altered mental status | 12 |
| Behavioral, depression, suicidal, anxiety, hallucination | 7 |
| General (DOA, fever, dehydration, allergic reaction, OB/Gyn.) | 24 |
| Total Emergency Medical Service Responses | 130 |
