(From the Joplin Police Department)
2020 year end statistical data for the Joplin Fire Department is as follows:
- The Joplin Fire Department responded to 8413 requests for assistance averaging 23 responses a day.
- District #1 (Downtown District) was our busiest district with 2595 responses or 31% of the call volume.
- EMS responses accounted for 65% of our call volume.
- The Joplin Fire Department responded to 71 "working" structure fires in the city limits of Joplin and an additional 26 "working" structure fires in our neighboring mutual/auto aid districts.
- Average response time to structure fires for the first arriving apparatus was 4 minutes and 49 seconds.
- Average response time for the full first alarm compliment of apparatus at a structure fire (2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 1 Rescue, and 1 Chief Officer) was 7 minutes and 53 seconds.
- Property value for all structure fires in the city limits of Joplin was $28.7 million dollars. $3.9 million of that value was damaged or destroyed for an 87% save rate.
- 37% of all structure fires were in vacant structures.
- The Joplin Fire Department responded to 15 technical rescues in 2020, a majority of which were swiftwater rescues.
- Thursday was the busiest day of the week and the hours of noon to 5pm were our busiest time of day.
We wish to thank the men and women of the Joplin Fire Department, our Dispatchers, EMS partners and Law Enforcement partners for the work and dedication shown through a relatively difficult and complicated year.
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