Mesquite Fire & Rescue submits the following call statistics for the week of 5/4/15 through 5/10/2015:

Total Calls For Service: 53* (Compared to 46 in 2014)
911 Transports: 27
Non Transports: 13
Inter-facility Transports: 8
Fire Related Incidents: 6

FIRE LOG:

5/4/15

  • E-11, T-31, Battalion 3 responded to the Senior Center for a General Fire Alarm. Staff states alarm sometimes goes off when they have a power failure and that is what happened.  No evidence of smoke or fire and alarm was reset.

5/6/15

  • R-31, R-11, E-11, Battalion 3, Mercy Air 11, Mercy Air 7, NHP, Responded to the I-15 mm 112 for a reported vehicle rollover. Arrived to find a full-sized pickup that had ran into the back of a semi truck at high speed.  Both occupants of the vehicle suffering serious injuries.  Passenger flown from the scene.  Driver transported to MM 93 by R-11 to meet a second helicopter from Las Vegas.  Both occupants went to UMC Trauma.

5/7/15

  • E-11, R-11, Chief 2 Responded to Falcon Ridge Parkway @ the Southbound I-15 onramp for a vehicle fire. Arrived to find the front of the vehicle fully involved with fire.  Extinguished without incident and fire appears accidental in nature.

Non Transports include: Patient refusals, lift assists, patient deceased at scene, no patient found, no incident found and incidents handled by other agencies.

*Call totals do not always add up to the Total Calls for Service due to multiple patients/incident types at a single incident.