The Wheat Ridge Fire Protection District responded to 327 calls for service with an average response time for priority one calls of 4 minutes and 01 seconds.  The following is a breakdown of the calls that your firefighters responded to in April.

Additional information: for the month, the District responded to 96.8% of all Priority 1 and Priority 2 calls in under 6 minutes.  In comparison to our EMS contract with Rural Metro (RM), RM is required to maintain a 90% fractal for Priority 1 ans Priority 2 calls.  For Priority 1 calls, RM has 6 minutes to respond.  For Priority 2 calls, RM has 10 minutes to respond.  Fractal means RM must respond to 90% of all Priority 1 calls (lights and sirens) within six minutes and respond to all Priority 2 calls (no lights and sirens) within ten minutes.  

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On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Wheat Ridge Fire Fighters donated their time and energy to assist a local family modify their home to allow wheelchair access for honorary Fire Chief Shawn Miller. Please click on the link below to view the 9 News story.

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