Fire and ambulance report for week ending Nov. 30

By Charlene Sims, info@linncountyjournal.com

MOUND CITY – The Linn County Commissioners heard reports from the emergency services, fire and ambulance in Linn County on Monday, Dec. 2.

Linn County Fire Chief Randy Hegwald reported that there were 11 calls during the past week. Hegwald said that seven of those calls were false alarms. Two were at the same building and the people there realized that they were having problems.

Commission Chair Danny McCullough asked how the fire department dealt with the false alarms. He told McCullough that he started having the calls directed to him so that he could just head that way until the alarm was cancelled just in case there was a fire. He said this was kind of a remote facility and that is why they have it protected with an alarm system.

Hegwald said the facility was having a detector problem. He said if it was a school or something like that they would have to go into fire watch and there’s other procedures they have to follow

where there’s other people involved. 

American Medical Response (AMR) Dawn Brooks gave the month to date ambulance reports from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30. There have been a total of 150 calls resulting in 73 transports. The average response time is 15 minutes 35 seconds. The calls by city were:

• Blue Mound, 9 calls, 2 transports

• Centerville, 10 calls, 4 transports

• La Cygne, 30 calls, 15 transports

• Fontana, 5 calls, 3 transports

• Linn Valley, 7 calls, 4 transports

• Mound City, 24 calls, 12 transports

• Pleasanton, 43 calls, 20 transports

• Prescott, 7 calls, 24 transports

Response numbers and times for this time period by commission districts are:

District 1 - 45 responses, 21 transports, 15 minutes 3 seconds, average response time

District 2 - 55 responses, 31 transports, 13 minutes 51 seconds, average response time

District 3 - 50 responses, 21 transports, 17 minutes 59 seconds, average response time