Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Piqua Ohio Fire department
c i t y i n f o r m a t i o n

Land Area?— 11.5 square miles ( Pickerington has 8.6 sq miles)
Coverage Area?— 55 square miles
Population?—20,738 (Pickerington has under 15,000)
Sworn Personnel?—29
Civilian?—1
b u d g e t
2005 Operating & Maintenance?—$278,427.00
2005 Personnel?—$2,062,553.00
2005 Capital?—$42,769.00 (Pickerington pays Violet Twp $2,2 Million per year in property taxes)
o p e r a t i o n s

Total Calls?—3,456 (Pickerington has less than 2000 calls per year)

Fire Calls?—466 (Pickerington has less than 400 fire calls each year)

EMS Calls?—2, 990 (Pickerington only has 1400 EMS calls per yr)

Average Response Time (EMS)
(dispatch to on scene) - 5:39
Average Response Time (Fire)
(dispatch to on scene) - 7:11
Total Fire Loss?—$634,540.00
f i r e p r e v e n t i o n
Inspections?—300
Educational Classes?—54
Fire Investigations?—15
Building Plan Review?—46
e q u i p m e n t a n d f a c i l i t i e s
Stations?—1
Front Line Fire Engines?—2
Reserve Fire Engines?—2
Ladder Truck?—1
Technical Rescue Truck?—1
Grass Fire Truck?—1
Fire Boat?—1
HazMat Command Vehicle?—1
Ambulances?—4
Fire Prevention Vehicle?—1
Fire Chief Vehicle ?–1
Utility Truck?—1

Wyoming Ohio Fire service

The Wyoming Department of FIRE - EMS provides full services to the 2.5 square miles
and 8,261 residents of Wyoming, as well as Advanced Life Support to the additional
11,500 permanent residents in Lockland, Lincoln Heights, and Arlington Heights.
During this year we also continued to provide some EMS coverage for the Village of
Elmwood Place as they successfully began to restructure the Fire and EMS protection
within their community.
Budget Overview in 2005, the total operating budget for the department was $ 447,941 with no
appreciable capital projects. This has the following breakdown by categories:

Salaries
$343,586
77 %

Transportation
1,600
0.3%

Training
5,800
1 %

Materials & Supplies
42,876
9.7%

Contractual Services
49,079
10.9%

Fire Hydrants
5,000
1.1%
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Operations
Fire - EMS Operations
yoming FIRE - EMS is a combination department ?– having a career fire chief and both part-time and paid-on-call personnel. The Emergency
Medical Services responds to all medical calls within Wyoming. Additionally paramedic services are contracted to three surrounding jurisdictions for Advanced Life Support coverage. Two paramedics are staffed for every 24-hour period. In 2005, there were 1,424 EMS calls. The total medical reimbursement billed for the City of Wyoming was $213,465 with an 87% collection rate. The receipts to the city's
general fund were $ 184,720. Fire personnel respond on a paid-on-call basis to every run that is dispatched for Station 97. All 42 volunteer firefighters have their own vocations, but offer their talents and skills to the operation of the Wyoming Fire - EMS. Fire personnel made 247 fire calls. These are categorized as actual fires or emergency calls such as fire or smoke alarms, overheated furnaces or air conditioning units, malfunctions in electrical appliances, damage to property as a result of storms, broken or frozen pipes, EMS
assists etc. The fire loss in the City of Wyoming for 2005, was $ 179,300, but more
importantly the property value saved by the Department was estimated at well over $ 9
million.