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Ramsey, Nowthen, St. Francis, Oak Grove, and Bethel, Minnesota <br />Feasibility Study for Shared or Cooperative Fire and Emergency Services <br />While seeing total service demand tells the story about how busy a department may be in general, <br />evaluating that service demand by type of incident is also useful in evaluating resource utilization. <br />Service demand by incident type is presented in the figure below by calendar year. <br />400 — <br />350 <br />300 <br />250 <br />200 <br />150 <br />100 <br />50 <br />0 <br />2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 <br />Figure 41: Service Demand by Incident Type (2011-2012) <br />2012 <br />2011 <br />2012 <br />Bethel Oak Grove Ramsey St. Francis <br />■ Fire ■ EMS ■ Other <br />As expected, those departments that are more involved in EMS responses have a higher rate of medical <br />incidents than other call types. While actual fire incidents comprise only a small part of each <br />department's overall workload, incidents classified as `other' (alarms, service calls, public assist, etc.) <br />make up a large percentage of overall service demand. Given the fact that not all study departments <br />provide primary emergency medical first response, ESCI also reviewed annual service demand based on <br />only fire and other non -medical responses to present a more `apples to apples' comparison of workload. <br />The figure below removes medical responses from the dataset. <br />,Emergency Services Cuomo/ <br />7 <br />page 49 <br />