BIDDEFORD — Recently released statistics for September 2017 show that members of the Biddeford Fire Department had a very busy month to kick off the fall season.

Fire and EMS crews from Biddeford handled a total of 483 calls during the month.

Here’s a breakdown of calls responded to by firefighters during September:

• Fire in a building, 2

• Mutual aid, structure fire, 1

• Fire confined to cooking appliance, 1

• Trash or rubbish fire, 2

• Vehicle fire, 1

• Mulch fire, 1

• Brush or woods fire, 2

• EMS calls, no transport, 56

• Rescue engine dispatched, no transport, 18

• EMS call rescue only, transsport to hospital, 140

• EMS call w/engine, transport to hospital, 96

• EMS transport to Southern Maine Health Care, 32

• Receive mutual aid for EMS call, 4

• Provide mutual aid for EMS call, 5

• Motor vehicle crash without injury, 5

• Motor vehicle crash with an injury, 14

• Motor vehicle crash with extrication, 3

• Hazmat minor oil or gas spill, 1

• Electrical problem, 1

• Trees or wires down, 2

• Attempted illegal burn, 1

• Lockout vehicle/structure, 2

• Water problem, 1

• Inside smoke/odor investigation, 1

• Public assist, 10

• Provide assist for police or other agency, 2

• Mutual aid, non-structure fire, 1

• Unpermitted burn, 1

• Campfire investigation, 1

• Canceled en route, 7

• Outside smok/odor investigation, 4

• Supervised box water flow,  1

• Supervised box pulls, 30

• Supervised box tamper or trouble, 2

• False alarm box malfunction, 3

• False call good intent, 4

• Smoke detector activation residential, 10

• Residential alarm malfunction, 9

• Citizen complaint, 1

— Executive Editor Ed Pierce can be reached at 282-1535 ext. 326 or by email at editor@journaltribune.com