BIDDEFORD — Recently released statistics for February 2018 show that members of the Biddeford Fire Department had a busy month responding to 368 emergency calls for assistance.

During February, Biddeford firefighters and Emergency Medical Service crews responded to 124 calls for a transport to the hospital and another 84 calls for hospital transport involved a fire engine being dispatched to the scene.

Biddeford EMS crews also were summoned to situations 27 times during the month in which no transportation to the hospital was needed and 14 fire engine calls with no transportation to the hospital required.

Rescue crews also provided 33 transports during February for patients from Southern Maine Health Care to another medical facility.

The Biddeford Fire Department provided mutual aid seven times in February for other nearby fire departments and received mutual aid four times during the month from other agencies.

Firefighters were dispatched seven times in February to the scene of motor vehicle accidents without injuries and four times for motor vehicle crashes with injuries.

Other calls during the month for firefighters included two reports of carbon monoxide, one propane leak, two carbon monoxide alarm malfunctions; a cable television line down, a telephone line down, two minor gasoline spills, and one hazardous condition.

Biddeford crews responded to one fire which was confined to a cooking appliance, one attempted illegal burn, three water problems and conducted six inside smoke or odor investigations during February. Crews also rendered public assistance four times during the month, performed one outside smoke or odor investigation and provided mutual aid twice to another agency for non-structural fires.

Five EMS calls for help were canceled en route during February, along with three fire calls that were canceled en route to the scene.

Fire crews investigated two fire box tampering calls during the month and 14 fire box pulls. Firefighters were dispatched twice for residential smoke detector activations and they responded a total of four times for residential alarm malfunctions.   

Six calls for assistance during the month were determined to be false, but with good intentions.

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