Lake Ozark FPD Reports Record Numbers

As expected, another lake area fire protection district is reporting record numbers.  Lake Ozark FPD says they responded to 1,350 calls in 2017.  That was 150 more calls than they handled in the previous year.  The total includes 129 overlapping runs.  The majority of the calls were for EMS runs, which totaled 856. They also responded to 127 motor vehicle accidents.  Brush fire calls more than doubled the number of structure fires.  There were 33 brush fire runs, while they responded to 14 calls for structure fires.