Tipton Volunteer Fire Department     407 Lynn St. Tipton, IA     52772

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Year End Report 2010-2011 12 Meetings 27 Drills 10 Pre Plans 4 Hose Tests 68 Calls for Service 46 Non Indident Activities 165 Events @ $35 = $5775.00

Tipton restored the former 188 Quick Attack as an additional fire apparatus.

Breakdown of Calls 26 City 36 Rural 3 Mutual Aid 3 at I-80 68 Calls Roll-Out Time After Page= 2:40* Average cost per volunteer hour nation wide is = $18.00 Total Estimated Loss to the Community is $182,202.00

*=This number signifies the time between when the firefighters are notified of a call by their pagers and when the first fire truck rolls out of the door. Tipton Fire Department's roll-out time remains to be one of the best in the entire state of Iowa

Narrative: Tipton Fire responded to 12 less calls than the previous year.

The most active time of day was 1pm while to most active days were Sun/Wed.

10 Year Report 2001-2011

Call Breakdown Car Accident/Extrication- Grass/Field Fire-  Mutual Aid for Another Town- False Alarm- Storm Watch- Structure Fire- Vehicle Fires- Smoke Scare-  Electrical- Controlled Burn (False Alarm) - HAZ MAT (Hazardous Materials) Emergency- Miscellaneous- Trash Fire- Farm Equipment Fire- Person Search- Investigate/Gas Odor- Land Medical Helicopter- Cooking-Related Fire- Methamphetamine Lab Stand-By-  Wrong Department Paged- Bomb Scare- River Retrieval- Wash Graffiti- Assist: -Wrecker-  -EMS- -Law-

Total Number of Calls- 771 Total Number of Manhours- 22,716 Average Roll-Out Time- 2:40 Total Losses Estimate- 1,273,252 Total Number of Fire-Relatd Deaths- 1

In 2001, a young child was killed in this mobile home fire.