Annual Response Totals - 2023
1/8/2024 • 4 months ago
Calendar Year 2023 Statistics:
In 2023 Cambridge fire companies responded to 17,355 Emergency Incidents which generated 36,384 responses by individual fire companies.
These responses include 52 building fires, 918 inside fires, 1042 fires of all categories, 7806 emergency medical calls, 199 elevator rescues, & much more.
For the list of the individual neighborhood fire company emergency responses, go to: Fire Statistics
Major fires during the year included a 6-alarm fire in April, which devastated the Faith Lutheran Church on Broadway; a 3-alarm in October at a residential building on Garden Street where one trapped person was rescued by firefighters via ladder; and a 3-alarm fire in November on Gore Street in East Cambridge.
The Cambridge Fire Department has been protecting out city since 1832.
