On Thursday, Contra Costa Fire Chief Jeff Carman spoke to the Antioch Rotary Club about the fire district and a variety of issues facing the District and answered questions.
Chief Carman provided an overview of the fire district which had more than 65,000 calls for service over the past year with Battalion 8 being one of the busiest in the county–Antioch, Bay Point and Pittsburg.
Carman reported that Antioch was its busiest city in the Battalion with more than 8,000 calls being considered “significant”. He also explained how the Battalion had a house fire of some kind every 1.5 days. Meanwhile, a lot of the calls have longer periods of times where firefighters are committed because of shootings, stabbings, and other major medical incidents.