Tampa City Council member Luis Viera called for immediate relief for North Tampa's Fire Station 13 after it was ranked by a national trade publication as having the 20th busiest call log in the United States.
"The statistics that I will be talking about, they demand relief, and they demand action," Viera said at Thursday's city council meeting. He said the station is in dire need of both additional firefighters and equipment.
He said last year Station 13, located at 2713 E. Annie St. and assigned an area that includes Busch Gardens and the University Area, responded to 11,000 calls for service. "It's one out of 23 stations, but one in seven calls citywide came from the range of Station 13," Viera said. "Station 13 had 5,300 runs, making it the 20th busiest station in the United States of America."