Youngstown Fire Chief Barry Finley spoke to the city’s Safety Committee Thursday afternoon. He shared the fire department’s statistics from 2019 as well as addressed the EMS situation.
He reported that there were 3,735 calls total.
Of them, 210 were structure fires and 396 were alarm drops at Youngstown State University. Chief Finley also addressed his vision for the department in the new year.
He wants all of his officers and firefighters to undergo extra training provided from the station. He says the only costs will be materials.
“These trainings and these techniques are very paramount to what we do, but we’ve gotten away from them because everybody is used to fighting fire, and we do a good job doing it, but the problem is fires are decreasing, so we need to keep our people on point,” said Finley.