The Sylvania Township Fire Department is urging voters to pass a new fire levy in an effort to keep the township and city safe. Issue 13 will be on the Nov. 3 ballot and will address a 35.7% increase in service calls in the past five years, according to the department. "This levy is most important now due to the increase in population and due to the increase of our run volume. We need more firefighters and fire trucks," said Ryan Sedlock, President of Sylvania Firefighters IAFF Local 2243. "We have a decrease in private ambulance services that we relied on for a lot of years here and we're taking the brunt of that."