VIDEO: Bend Fire & Rescue recently released numbers giving a look at how many and what type of calls they responded to in 2022. The department received 13,353 calls for service, up 6.6 percent from the previous year. There were 1,200 calls in December alone. Hood offered some details of a very busy month.
"A little abnormal for us -- the first time in history to be running that many calls," Battalion Chief Andy Hood said Friday. "I don't specifically know what happened then. Our community is growing, so every month, it has the potential to certainly increase our call volume."
Hood explained, "Firefighters work 48-hour schedules. They come to work for two days, then they have four days off. It just repeats itself throughout the year."