The city's new fire chief wants residents to notice a difference in the department.
Everett Mueller, 47, was sworn in Sept. 4 as the new chief of the Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department. Mueller said one of his goals for the department is to increase education and outreach to the community. He wants most changes in the department to be data driven and his public education plans are one of those changes.
"Every time a piece of equipment goes out those doors, there's a report filed," Mueller said.
The department has computer programs where the information from those reports can be looked at to see trends. Staff can look at the trends to see where the department might need to work on educating the public.
Mueller gave an example that the department had responded to two fires in two weeks that both started from cloth saturated in a some type of substance starting on fire by itself.