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As a Town,we received a significant number of Mashpee Fire & Rescue Department Winter Storms that also caused an increase in our calls Emergency Response Statistics for service. The total amount of snow was one for the record books. I would like to thank the proactive Response Description 2014 2015 citizens that shoveled out their neighbors and assisted the Fire Department by clearing a path to the many FIRES hydrants that were buried by the snow. Sometimes the worst of the weather brings out the best in people, Private Dwellings 24 10 which we witnessed within our Town. Apartments 5 3 Hotels & Motels 0 0 Wildfire Planning Public Assembly 0 0 Wildfire mitigation projects continue in the All other Residential 0 1 Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. The use of Schools & Colleges 0 0 prescription fire for habitat restoration and fire fuels Health Care 0 0 reduction was accomplished again this season on U.S. Stores & Offices 1 0 Fish and Wildlife property near Great Hay Road and Industrial 0 0 Amy Brown Road. There were also prescribed fires Storage Structures 2 0 completed this spring and fall off of Great Hay Road Other Structures 2 1 between Mercantile Way and Degrass Road. With the partnership still in effect with the signing of a Fires in Highway Vehicles 4 5 Memorandum of Understanding in December, more Fires in Other Vehicles 0 2 beneficial prescribed burns are planned for 2016. All Fires Outside of Structures 6 10 of these planned prescription burns are accomplished Fires in the Wildland 6 10 with the existing partnership of U.S.Fish and Wildlife Fires in Rubbish 2 1 Service, Massachusetts Department of Conservation All Other Fires 2 3 and Recreation, Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife, Total Fires 54 46 Orenda Wildlife Land Trust,and the Town of Mashpee. New for 2015 Emergency Medical Responses 2150 2409 In March the Department added a Wildland Fire False Alarms 424 466 Engine to its fleet. This vehicle,along with our tactics, Mutual Aid Given 117 110 will be centered on structural protection and a safer Hazardous Materials Response 44 77 way to intercede with any fires, utilizing natural or Other Hazardous Response 22 33 manmade barriers. In July, with an Assistance to All Other Responses 422 475 Firefighters Federal Grant,the Department placed new Air Packs wom during firefighting operations that will Total for all Incidents 3233 3616 better protect our firefighters. Thank You I wish to thank the Board of Selectmen for their confidence in each and every member of the Fire Department. Further, I would like to thank the administration,department heads,and members of all Town departments. Your support and assistance is critical to the successful completion of our mission. On behalf of the Fire Department,I want to thank the citizens of Mashpee for their continued support and appreciation of our work. a Respectfully submitted, y " Thomas C. Rullo,Fire Chief 102