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the Council on Aging and Board of Health to monitor industrial 0 0 activities within the Town that this Department can Storage Structures 2 3 assist with. Other Structures 0 1 Fires in Highway Vehicles 2 6 The Fire Inspection Division conducted 415 Fires in Other Vehicles 0 0 Building Department Permit application reviews, Structures 8 7 Str Outside O of issued 743 Fire Department Permits, and conducted Fires Fires O the Wof Strd 8 9 535 site inspections during 2022. Fires in Rubbish 2 0 WILDFIRE PLANNING All Other Fires 4 3 Wildfire mitigation projects continue in the Total Fires 44 52 Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. The use of prescription fire for habitat restoration and fire fuels Emergency Medical Responses 266 3 514 5 reduction was completed this year on State and False Alarms 66 10 Federal lands. There are plans to continue these Hazardous Materials Response 79 65 programs in 2023 to accomplish beneficial burns by Other Hazardous Response 101 64 the Massachusetts Division and Federal Department of All Other Responses 457 517 Fisheries and Wildlife. All of these planned prescription Total for all Incidents 4189 4224 burns are accomplished in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife, Orenda Wildlife Land Trust, and the Report of the Town of Mashpee. GIS/NG911/CRS Coordinator THANK YOU I wish to thank the Select Board for their confidence in every member of the Fire Department. Further, I To the Honorable Select Board and Citizens of the would like to thank the administration, department Town of Mashpee heads, and members of all Town departments. Your The GIS Coordinator is responsible for the support and assistance are critical to the successful Geographic Information Systems of the town along completion of our mission. with local administration of the Next Generation (NG) On behalf of the Fire Department,I want to thank 911 program, and the coordination of the Community the citizens of Mashpee for their continued support and Rating System (CRS). appreciation of our work. The CRS is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that gives communities Respectfully submitted, potential discounts on certain flood insurance rates based on flood mitigation steps a community has John F.Phelan,Fire Chief implemented. Mashpee underwent a five-year review this year of its CRS program and was reassessed at a Category 7, which provides some residents living Mashpee Fire &Rescue Department within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) with a Emergency Response Statistics 15% discount on flood insurance. The role of the CRS Response Description 2021 2022 Coordinator is to ensure relevant programs are properly documented for annual review and an in-house audit Fires conducted by FEMA every five years. Private Dwellings 13 16 The NG911 program continued refinement of Apartments 2 5 a master address list and development of a map of Hotels &Motels 1 0 points that was derived from statewide mapping of Public Assembly 0 1 buildings. Previous years used a system referred to All other Residential 0 0 as the (E)nhanced 911 system. This system relied on Schools &Colleges 0 0 a caller's address based on a predicted number range Health Care 0 0 on a given street and lacked the accuracy expected in Stores & Offices 2 1 117