The Charlottetown Fire Department wasn’t quite as busy in December as it was in November.
The volume of calls dropped from 87 in November to 58 in December.
Station 1 on Kent Street handled the lion’s share of the work, responding to 35 calls. Seven of those calls involved an alarm going off due to cooking, six were related to work taking place on an alarm and four responses were due to someone accidentally setting off an alarm. There was also one elevator rescue, two accidents and one garbage can fire.
Station 2 in Sherwood handled 23 calls, six of them for an alarm going off due to cooking. There were also three equipment malfunction calls, three calls related to smoke in a house and three calls for mutual aid.
Sherwood firefighters also responded to two accidents and one propane leak.
