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2005 FIRE STAFFING SURVEY

Sorted population per firefighter

City

Population

Square Miles Protected

% of Town General Fund Budget allotted to FD

Total # FF assigned to Emergency Operations

Daily Shift Numbers

Population per Firefighter

# Fire Calls

# EMS Calls

# Fire Stations

Hickory

42,433

42.50

18.93%

108

36

392.90

1725

2712

7

Rocky Mount

56,000

35.57

20.26%

129

43

434.11

2371

4143

7

Concord

61,070

54.50

22.21%

138

46

442.54

6534

4085

8

Greenville

63,477

29.30

16.11%

132

38

480.89

1536

1818

5

Gastonia

72,000

48.20

17.85%

144

45

500.00

430

4817

8

Jacksonville

33,580

18.50

13.47%

67

21

501.19

772

1603

4

Goldsboro

39,147

25.98

15.44%

75

25

521.96

3897

N/A

5

Wilson

45,738

27.00

18.74%

80

22

571.73

250

2097

5

Burlington

46,332

23.30

13.81%

75

25

617.76

1284

3382

5

Cary

107,973

48.50

16.48%

166

60

650.44

5137

2699

6

Chapel Hill

51,485

21.10

13.05%

66

22

780.08

2210

1069

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Chapel Hill with addition of 18 firefighters

51,485

21.10

 

84

28

612.92

2210

1069

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