Frisco firefighters answered 1,837 calls in October, and the places that needed them most often were not businesses or highways but homes for older residents.
The Landing at Watermere drew 29 responses during the month, the most of any address in the city, according to the fire department's monthly report to the City Council. Mustang Creek Estates followed with 27, Watermere with 25 and Parkview with 20. All four are senior living facilities. The only other address in the top five was the Frisco Police Department, with 16.
The age figures point the same way. Of the 1,402 patients crews treated in October, 553 were 65 or older, about 39%. The largest single group was people 75 to 84, at 229. Ambulances took 840 of those patients to a hospital, or 60%, and Medical City Frisco received the most, 236.
Fewer fires, steady medical calls
Medical and rescue calls made up the bulk of the work again, at roughly 1,225 for the month. Actual fires were rare: the department counted 21 fire incidents, down from 25 in September and 46 in August. So far this year, crews have logged 17,173 primary responses, including 11,308 medical and rescue calls and 285 fires.
Response times improved compared with last October. The citywide 90th-percentile response, the time within which crews reached nine of every 10 calls, was 8 minutes 8 seconds, down from 8:41 a year earlier. The average response fell from 6:18 to 5:59.
Most of the city's 10 fire districts got faster, with District 3 cutting its 90th-percentile time by almost two minutes, to 7:39. District 5 went the other way, slowing from 7:07 to 8:18.
