"The Monroe Fire Department responds to a very diverse range of incident types. Not only does the department respond to structure fires, vehicle fires, trash / dumpster fires, alarms, and other fire-related emergencies, but request for emergency medical service and hazardous materials mitigation."

Statistically, these statistics will show that the Monroe Fire Department response follows most national trends in that requests for emergency medical service far outweigh those for more traditional fire-related emergencies. It is for this reason that over twenty years ago the Monroe Fire Department began responding to EMS incidents and training firefighters as EMTs and paramedics.

Response Data for 2010
Source: Departmental Incident Reporting

Fire
Structure Fires	148
False Alarms	657
Vehicle Fires	53
All Other	145
Total Fire Incidents		1,003
Emergency Medical Incidents
EMS, Non Vehicle Accident	2,541
Vehicle Accident, with Injuries	333
Vehicle, Pedestrian	33
Vehicle Accident, without Injuries	167
Other EMS/Rescue	508
Total Emergency Medical Incidents		3,582
Hazardous Materials Incidents		172
Miscellaneous Incidents
Service Requests	609
Other	475
No Incident Type	24
Total Other Incidents		1,108
Total Incidents - 2010		5,865