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Bristol Kendall Fire Protection District breaks its record for most service calls · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Bristol Kendal Fire Protection District breaks its record for most
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  service calls. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. The Bristol Kendle Fire
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  Protection District station hit a record number of service calls
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  and responses in twenty twenty five. The previous record was
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  set in twenty twenty two with three thousand, seven hundred
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  and thirty three calls for service. In twenty twenty five,
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  the fire district shattered that by fielding four thousand, sixty
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  four calls for service. This is an increase of fourteen
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  point five percent from the previous year's number of three thousand,
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  four hundred and fifty six calls for service. The increase
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  of five nine er teen calls for service includes a
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  total of two thousand, six hundred and fifty nine EMS responses,
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  nineteen calls for structure fires, another fifty calls for other
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  types of fires, and three hundred and thirty six instances
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  of mutual aid given the greatest factor in the rising
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  call rates is the region's booming population. The fire district
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  is seeking to build another station to help meet the
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  needs of the growing community. The fire district serves an
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  area of around seven seven square miles in the Yorkville
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  area of Kendall County. This includes the majority of the
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  Bristol and Kendall townships. According to its website, the fire
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  district currently has three stations, one on East Beaver Street,
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  one on mckew Street, and one on Rosawinckle Street, all
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  in Yorkville. A new fire station is projected to cost
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  around twelve million dollars. The fire district's twenty twenty five
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  strategic plan within this year's budget includes three hundred thousand
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  dollars for possible land acquisition for a future fire station.
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  As of May twenty twenty five, the fire district employed
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  thirty five full time firefighters, with another twelve to fourteen
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  part time staffers rounding out the team. The fire district
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  hired an additional six new full time firefighters in December,
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  bringing the total team to fifty five members. Fire Chief
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  Jeremy Messersmith previously said the fire district is currently investing
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  to be ready for the community's future demands. We are
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  upping our staffing right now to try to be ahead
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  of the increase of call volume, Messersmith said. Now, if
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  we have to put another station in we will already
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  have the people working here and ready to go. Under
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  the current year's budget, the fire district expanded with five
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  million dollars in new vehicles, including two fire engines, one
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  ladder truck, and two netic units. As part of the
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  plan to increase staffing and training, the department has developed
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  in house training workshops to train the up and comers.
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  The in house classes have saved the department money and
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  allowed them to specialize the workshops to fit the needs
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  of the Yorkville community.