wells maine - 2023 annual report

https://www.wellstown.org/DocumentCenter/View/7501/2023-Annual-Town-Report-

wells maine has seperate ems and fire departments

lets try to figure out how they really operate

fd hired 4 medics ish - fd has approx 19 ft staff and 10 vols

fd went to 707 ems calls and had 25 fire calls

ems staffs 2 ft als ambs using per diem staffing

ems had approx 750 als calls plus 350 bls calls plus 50 transfers plus
800 non transports

ems went to 47 fire alarm activations

fd responds with out of town ambulances when wells ems is busy

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if ems runs 2 ft als ambs - then basically they are staffed at 16 to
20 fulltime people

if fd and ems were combined then they would have 40 ft people

from town website fd page - The department serves a community than
spans approximately 60 square miles and consists of approximately
10,600 year round residents and a population over 20,300 during the
summer months.

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ok - so it looks like their staffing should be 15 yearround fulltime
plus 25 summer staff - but they are like Cape Cod - they dont have any
'summer staffing' - the cops do but the FDs dont - weird

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ok - here is the real info -
https://www.firenews.org/me/w/wells/wellsme.html - wells fd has 6 huge
new fire trucks and 1 old tired little rescue buggy - no ambulances

very much looks like hatfield vs mccoys type situation

whatever