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Chesterton Fire Department reports on September activity

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The Chesterton Fire Department responded to 94 calls in September, down 20 calls--or 16 percent--from the 112 to which it responded in August.

Of those 94 calls, 68--or 72 percent--were EMS runs of one kind or another. The CFD went on 60 EMS runs in August, by way of contrast, but in that busy month medical calls accounted for only 54 percent of the department’s activity.

The CFD responded to six actual fires in August, five of them minor: an overheated exhaust fan smoked up a restroom facility at Liberty Intermediate School; a wall-mounted heating unit malfunctioned at the Addison Pointe nursing home, causing an electrical plug and outlet to melt; an interior wall of a garage in the 200 block of South Ninth Street sustained some damage in what the CFD said was probably an electrical fire; the contents of a dumpster in the 300 block of Broadway burned after being ignited, cause undetermined; and a vehicle caught fire on I-94.

There was one other blaze, a large one: an abandoned barn at 268E 1050N in Jackson Township was set afire by a person or persons unknown. No one was injured and no financial loss was incurred by the owner of the property, the Town of Chesterton. The scene was in the Liberty Township Volunteer FD’s jurisdiction and the CFD responded under a mutual-aid agreement.

The CFD also investigated nine reports of smoke or fire, four reports of open burns, three reports of natural-gas leaks, and one report of an arcing power line; performed extrications at the scenes of three accidents; participated in the search for a bicyclist who managed to lose himself in a wood in the Tremont area of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; and assisted the Portage FD at the scene of a near drowning at West Beach, also in the National Lakeshore.

EMS Calls

Of the CFD’s 68 EMS calls, 22 of them--or 33 percent--were for “Sick Person,” a catch-all category used for non-specific medical calls. A person could be complaining of a headache or dizziness or Chesterton Police could be asking the CFD to respond to a scene to treat a patient with unknown symptoms.

Ten of the 68 calls--or 15 percent--were for “Falls,” another catch-call category used at any scene in which the CFD is required to lift a person. The patient could have fallen but he or she might also be recovering from surgery and simply needs to be lifted from a prone position.

Seven calls were for “Breathing Problems”; four each for ”Unconscious/Fainting,” “Traumatic Injury,” and “Chest Pain”; three for “Convulsions/Seizures”; two each for “Diabetic Problems” and “Hemorrhage/Laceration”; and one each for “Heart Problem” and “Cardiac/Respiratory Arrest/Death.”

 

Posted 10/9/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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