THE YEAR 2012

Southwestern NH District Fire Mutual Aid Dispatch Center dispatched 16,613 incidents in 2012. From calls that involved a single piece of apparatus responding to calls that involved many towns responding to a multi alarm building fire, each incident involves receiving and making phone calls and can involve up to 100 or more radio transmissions. Quite often these incidents seem to happen at the same time, bringing more of a challenge to the dispatchers on duty. When an incident is not being dispatched and tracked, the phones are still ringing for various reasons. We at Fire Mutual Aid, from the command staff to the dispatchers to the radio repair technicians take great pride in our profession and strive to do the best job we can for the citizens and responders that we are here to serve 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. From all of us, please have a safe and happy 2013.

14 YEARS AGO TODAY

Does anyone remember how cold it was today, 14 years ago? I bet if you ask any of the firefighters battling the Mariposa Theater fire in Peterborough how cold it was on January 1, 1999, they could tell you! The fire went to 3 alarms and involved many departments that cold day.

PLEASE REMEMBER TODAY

Please take a moment today to remember Bellows Falls Firefighters Dana Fuller and Terry Brown who died in the line of duty 31 years ago today at the Star Hotel Fire on December 29,1981. We never forget.

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