Annual report of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire

REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
41 Full-time Personnel
19 Paid-on-Call Personnel
The year 1991 was a normal year for the Hampton Fire Department,
normal in that the number of destructive fires that the town suffered in 1 989
and 1 990 were not repeated last year. The one major fire of the year
occurred on March 29 at Wick's Lumber yard on Lafayette Road. Four
alarms and assistance from Twelve area fire departments were required to
bring the fire under control. Fortunately in this case, the majority of the
property was saved and the company rebuilt and reopened several months
later.
The fire department did respond to a total of Twelve building fires during
the year that required the full commitment of Hampton apparatus and
manpower. Only Four of these fires required aid from our mutual aid
communities.
Besides the Twelve structure fires,
the department responded to an
additional 3,200 fire, medical aid or service calls during the year. These calls
are broken down as follows;
Fire Incidents 1,153
Emergency Medical 1,070
Service Calls 836
Walk-In Medicals 153
Our fire apparatus and ambulance responded out of town on a total of
26 requests for mutual aid assistance. They were calls to;
North Hampton
Hampton Falls
Seabrook
Stratham
Rye
Portsmouth
10
7
3
2
2
2
Mutual aid was received from Sixteen communities during 1991 and
from a total of 105 communities over the past Three years.
This department responded to Stratham on August 1 9th when that tragic
storm struck the Stratham Hill park and killed several persons. Hampton
firefighters worked through the night assisting the Stratham fire department
in clearing their roads of debris.
The Emergency Operations Center was activated twice during the year,
for Hurricane Bob on August 20th and for the nor'easter that struck the area
on October 30th. The hurricane brought together all of the administrative
staff, caused a voluntary evacuation of the beach during the tourist season
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