The Farmersville Fire De­partment is serving a grow­ing community and with that growth comes an increase in fire service calls.

So it is, then, that the fire de­partment has released its 2020 fire-call report, which shows a significant increase over the previous year in various catego­ries of responses.

The fire department respond­ed to 83 motor vehicle wrecks in 2020, compared to 66 in 2019; it fought 15 structure fires this past year – all of which oc­curred outside the city limits, compared to 14 the previous year; medical calls accounted for 879 calls in 2020, compared to 741 in 2019; and lockouts required 23 responses this past year compared to 13 the previ­ous year.

The statistics were provided by the fire department, which reported that some categories of response saw a decrease year over year. The department responded to 25 persons in dis­tress calls in 2020, compared to 30 the year before and 22 haz­ardous conditions calls in 2020 compared to 38 in 2019.

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By John Kanelis • [email protected]