DE PERE – De Pere’s fire department responded to 3,463 calls last year, including 2,922 EMS calls and 541 fire calls.
While that’s only a 1.88% increase in total calls over the past year, it’s a 27% rise in total calls over the last five years and a 48.6% increase in total calls over the last 10 years.
Since 2014, the earliest the data were available, call volume has risen 56.62%…