Seven fire engines. Seven ambulances. Two Advanced Life Support units. Three rescue trucks and two utility transport vehicles. Add four skis and two boats for ocean emergencies, and that is everything that the Guam Fire Department owns in its active fleet of emergency responding vehicles.
And although the number of calls that GFD expects to take this year is thousands less than the year before, the number is still mind boggling.
Residents have averaged about 60 calls per day, and about 1,850 per month. That’s about 22,000 calls they expect to take this year.
“We could always use new vehicles and we need them at times,” said Lt. Nick Garrido, spokesman for the department. “There’s wear and tear due to roads, the hard water and other components within the pump system, and the normal wear and tear on the vehicles.”