Last year the Lathrop Manteca Fire District responded to 4,419 calls within its boundaries – a 14 percent increase over the total number of calls in 2021.

According the agency, there were 382 fires in Lathrop in 2022 – as well as 2,635 medical calls, 69 calls for hazardous conditions, 224 service calls, and 271 false alarms. A total of 1,220 calls were classified as “other.”

In 2021 the agency responded to 3,871 total calls – with most of those calls, 2,289 of them, occurring during the daylight hours. Station 31, which underwent and extensive renovation in 2022, was the city’s busiest fire station during the previous year.

Considering that the agency responded to only 2,320 calls for service less than a decade ago in 2014, the number of calls has nearly doubled during that time frame as the city emerged as one of the fastest growing in the State of California.

Since 2014 Lathrop has added a third fire station in Lathrop in River Islands on Somerston Parkway – a facility that has become the department’s administrative headquarters as it will be centrally located in the community when the massive residential community at River Islands is built out.

Now that the 2022 calendar year is in the books, the agency will work on compiling its annual Year End report to inform the public about the workings of the agency and the data breakdown of the work that has been done over the course of the last 12 months.

The report is typically presented to the Board of Directors for their approval before it released to the general public.

While the agency’s budget has grown significantly over the last decade, the agency has received clean audits of its finances with absolutely no findings in 2020 or 2021, and has received a certificate of transparency for the way in which it provides information to the public that it serves.

For additional information, visit the agency’s website at www.lfmfire.org.

To contact Bulletin reporter Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3544.