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Salem Fire Department
 Community served: Salem, Mass. Department type: Career firefighters Fire stations (department)1: 4 Fire stations (town): 4 Square miles (town): 8.2 Square miles per station (town): 2.0 [ See rankings ]1 Some communities have more than one fire department. |
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SUMMARY: On-time rate, building fires receiving a response within 6 minutes, 1986-2002: 99.6%[ See rankings ]
On-time rate, early years, 1986-1998: 100.0%
On-time rate, recent years, 1999-2002: 99.3% DETAILS:
| 1986-1998 | 1999-2002 | 1986-2002 | |
| Fires with on-time response |
330 | 138 | 468 |
| Fires with slower response |
0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total building fires studied |
330 | 139 | 469 |
Insurance companies use ratings from ISO, a New Jersey company, to help determine fire insurance premiums. ISO rates communities on a scale from 1 (best) to 10 (no protection). The ratings are based on the community's fire department, water supply, and dispatch communications. The ratings are not based at all on response times. The same scale of 1 to 10 is applied to the
effectiveness of building codes. In a split fire rating, such as 4/9, the second number applies to properties more than 1,000 feet from a hydrant.
ISO fire protection rating, Nov. 2004: 3 ISO building code rating, residential, Nov. 2004: 4 ISO building code rating, commercial, Nov. 2004: 4
Fire spending FY 2003 (town only): $6,534,650 Fire spending as percent of total budget, FY 1987 (town only): 8.1% Fire spending per capita, FY 1987, in 2003 dollars (town only): $135 Change in fire spending per capita, 1987-2003 (town only): 17.3% Change in other municipal spending per capita, 1987-2003, adjusted for inflation (town only): 30.8% Fire spending per housing unit, FY 2003 (town only): $374 Fire spending per square mile, FY 2003 (town only): $797,979
County: Essex Population, 2004 (estimate): 41,333 Occupied housing units, 2000: 17,492 Median family income, 1999: $55,635 Population growth, 1990-2000: 6.1% Population growth, 1980-1990: -0.8% Tax base (assessed value per capita), FY 2004: $96,080 Total assessed value, FY 2004: $3,971,301,437 Single-family tax rate, FY 2004: $11.71 About this data
