Indian River Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. Annual Incident Statistics

The Indian River Volunteer Fire Company responded to 413 emergency incidents during Calendar Year 2008 while serving the communities of Oak Orchard, Riverdale, Long Neck and surrounding vicinities.

It is estimated that the volunteers of Indian River Volunteer Fire Company, your community friends, contributed labor and manpower resources of 6,550 hours and 39 minutes during this same time period for emergency response incidents alone.

The estimated personnel costs (estimated at Delaware Minimum Wage Rate plus social security costs) for these incidents would be $50,722.94 and illustrated by month as follows:

January, 2008 - 380 hrs. 56 minutes - $2,723.67;

February, 2008 - 513 hrs. 54 minutes - $3,674.39;

March, 2008 - 695 hrs. 40 minutes - $4,974.02;

April, 2008 - 603 hrs. 43 minutes - $4,316.57;

May, 2008 - 1,071 hrs. 5 minutes - $7,658.25;

June, 2008 - 669 hrs. 44 minutes - $4,788.59;

July, 2008 - 465 hrs. 51 minutes - $3,330.83;

August, 2008 - 736 hrs. 23 minutes - $5,265.14;

September, 2008 - 436 hrs. 3 minutes - $3,117.76;

October, 2008 - 378 hrs. 20 minutes - $2,705.08;

November, 2008 - 425 hrs. 53 minutes - $3,045.07;

December, 2008 - 483 hrs. 7 minutes - $3,454.28;

and Social Security & Medicare @ 7.65% - $3,604.56.

Total Estimated Labor Costs @ Delaware Minimum Wage - $50,722.94

The quantity of emergency incident alarms for Indian River represents as 22% increase over Calendar Year 2007 and illustrates a 52% increase in emergency incident alarms since Calendar Year 2001.

The Indian River Volunteer Fire Company is very appreciative and thankful for the community support that it receives.