Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue's 2024 community report is out, and it shows that last year's fire season was pretty light.
Fire Chief Charles Moore says that even though their response calls slightly increased by 1%, most of those calls were for medical services and not fires, which actually went down.
He says last year they responded to 49 structure fires and 49 wildfires compared to 2021 which had triple that amount.
In the report he says one of the reasons why there have been such little number of fires was due to the record-setting winter of 2022-2023, but also due to the public.
"I would give credit to our Fire Prevention Bureau, and I would also give credit mostly to the citizens who are obviously being more careful with fire, not only in their homes, but in the back country," Moore said.
The report states that our wildfire season was slow enough that they were able to support 170 fire responses nationwide.
Chief Moore says since we received a heavy amount of snowpack these past couple of months, they're hoping it will delay the start of this fire season.
One of Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest's Fire Management Officers, Joe Powell, tell us that as long as the snowpack in the higher elevations continues to carry through June or July, that would reduce chances of wildfires.
"That kind of reduces the ability for fire to exist in the higher elevations and typically fires in higher elevations typically to be longer duration," said Powell.
To see the full 2024 Community Report click here.
