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Yup, yet the union will still wail and bawl that salaries and benefits aren't high enough and fight any effort to bring down costs to the taxpayer. It's a good town to work in, in part, due to the limited number of 3+ floor buildings and (comparably) financially and behaviorally stable population, which affords time for training that firefighters wouldn't have time for if they had more calls. I wonder how many of them would last a year in Providence, New Bedford, or NYC?

Consider that the WPD receives about one call for service for every resident of the city annually, for everything from nuisance calls to homicides; the WFD gets called when there's a fire, vehicle accident, or medical emergency, for the most part (in all fairness, EMS/ALS calls and stats should be broken out from the fire department calls). I salute the police and firefighters, but let's not pat ourselves on the back with puff pieces like this and not tell the rest of the story.