Master Plan Nashua Fire Rescue, NH
When demand for service is analyzed by the day of the week, Fridays and Saturdays stand out as the days of
greatest demand while Sundays have the least amount of demand. Monday through Thursdays are relatively
constant with nearly equal levels of demand.
Finally, in Figure 70, the demand by hour of the day is shown.
Figure 70. Service Demand by the Hour of the Day, 2017-2019
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While Nashua’s data generally presents the typical pattern observed in fire departments with demand
beginning to rise in the early morning hours, peak around the middle of the day, and decrease in the evening
hours, a significant spike in demand is present from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. This spike is due to how the fire
department issues burn permits. Although burn permits are currently issued online, in the past fire crews
would travel to the location requesting a burn permit and issue it in person at 3 pm each day. These burn
permits requests would receive a NFIRS number, which is why they appear within this figure. Today this is no
longer the practice.
Of note is that while demand is lower in the early morning hours, fatal residential fires occur most frequently
late at night or in the early morning. From 2014 to 2016, fatal residential fires were highest between 1:00 a.m.
to 2:00 a.m. The 8-hour peak period (11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.) accounted for 48% of fatal residential fires.
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