CAPE DISPATCHFire & EMS Coverage
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Fire & EMS coverage

What the county's fire and EMS radio shows about workload: calls by town and hour, and which units are running the most. Counts only; no names, addresses or live positions.

Units

Home town = where a unit is heard most. "Other towns" is usually mutual aid, but some units serve several towns by design.

Source: Cape Dispatch's scanner transcripts of Cape May County fire/EMS dispatch (published calls only, sensitive calls excluded). Units are only counted when the dispatcher says them and the transcript catches it, so treat unit numbers as a floor. Summer population is several times the census count, so per-resident rates run high in beach towns in season.