The brave men and women of the St. Johns County Fire Rescue Department are busier than ever.
The agency responded to a staggering 64,932 calls in 2024 — up 1.9% from the prior year, the department said this week.
That equates to roughly 178 calls a day across the rapidly expanding county, according to numbers compiled by spokesman Chris Naff.
Back in the far sleepier St. Johns days of 2014, the department responded to 38,712 calls.
The 2024 figure represents a marked 67% increase over the last decade — a stretch when the county’s population popped from roughly 218,000 to more than 330,000 last year.
Here are the annual dispatch call figures from 2014 to 2024:
2014- 38,712
2015- 49,705
2016- 46,933
2017- 48,251
2018- 57,730
2019- 50,180
2020- 52,073
2021- 56,424
2022- 61,373
2023- 63,720
2024- 64,932
The new year got off to a blistering start for the department, with fire crews responding to four house fires across St. Johns on the first day of 2025 alone.
