Annual Emergency Response Totals - 2024

In 2024 Cambridge fire companies responded to 16,182 Emergency Incidents which generated 36,330 responses by individual fire companies.

These responses include 54 building fires, 1000 inside fires, 1148 fires of all categories, 7387 emergency medical calls, 237 elevator rescues, 77 incidents of carbon monoxide contamination, & much more.

For the list of the individual neighborhood fire company emergency responses, go to: Fire Statistics.

Major fires during the year included an early morning 3-alarm fire in January in North Cambridge, which resulted in the death of one resident; a 2-alarm fire in April in a multi-residence on Broadway; a 2-alarm fire in October at a 6-story residential building on Concord Turnpike; and a 2 alarm fire in December on Kirkland St, where one trapped person and a cat were rescued by firefighters via aerial ladder.

Cambridge fire companies responded outside the city to assist our mutal aid communites 196 times in 2024.

Our "Class 1" Cambridge Fire Department has been faithfully protecting our city since 1832.