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Lino Lakes, Minnesota – Fire Department Analysis Page 8 <br /> <br />Incident Type Trends <br />Figure 3 shows incident type trends over the last four years. In this analysis, we are only looking at <br />incidents that occurred in Lino Lakes, rather than the entire Centennial Fire District. Ideally, we would <br />have had more years of data to analyze. This would have given us a more concrete look at incident trends <br />(more than four data points are desirable for determining trends). However, this figure does provide some <br />level of insight with regard to emergency services demand and incident type trends. EMS incidents <br />account for the vast majority of incidents. In 2012, for unknown reasons, there was a relatively large <br />spike in EMS calls within Lino Lakes.2 In that same year, there was an associated fall in “other” calls. It <br />may be that some form of reporting issue or change in National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) <br />coding scheme caused this result. Over the last four years, fire incidents held steady. <br /> <br />Figure 3: Incident Type Trends by Year, 2010-2013 <br /> <br /> <br /> 2 This spike was not found when analyzing data for all of the Centennial Fire District. <br />14