{"id":88643,"date":"2025-12-15T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:20:21","slug":"more-calls-more-staffing-as-houston-county-fire-adapts-to-increased-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88643\/","title":{"rendered":"More calls, more staffing as Houston County Fire adapts to increased demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c82302bd-30a9-4ea1-bd94-9b46fdc7c616_750x422-aTaXCG-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-608251\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Houston County\u2019s boomtown growth is keeping first responders on their toes. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and EMA crews say calls are slowly climbing each year as the county\u2019s population and development continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s busier than ever,\u201d said Lt. Kendell Marzoll.<\/p>\n<p>Marzoll has been with Houston County Fire and EMA for 16 years. He says since he started in 2009, the calls have seen a drastic increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom then to now I mean we probably ran 2,000 calls, to now running over 5,000 calls a year,\u201d Marzoll said.<\/p>\n<p>The department is on track to run 5,300 calls this year. Marzoll says he\u2019s run 1,500 of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re heavily populated, you\u2019re gonna run more calls,\u201d Marzoll said.<\/p>\n<p>He says they couldn\u2019t handle that number of calls without the increase in staff.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief and EMA Director Chris Stoner says they are finishing training of nine new firefighters. That will let them staff all eight fire stations around the clock.<\/p>\n<p>WMAZ-TV CBS 13 Macon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Houston County\u2019s boomtown growth is keeping first responders on their toes. Fire and EMA crews say calls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16616,56,58,57,42065],"class_list":["post-88643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-georgia","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-southeast-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}