City report 11-15-09

The Yuma Police Department, Yuma Fire Department and Yuma Parks and Recreation Department respond each week to a variety of calls for service.

Here's a by-the-numbers look at recent activity in Yuma.

Yuma Police Department
 For the week of Oct. 26 - Nov. 1, Yuma Police Department responded to an average of 155 calls per day.  During this week YPD:
 • Responded to 1,091 calls for service
 • Documented 224 police reports
 • Responded to 42 non-injury accidents
 • Responded to 12 injury accidents

Significant incidents and community events include:
 • On Oct. 27 there was an armed robbery at the Chevron at 32nd Street and Avenue B
 • On Oct. 31 a drive-by shooting occurred in the 2200 block South Kennedy Loop. No injuries were reported
 • On Oct. 31 the YPD Explorer Post hosted their first Halloween Candy Screening Event

Parks and Recreation Department:
  For the week of Nov. 4-10 in the city of Yuma, Parks and Recreation Department:
 • The Graffiti Crew responded to and cleaned up 67 incidents of graffiti
 • 25 events were held at the Yuma Civic Center with 1,549 people attending those events
 • A total of 70 games were played at City of Yuma athletic facilities
 • The Yuma Art Center hosted two events with total attendance of 9,274
 • 129 ramadas, parks and fields were rented for special events
 • 10 programs were offered through the City's recreation program, with 1,874 members of the Yuma community participating in those programs

Yuma Fire Department
  For the week of Nov. 1-7, Yuma Fire Department responded to 209 emergency calls for service, which included:
 • 8 commercial assignments for various alarms
 • 1 hazardous materials assignment for a gasoline spill
 • 3 mutual aid assignments for a woman in labor just outside of the city limits, backfilling a Somerton station while they worked on a fire and assistance with a fire investigation in San Luis
 • 20 motor vehicle crashes with one involving a canal, one involving three vehicles, three involving a building, and two rollovers
 • 161 other medical emergencies (serious to minor), eight for difficulty breathing, 11 for chest pain, 14 fall victims, eight unconscious people, five seizure cases, three diabetic emergencies, four possible strokes, 15 patients with mental problems and miscellaneous other illnesses and injuries
 • 16 special duty, public assistance, and residential assignments that included a water heater making strange noises, a cat stuck in a vehicle's engine compartment, a small brush fire behind a residence, a lamp that caught on fire at a residence, a lawn mower that was smoking, food left in an oven that overheated but did not catch fire, a house filled with smoke from cooking, a controlled burn at the wetlands, a vehicle fire, two calls for unauthorized burning of yard debris and various alarms