Medical call volumes at the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District remained high in 2001.
The fire department responded to 1,652 calls, about 60 less than 2000 but still nearly 200 more than the year before. The department had been running between 1,400 and 1,500 calls in the last half of the 1990s.
Fire calls were up slightly to 256 in 2001.
The fire department had included a new paramedic in its 2001-02 budget to…