Extreme weather may have resulted in the closure of Ocean Boulevard along the Esquimalt Lagoon in recent days, but it was not the reason the Colwood Fire Department fielded so many calls.

Crews responded to a large number of incidents which ranged in severity, including seven on Dec. 7 alone.

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From Dec. 5 to 12, Colwood crews responded to 16 emergency calls, not including such non-emergency calls as public assists they also attended through the week.

Smith has looked at the number of calls the department has responded to over the course of the year and was a little surprised to see the 2015 numbers are very similar to those in 2014.

As of late last week, the department had responded to roughly 430 emergency calls. Those numbers have been fairly consistent over the past five years.

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katie@goldstreamgazette.com