Responding to five dozen more calls in 2014 than the previous year, it was a busy fire year for the Escalon Consolidated Fire Protection District. Not all the dire predictions of a huge fire season this past summer came to fruition – thankfully so, according to Fire Chief Rick Mello – but the department still responded to 972 calls during the calendar year. The busiest month was August, with 100 total calls and the slowest was November, with 63 calls.