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Randolph Center Fire Department recieves an average of about 1.3 calls per week and around 17 work hours per call. These are just averages, and reality varies widely depending on the type of call. A call to a home for a medical assist may take three firefighters one hour. A large structure fire may occupy the entire company for a day. Likewise, a single day may see three calls, and then the company may be quiet for a week or more. Whatever the call volume, firefighters remain on call 24/7/365.

The most common types of calls include motor vehicle accidents (including victim extrication), chimney fires, vehicle fires, structure fires, securing an LZ for the DHART medical helicopter, wildland fires, WRVA ambulance assist, carbon monoxide calls, AED-CPR, Haz-Mat response, electrical wires down, false alarms, mutual aid calls, and miscellaneous public assistance calls. When people don't know who to call, they call the fire department.