1. Fire Station Recap Strategic Theme: Exemplary Service & Governance
Investing in the Safety of the Community
May 2016

2. Presentation Topics recap
Essential Services
Congruency
Health & Safety Issues
Providing Quality Services
Image
Needs of the Community

3. Premise 1: Essential Services
When someone is having the worst day of their life, we respond to solve the crises or at least keep it from getting worse.
Strategic Priorities:
Life Safety
Incident Stabilization
Property Conservation
Environmental Conservation
Minimize Economic Impact

4. Premise 1 cont. Scope of Service Fire suppression
Emergency medical services
Hazardous materials / Terrorist acts mitigation
Risk Reduction / Risk Awareness
Code enforcement
Fire & arson investigation
Transportation accidents
Severe weather events
Emergency Management
Public Education

5. Premise 1 cont. Our stakeholders include:
residents, businesses, visitors, & travelers
Protecting:
Over 1,000 residents and growing
Billion dollars in appraisal values (commercial & residential)
Invaluable personal property
Day-time population over 14,000 and growing
50,000 plus vehicles travel through Westlake daily

6. Premise 2: Congruency - Holding ourselves accountable to the same high-level building standards imposed on everyone else.
Local and National Standards
Temporary for 12 years
The Town’s ordinance limits temporary facilities to 90 days; was changed to exclude fire station
Showing the same level of commitment to development standards
Lacks sustainable capacity
Rolling stock
Inadequate staffing accommodations
Parking conditions
No EOC

7. Sustainable Facility Capacity

8. Inadequate Office space

9. Inadequate laundry facilities
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

10. Inadequate Bunker Gear Cleaning Facility
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

11. No SCBA Fill Station Room
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

12. Inadequate work-shop space
Westlake’s
Industry Standard

13. No storage space

14. Existing storage space

15. No Medical Treatment Room
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

16. No Staff Training – EOC – Meeting – Community Room
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

17. Training Room vs. Training Facility

18. No Back-up Generator to run essential facility
Industry Standard

19. No hose rack/tower or space for one for washing and drying hose
Industry Standard

20. Premise 3: Health & Safety
Life Safety Issues
Exposure to diesel exhaust
Arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, and nickel
Exhaust (soot) is absorbed into internal environment
No exhaust removal system
Inability to separate PPE from apparatus room
Severe weather protection
Rats, mice, snakes, & varmints
Diesel exhaust has been linked to cancer
Tornado threats personnel are expected to monitor the bad weather but must vacate the premises for their own protection
The equipment is not protected

21. No Exhaust Removal System
Westlake’s
Industry Standard

22. Inadequate PPE storage
Industry Standard
Westlake’s

23. No Decon Room
Westlake’s
Industry Standard

24. Premise 4: Providing Quality Services
Emergency Resource Deployment
Inability to improve response times
Strategic location of Fire Stations
To provide the best possible response times
Eastern half most developed and drives responses
Corporate campuses delayed response challenges
Closing of Ottinger Road crossover
Improve ISO rating (4 to 1)
decrease insurance premiums
Increasing call volume as development continues

25. Response Time Overview
Average Response Time: 6:13
No longer used as performance measure
NFPA recommends: 4 minutes or less 90% of the time.
4 minutes or less: 35.2%
5 minutes or less: 48.1%
6 minutes or less: 65.6%

26. 2015 Comprehensive Plan indicating the need for 2 fire stations

27. BSC Perspective: People, Facilities & Technology

28. Premise 5: Image What message are we sending? Current Residents
Current Businesses
Potential residents
Potential businesses
Recruiting & Retention
Quality and Confidence
It will show that the Town has the same commitment to high Economic Development Standards that are imposed on everyone else.

29. Quality and Confidence - What message are we sending?

30. Investing in insurance is a reactive tactic
Investing in insurance is a reactive tactic. Investing in emergency services is a proactive strategy. Insurance benefits you after the crisis. Emergency services benefits you before, during, and after the crisis.

31. Conclusion: Meeting the needs of the community
Modern fire station to industry standards Strategically located – improved response times Sustaining Facility Capacity Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Healthy and Safe Facility

32. Questions?