HomeMy WebLinkAboutFire Station presentationInvesting for our Community
Protection
2014
Presentation Topics
Essential Services
How we don’t live by our own
standards
Our Health & Safety Issues
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Our Needs
We protect the fundamental needs to life
•Life
•Incident Stabilization
•Property Conservation
•Minimize Economic Impact
Premise 1:
Essential Services
Premise 1 cont.
Scope of Service
•Fire suppression
•Emergency medical services
•Hazardous materials / Terrorist acts
mitigation
•Fire prevention and education
•Fire & arson investigation
•Transportation accidents
•Severe weather events
•Emergency Management
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
Premise 1 cont.
Motorcycle accident –
patient transported via
Careflite
Local and National Standards
•Temporary for 10 years
•The Town’s ordinance limits temporary facilities to 90 days; was changed to exclude
fire station
•Current location does not meet Westlake’s development standards
•Lacks sustainable capacity
•Rolling stock
•Inadequate staffing accommodations
•Parking conditions
•No outside room to train
Premise 2:
Not Meeting Our Own Standards
•Inadequate cleaning facilities (laundry, decon, bunker gear)
•No training room
•No meeting room
•No EOC
Premise 2 cont.
Lieutenant’s Office
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
Premise 3: Health & Safety
Emergency Resource Deployment
•Inability to improve response times
•Strategic location of Fire Stations
•To provide the best possible response times
•Eastern half over 70% of call volume
•Corporate campuses require most calls for service
•Closing of Ottinger Road crossover
•Improve ISO rating (4 to 1)
•Residential: 11%
•Commercial: 13%
•Decrease insurance premiums
•Increasing call volume
Premise 4: Providing Quality Services
Vehicle erupts into flames
after colliding into
18-wheeler (no injuries)
What message are we sending?
•Current Residents
•Current Businesses
•Potential residents
•Potential businesses
•Recruiting & Retention
•Do we hold ourselves to the same high standards that we hold everyone
else to?
•Do we want quality staffing, facilities, and equipment?
•Do we want to send the message that we are a quality emergency
response organization?
Premise 5: Image
Neighboring Fire Stations
Investing in insurance is a reactive
tactic; investing in emergency
services is a proactive tactic.
Insurance benefits you after the
crisis; emergency services benefits
you before, during, and after the
crisis.
Modern fire station meeting standards
Strategically located
Ample capacity
Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Something the stakeholders are proud of
Our Needs