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Emergency Service in Florida

Emergency Service in Florida. Presented by Chief Thomas G. Weber, CFO, EFO, MPA, MIFireE First Vice-President, FFCA. Emergency Service. There are approximately 617 paid, volunteer and combination fire departments providing emergency services in Florida Provided from 2887 Stations

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Emergency Service in Florida

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  1. Emergency Service in Florida Presented by Chief Thomas G. Weber, CFO, EFO, MPA, MIFireE First Vice-President, FFCA

  2. Emergency Service • There are approximately 617 paid, volunteer and combination fire departments providing emergency services in Florida • Provided from 2887 Stations • Provided by over 44,000 firefighters • Responded to 2,125,902 calls for assistance in 2008

  3. Today’s Emergency Service Professional • Emergency Control Specialists • Health Care Provider • Educator • Problem Solver • Emergency Manager • College Educated • Accredited

  4. Today’s Emergency Service Professional Emergency Service Accreditation is conferred by the Center for Public Safety Excellence. There are: • 67 Accredited Chief Fire Officers • 14 Accredited Emergency Service Departments • 155? Credentialed Executive Fire Officers

  5. What is Emergency Service in Florida? • Fire Prevention • Goal: “The desire to make Florida the safest State in which to live, work and play. • Public Education • Inspections • Code Enforcement • Plans Review

  6. What is Emergency Service in Florida? • Fire Suppression • 58,040 fires with $ 489,387,580 real dollar loss • Protect over $ 1.6 Trillion dollars of property • Save rate of 90% statewide in 2008? • 176 Fatalities caused by Fire in 2008 • More residents die in fires then all natural disasters combined in the worst year

  7. What is Emergency Service in Florida? • Emergency Medical Service - 1,518,084 calls for assistance • Paramedics • Emergency Medical Technicians • First Responders • Primary patient transportation service in the State • Preventative Care Providers

  8. What is Emergency Service in Florida? • Emergency Management • Primary Response agency for • ESF 4 Firefighting • ESF 9 Search and Rescue • ESF 10 Hazardous Materials • ESF 8 Medical • Local Level Emergency Managers • Incident Management Team Members • RDSTF Members • NIMS / Incident Command Educators

  9. What is Emergency Service in Florida? • Technical Rescue - 349,382 responses • Hazardous Materials • Search and Rescue • Confined Space Rescue • Water Rescue • Elevated Rescue • Extrication Specialists

  10. Emergency Service Impact 2008 • Each day we protect: • 15 million residents • 1 million visitors ? • 1.6 Trillion dollars of property • Quality of Life • Save Rate ? • Still 179 Lives were lost to fire in 2008

  11. What it takes to Respond and be Successful • Career Response times & Adequate Staffing • 4 minute response to fires and medical emergencies with a crew of 4 • 8 minute response to fires by a minimum team of 15-17 firefighters and apparatus

  12. What it takes to Respond and be Successful

  13. Why Rapid Response • NFPA flame promulgation chart

  14. STAFF RESOURCES NEEDED MODERATE RISK STRUCTURE FIRE Attack line Back-up line Safety Team Search/Rescue Exposure line Ventilation Water Supply Pump Operator Incident Command Why Four Personnel?

  15. Solution to Loss of Life and Property • Fire Sprinkler Systems in all new Buildings • 80% of fire fatalities occur in homes • 62% of firefighter deaths occur in residential structures • Survival time in residential structures has fallen from 17 to 3 minutes

  16. Solution to Loss of Life and Property • Fire Sprinkler Systems in all new Buildings • Firefighter on-duty at every building 24/7 • 90% of fires contained by single sprinkler head • 80% chance of surviving a fire in a sprinklered building • Aids Fire Departments keep up with growth

  17. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Developed after Hurricane Andrew • Created State-wide Mutual Coverage for • Wildfires • Hurricanes • Tornados • Flooding • Mass Evacuations

  18. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Codified in State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) • Deploys resources for • ESF 4 Firefighting • ESF 9 Search and Rescue • ESF 10 Hazardous Materials • ESF 8 Medical

  19. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP)

  20. State Emergency Response PlanActivation Local resources exhausted SERP Chair requests resources thru Regional/County Coordinators CEM requests resources thru SEOC Local resources deployed to emergency SFM Contacts SERP Chair

  21. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Deployment Examples • Wildfires May 5-10, 2007 (449 Personnel 110 Apparatus) • 13 Engine Strike Teams • 10 Task Forces • 1 Brush Strike Team • 11 Single Resources

  22. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Deployment Examples Hurricane??

  23. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Plan Comparison Florida to California Florida Part Time Coordinator Local Government provides Personnel Equipment Cover initial cost Annual Funding DOF $22 million Apparatus - not funded Reimbursement if eligible California State Office of Emergency Services Full time staff State Provides funding for Personnel Equipment Annual Funding OES $168 million Apparatus $48 million Reimbursement if eligible

  24. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Plan has been selected as one of four anchor states to assist with Intrastate Mutual Aid Systems of the IAFC • We provide Technical Advisors nation-wide to assist states and tribal nations develop plans • Recognized as mature proven plan

  25. State Emergency Response Plan(SERP) • Adversely impacted by cuts and lack of funding • Local emergency services can no longer cover costs for deployment • Less apparatus and personnel available to respond • Less funds available to cover what costs reimbursement does not cover

  26. Condition of Today’s Emergency Service Providers • In 2009 • 49% of Departments cut their budgets • 73 % will be cutting budgets for 2010 • 37% reduced capital budgets • 46% had hiring restrictions • 33% eliminated positions • 20% laid off active firefighters

  27. Emergency Service (ES) Economic Impact • Emergency Service support • 29,000 jobs with $ 1.5 billion in earnings • Support another 1.07 jobs across other industries • $1 in paid wages support $.65 in wages for other workers • Operating budgets support $226.2 million dollars in direct and indirect tax revenues

  28. Future of Emergency Services • Continued reductions will • Reduce local ability to respond • Reduce SERP ability to respond • Increase unemployment • Negatively impact State economy through multiple sectors and industries

  29. Future of Emergency Services • Essential to Florida’s Safety is • Continued funding for Emergency Services • No additional reductions to emergency service funding sources • Support for new funding opportunities • Fire Sprinkler Systems in all new construction of any type building throughout the state

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