Acquired Cordelia Fire District Contract/Deployed Seventh Company

Council Goal: Quality of Life-Safety

Fire acquired the temporary fee-per-call service contract with the Cordelia Fire Protection District (CFPD) resulting in an estimated $173k of additional revenue. The short-term contract is limited to 9-1-1/emergency calls for service including fire apparatus response and chief officer coverage. It also provides a path for a long-term contract, projected to add $700k annually.

Fire also received a $3.3M federal grant to hire five additional full-time Firefighter/Paramedics. This grant allowed the department to meet the increased minimum staffing required to deploy a seventh company in June. The seventh company is temporarily housed in Station 35 while Station 36 is being designed and built near Business Center Drive in Green Valley. The seventh company is a valuable addition to an outlier district that previously experienced the slowest response times.

 Employed Aggressive Prevention Strategy

Council Goal: Quality of Life-Safety

A milder fire season allowed the Fire Prevention Bureau to take a more aggressive approach towards defensible space/vegetation management standards. As a result, Fire Prevention:

• Completed 100% of mandated fire inspections
• Abated 1,300 acres
• Completed over 1600 Fire & Life Safety Inspections
• Added a fourth Fire Inspector
• Provided fire code enforcement services to better serve the community

Fire Prevention will continue to build on this strategy as staffing and funding allows.

 Updated Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) 

Council Goal: Organizational Excellence 

Fire updated the 2005 emergency plan which is critical to optimal response and recovery operations during an emergency or disaster that falls outside the realm of routine responsibility. As a public document, the emergency plan clearly states objectives while acknowledging assumptions and capabilities. The emergency plan also:

• Assigns responsibility to organizations and individuals to carry out specific actions that exceed the capability or routine responsibility of the organization,
• Identifies personnel, equipment, facilities, supplies, and other resources that can be utilized during response and recovery operations,
• Sets forth lines of authority, organizational relationships, and
• Demonstrates how actions will be coordinated while describing how the community will be protected during an emergency or disaster.

The updated plan was adopted in March 2022 and reflects FEMA guidelines that have been modified within the last 15 years. With this update, the City is now National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) compliant.

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