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CITY OF SAGINAW
GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES
2018-2019

FIRE

GOAL: To perform fire prevention, fire suppression, rescue, emergency medical services, hazardous materials
mitigation, disaster planning coordination, and emergency management. We will accomplish this by providing a team of
efficient, professional, and dedicated personnel who will be prepared by utilizing the most appropriate equipment,
resources, and training.
City FY 2017-2018 FY 2017-2018 FY 2018-2019
Strategy Department Goal Department Achievement Department Goal
We successfully saved 85.26% of
Save >90% of property values involved Save >90% of property values involved
in a fire incident. Raise our current ratio property values invlolved in a fire. We in a fire incident. Raise our current ratio
have a current ratio of 1.2 FF's per 1,000
of 1.2 shift duty firefighters per 1000 to of 1.08 shift duty firefighters per 1000 to
Maintain 1.35. Lower our average emergency residents. We had an average 1.5. Lower our average emergency
service and emergency response time of 4:45 and
staffing levels response time to our goal of 4 minutes, completed 5,082 hours of training. We response time to our goal of 4 minutes,
continue to train firefighters in latest placed a new fire engine in service and continue to train firefighters in latest
methods, and provide and maintain methods, and provide and maintain
necessary equipment. began integration of a new public safety necessary equipment.
radio system.
Seek alternate We received a total of $58,000 in grant
sources of funding. We renewed a County wide
funding and Annually seek alternative sources of mutual aid fire and EMS agreement and Annually seek alternative sources of
funding to maintain and/or increase
funding to maintain and/or increase
use interlocal our membership in the County wide fire
agreements to service capabilities and utilize interlocal and arson investigation association. We service capabilities and utilize interlocal
increase levels agreements to increase service with continue to exercise and maintain agreements to increase service with
minimal financial impact.
minimal financial impact.
of service or existing aid agreements with our
cost savings neighboring entities.
LONG TERM OBJECTIVES
Provide timely life and fire safety inspections of new businesses and provide annual fire inspections of existing
businesses to assist in preventing fires, saving lives, eliminating injuries and maintain our ISO/PPC 2 rating.
Continue to train personnel in the proven newest and safest methods to perform duties and continue to diligently
prepare for the low frequency high risk events we are tasked with mitigating.
Continue to seek alternate sources of funding through the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Department of
Health, and Tarrant County Emergency Services District and any other available opportunity.
Increase our shift duty minimum staffing level of seven personnel to eight.
Upgrade one existing outdoor warning siren.
Continue having Opticom (signal pre-emption) systems installed in traffic lights throughout the City.
Continue to replace our fire apparatus and vehicles at intervals to ensure the safe and effective delivery of our
emergency services at a high level.
Upgrade FD radio communications system by joining the City of Fort Worth Radio System as a subscriber.

Replace all department Self Contained Breathing Apparatus or SCBA's.
Replace all department 12 Lead EKG Heart Monitors/Defibrillators.

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Mutual/Automatic Aid Given Mutual/Automatic Aid Received
Mutual/Automatic Aid Given
Mutual-Aid - agreements between agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions that provide a mechanism to quickly obtain emergency assistance in the form of
personnel, equipment, and other associated items and services. This is usually accomplished through contractual agreement. The primary objective is to
facilitate rapid, short-term deployment of emergency support prior to, during, and after an incident. Typically implemented by formal request on an incident by
incident basis.
Automatic-Aid - emergency assistance between agencies, organizations and jurisdictions that is pre-arranged and dispatched automatically by contractual
agreement. Differs from mutual-aid which is typically implemented by a formal request. Automatic-aid is as the name implies, it happens automatically without
request. Automatic-aid is primarily pre-arranged and utilized for the initial alarm assignment on structure fires and is in place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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