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CITY OF SAGINAW
GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES
2019-2020

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 2018-2019 FY 2018-2019 FY 2019-2020
Strategy Department Goal Department Achievement Department Goal
We successfully saved 97.15% of
property values involved in a fire
Save >90% of property values involved incident. We increased our current ratio Save >90% of property values involved
in a fire incident. Raise our current ratio of 1.12 shift duty firefighters per 1000 in a fire incident. Raise our current ratio
of 1.08 shift duty firefighters per 1000 to residents to 1.16. We had an average of 1.15 shift duty firefighters per 1000 to
1.5. Lower our average emergency emergency response time 4:51 minutes 1.5. Lower our average emergency
response time to our goal of 4 minutes, response time to our goal of 4 minutes,
Maintain a continue to train firefighters in latest and completed 4296 hours of training. continue to train firefighters in latest
We competed migration to a new public
financially methods, and provide and maintain safety radio system, replaced our SCBA methods, and provide and maintain
sound City necessary equipment. equipment and placed a new light rescue necessary equipment.
providing vehicle in service.
superior
services
Annually seek alternative sources of We received at total of $31,500 in grant Annually seek alternative sources of
funding to maintain and/or increase funding. We successfully exercised and funding to maintain and/or increase
service capabilities and utilize interlocal maintained the numerous interlocal service capabilities and utilize interlocal
agreements to increase service with agreements with local, regional and state agreements to increase service with
minimal financial impact. wide partner agencies. minimal financial impact.

LONG TERM OBJECTIVES
Relocate fire station one or rebuild on current site to address reoccuring flooding problem and existing mold issue,
bringing the facility to current standards and appropriate size to meet current and future needs.

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 two older existing outdoor warning sirens to newer and better performing technology and coverage.
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.
Replace all department 12 Lead EKG Heart Monitors/Defibrillators.
Add the postion of Emergency Management Coordinator/FD Admin Support.

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Mutual/Automatic Aid Received
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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