2008 Fire Master Plan - City of St. Catharines

FIRERESCUE8.1 In f r a s tru c t u r eThe Master Fire Plan Committee through Council hired a Consultant (Dillon) to conduct Fire Station Location StudyThe Fire Association through the IAFF also conducted a station location study and the results are as follows:• The results indicate that a six (6) station configuration is necessary in order to meetall service standards;• In particular the five (5) station configurations falls short under the first responseperformance measures;• In most cases areas well covered by existing stations would become deficient underfive station configurations;• The depth of response standards have more generous travel time thresholds thanfirst response;8.2 Bu i ld i n g a n d Facilities-Mu n i c i pa lSt Catharines operates its Fire Services from 6 Fire stations. The table below will demonstrate the yearthe buildings were built, the number of bays including the number of vehicles that respond and their manning.STATION YEAR BUILT # BAYS FRONT LINE VEHICLES MANNING REMARKS1 1948 4 3 8 1 CAR/2 PUMPS2 1958 2 1 3 1 PUMP3 1958 3 1 3 1 PUMP4 1900’s 2 1 3 1 PUMP5 2000 2 2 5 1 PUMP/1AERIAL6 1977 2 2 5 1 PUMP/1 AERIALThe status of our Fire Stations needs to be addressed in order to ensure that they appropriately satisfy the needs of theFire Service. As one can clearly see 4 of the 6 Fire stations are at least 50 years old with one station close to a hundredyears old. The ongoing cost on a yearly basis to maintain and upkeep these very old and inefficient buildings aresubstantial.The following is an overview of what is required to be done for each Fire Station:1) Fire Station 1• Higher bays for fire equipment• Expansion of our Communication Center• Expansion of our Emergency Operation Center• Centralizing operations and returning Fire Preventionto be closer with Administration2) Fire Station 2• Age of the facility and living conditions• Size of vehicle bays including doors required to accommodate new vehicles• Requirements for female washrooms• Office space for area Fire InspectorMASTER FIRE PLAN 2008 57