Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURESwhen considering capital facilities housing fire units and personnel; however, fire stations themselves are notincluded in the LOS calculation. Although personnel is an integral component to the operation of any fire district,personnel is not considered a capital facility item under the requirements of the GMA.In comparison to the Bremerton Fire Department’s LOS, the County’s adopted LOS addresses fire units, notresponse time. However, SKFR does monitor its service levels in terms of response times because the state statuteChapter 52.33 RCW requires substantially career fire districts to adopt and annually report response timeobjectives. SKFR has adopted a number of detailed response metrics. Regarding turnout time, the district has agoal of ninety seconds (90) or less 90 percent of the time. In 2010 and 2011, the district did not meet this standardwith an actual performance of 2:30 minutes in 2010 and 2:17 minutes in 2011. The District has a number of traveltime standards to urban, suburban, and rural areas for both fire units and EMS units. These travel times range forfire units from 5:00 to 10:50 depending on the urban, suburban, or rural nature of the call. In 2010, theDepartment met its suburban and rural travel times for fire units but not its urban travel times. In 2011, theDepartment met its suburban travel time but not its urban and rural travel times. The Department’s travel timesfor EMS services ranged from 6:20 to 11:15 minutes in 2010 depending on the urban, suburban, or rural nature ofthe call and likewise met its suburban and rural goals and came very close to its urban goals (missing by 2 seconds)in 2010 (SKFR 2011). In 2011, the EMS response improved to meet all urban, suburban, and rural standards,showing a range of actual response times of 6.50, 8.48, and to 13.57 minutes, all within the urban, suburban, andrural goals respectively (SKFR 2012). The County will be working with the SKFR and other districts to update LOSstandards for its 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update.Table 3.12-2 Current SKFR LOS Requirements shows the adopted LOS for SKFR in fire units per 1,000 populationand whether or not the district is currently meeting the County’s adopted standard in the CFP. Determination of aLOS using the fire unit’s per capita method is calculated by dividing the number of fire units operated in a districtby the district's population. Multiplying the established LOS by future population projections is a proven methodfor reasonably predicting growth-related fire and emergency service capital facilities requirements.Table 3.12-2Current SKFR LOS RequirementsSOUTH KITSAP FIRE AND RESCUEOrchard)Source: SKFR, 2012; Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan Capital Facilities Element, 2012; Washington State Office ofFinancial Management, 2012; and BERK, 2013SKFR has a LOS of 0.36 fire units per 1,000 population. It is currently exceeding this standard by more than tenunits.Gorst UGATime PeriodDistrict ServiceArea PopulationLOS = 0.36 FIRE UNITS PER 1,000 POPULATIONFire Units Neededto Meet LOSstandardFire UnitsAvailableNet Reserve or(Deficiency)2010 72,329 26.0 36.0 10.0Fire protection and EMS within the Gorst UGA are provided by SKFR. This is a regional service, and is describedabove for the Gorst Creek watershed. SKFR maintains one fire station that serves this area just outside of the GorstUGA area, located at 4058 W. State Highway 3, just west of the SR-3/SR-16 interchange. This station is mannedfull-time by career firefighting staff.Figure 3.12-2 Gorst Creek Watershed: Fire Station Map for the Gorst Creek Watershed and Gorst UGA shows thecurrent locations of the South Kitsap Fire Department and Bremerton Fire Department’s fire stations that serve theWatershed and Gorst Creek UGA areas.Draft | June 2013 3-180