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Fire Department/City of El Cajon Have Contracted Weed Abatement Inspections and Code Enforcement with an Outside Company, Fire Prevention Services (FPS) Fire Department FY 2015-16 Heartland Fire & Rescue Fire Chief Heartland Fire & Rescue Management Staff Fire Station 6 Fire Station 7 Fire Station 8 Fire Station 9 Engine Engine Engine Engine Company Company Company Company Fire Captain (3) Fire Captain (3) Fire Captain (3) Fire Captain (3) Fire Engineer (3) Fire Engineer (3) Fire Engineer (3) Fire Engineer (3) Firefighter/PM (3) Firefighter/PM (3) Firefighter/PM (3) Firefighter/PM (3) Truck Company Fire Captain (3) Fire Engineer (3) Firefighter or FF/ PM (3) Paramedic Unit Paramedic Unit Paramedic Unit Firefighter/PM (6) Firefighter/PM (6) Firefighter/PM (6) EMT Program M-1 M-2 City of El Cajon Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 Annual Budget ACTIVITY: FIRE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY NO: 140000-141000-145000- 250000-250100 Mission Statement: The El Cajon Fire Department protects life, property and natural resources through professional response. The mission of Heartland Fire & Rescue is to provide safe communities through exceptional, professional service. Description: The El Cajon Fire Department is comprised of five divisions: The Heartland Fire & Rescue Division provides shared management and administrative staffing through a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) between the Cities of El Cajon, La Mesa and Lemon Grove. Through the JPA, a total of 18 full-time and four part-time staff members are shared through a cost allocation formula. This shared management team is known as Heartland Fire & Rescue. The Administration Division administers the Fire Department services and functions that are specific to the City of El Cajon, as well as the shared functions of the Joint Powers Agreement with the cities of La Mesa and Lemon Grove. This division also assists in the coordination of the Fire Safety Public Education Programs, which include station tours, school visitations, annual fire safety expo, community preparedness programs, speaking engagements, demonstrations, community activities, juvenile fire-setter intervention and community emergency response team (CERT) training. The Suppression Division is focused on preservation of life, property and natural resources. This Division operates four Advanced Life Support (ALS) Paramedic Assessment Engine Companies, one ALS Paramedic Assessment Truck/Rescue, one Type 3 Wildland Firefighting engine Brush/Rescue apparatus and three Reserve Engines. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division provides pre-hospital emergency medical response to the community. This includes the Paramedic Program and the Emergency Medical Technician Division. Firefighter/Paramedics staff three 24-hour Advanced Life Support ambulances, four paramedic assessment fire engines, one paramedic assessment truck and one 8 hour per day Basic Life Support ambulance on three divisions. Prior Fiscal Year Highlights: Heartland Fire & Rescue JPA Staffing and Administration: Throughout FY2014-15, our Department continued to strive to improve many of our administrative processes and provide quality service to our citizens. We continue to automate processes within our records management system to analyze our calls for service and to ensure the accuracy of the data contained in our records. The Administration Division has worked with the City Finance Department to prepare a comprehensive cost report associated with the Ground Emergency Medical Transport (GEMT) reimbursement program. Public education is a primary focus within the Administration and JPA divisions. The El Cajon Annual Open House & Fire Expo drew over four thousand attendees in 2014. They came to visit our Fire Department Headquarters and enjoy over fifty interactive workstations provided by various City Departments and a variety of other safety and health organizations, with an emphasis on fire safety. In addition, for the past five years the fire expo has distributed over 2,250 free bicycle safety helmets to area youth. The Heartland Fire & Rescue JPA staff also manages all facilities, apparatus and equipment within the three cities of the JPA of El Cajon, La Mesa and Lemon Grove. Heartland Fire & Rescue maintains cooperative relationships with the community, City officials, City departments, and other government and county agencies. Training is coordinated across the three cities of the JPA and has created a workforce that is consistent in skills in emergency operations and have cross-trained all personnel on all fire apparatus and equipment of the three cities. Our agency’s method of group training, which is regularly conducted by intermixing members from all three cities, has helped to create a more cohesive emergency service organization M-3 City of El Cajon Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 Annual Budget ACTIVITY: FIRE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY NO: 140000-141000-145000- 250000-250100 amongst the JPA member-city Fire personnel. Much of the Heartland Fire & Rescue Training program and its training outlines have been made available via a training link on the Heartland Fire & Rescue website. This link has been accessed by fire agencies across the country and around the world. Fire Prevention and Emergency Preparedness: This Division is tasked with enforcement of laws and ordinances relating to fire safety and prevention, the education of the community in areas of fire safety and community health, and solutions in building construction through fire prevention practices. This Division also manages the pre-fire planning program using Geographical Information System (GIS) data within target hazard occupancies throughout the City. Priorities of this Division remain the annual maintenance inspections within the industrial park, pre-fire planning, weed abatement, public education, and fire investigation. In the cooperative agreement between the cities of El Cajon, La Mesa and Lemon Grove, an Emergency Preparedness Coordinator is shared through the Heartland Fire & Rescue Joint Powers Agreement. Heartland Fire & Rescue’s shared Emergency Preparedness Coordinator helped train more than 3,150 people in FY2014-15 on personal emergency preparedness, and also participated in disaster exercises with the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services, as well as received training in personal emergency preparedness and emergency planning. This participation was aimed at helping improve our city’s emergency plans through the testing of these plans and evaluating their effectiveness. The Emergency Disaster Response Plan was updated to address access and functional needs populations, as well as updated FEMA regulations following Hurricane Sandy. Procedurally, the plan is reviewed annually to ensure continued FEMA compliance. To ensure that all El Cajon City Staff will be ready to respond as emergency workers in the event of Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activation, seven EOC training sessions were conducted in El Cajon throughout the year for City Staff in their various roles as EOC workers. This type of continued training is held annually to ensure City Staff remains qualified in their disaster services role in accordance to the National Incident Management System (NIMS). In addition to the training, an EOC Staff Pocket Guide was developed as a quick reference guide for EOC staff functions. Heartland Fire & Rescue continues to use social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pulsepoint and Nixle) to ensure prompt and effective communications with the community. We also participated in the Citywide website redesign committee. Fire Suppression: The Fire Suppression Division’s activity level continues to increase. There were approximately 12,000 calls for service in the last calendar year, an increase of 5.2%. To meet a wider variety of calls for service, the City of El Cajon entered into a services agreement with the County of San Diego for the operation of a Type 3 Wildland Firefighting engine. The engine was purchased by the County and the Indian Gaming Community and will be staffed by El Cajon Firefighters. This Type 3 Engine will be housed at El Cajon’s Fire Station 8 on Madison Avenue. In addition, through State Homeland Security Grant funding, the department purchased and is preparing to install a new breathing air compressor at Fire Station 6. Other Suppression purchases were for new handheld radios, which were deployed during FY2014-15, replacing obsolete equipment. In addition, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBAs) were purchased using grant funding. These SCBAs have a higher degree of compatibility with other JPA agencies, as well as neighboring jurisdictions. The planning is well underway and work is scheduled to begin in FY2015-16. These same funds will be used for diesel exhaust recovery systems in Stations 8 and 9. An employee exchange program across the JPA allows for members of the three cities to work overtime hours as needed in any of the three cities to fill for scheduled and non-scheduled vacancies. This program ensures that all staffing needs are met and that qualified, well-trained individuals are always available to fill these vacancies. Emergency Medical Services (EMS): The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division provides pre-hospital Advanced Life Support emergency medical response to the community. This program includes both the Paramedic and the Emergency Medical Technician levels of medical service. Firefighter/Paramedics staff three 24-hour Advanced Life Support M-4 City of El Cajon Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 Annual Budget ACTIVITY: FIRE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY NO: 140000-141000-145000- 250000-250100 ambulances, four paramedic assessment fire engines and one paramedic assessment truck. Emergency Medical Technicians staff one 8 hour
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