Bellevue Fire Department Standards of Cover Effective Date: May 1, 2021 Jerome “Jay” Hagen, Fire Chief Bellevue Fire Department | PO Box 90012 | Bellevue WA, 98009-9012 BELLEVUE FIRE DEPARTMENT STANDARDS OF COVER Bellevue Fire Department CRA/SOC Development Team Kieron Gillmore, Senior Business Process Analyst Community Risk Assessment/Standards of Cover Team Lead Captain Darren Rainey, Captain, Station 2 Operations, Structural Risk and response plans Lt. Camari Olson, Community Liaison Officer/Public Information Officer, CRR, education and outreach Lt. Eli Lehmann, EMS Administrative Officer EMS and CARES Lt. Alexa Dillhoff, Company Officer, Station 8 Special Operations and response plans Heather Wong, Community Risk Reduction Specialist, CRR, education and outreach FPO Jacob Branstetter, Acting Assistant Fire Marshal - Inspections Fire Prevention, CRR and Structural risk Ellen Montanana, CEM, Emergency Planning Coordinator Emergency Management, Critical Infrastructure and Hazard Analysis Page 2 BELLEVUE FIRE DEPARTMENT STANDARDS OF COVER Introduction The following report serves as the Bellevue Fire Department Community Risk Assessment (CRA) and Standards of Cover (SOC). Its purpose is to identify, assess and document local needs and circumstances, risks, strengths, gaps, and response capabilities. This process will recognize changing risks, identify opportunities for improvement, help to justify current service levels, and illuminate needed enhancements to our programs. The Bellevue Fire Department is dedicated to delivering a safe and effective response force to mitigate events requiring fire suppression, emergency medical and specialty technician-level response. This mitigation is best achieved by working with the community to provide, information, education, training, enforcement of codes and building engineering standards, economic incentives, and data-informed, focused outreach that prevents a situation from arising whenever possible. The department’s accrediting body, The Commission of Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) defines the SOC as, “Those written policies and procedures that establish the distribution and concentration of fixed and mobile resources of an organization.” In conducting this CRA and creating this SOC, the department analyzed many factors: demographics, such as, population densities, Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and community profiles; other factors like geography, climate, building design and structure, manmade hazards, fire-on-scene tasks, and both the type, quantity and distribution of emergency and non- emergency calls. This analysis both serves to quantify the risk to the community and better enables the department to evaluate changing risk. Therefore, establishing and managing performance standards which are data-informed and rooted in community expectations. Additionally, by periodically performing this analysis, the department provides a more responsive outreach/mitigation strategy, tailored to the changing demographics and make-up of the community served. Performance reporting and program evaluation will demonstrate where the department is meeting its established standards, where shortfalls exist, and measure a programs efficacy in achieving its desired outcomes. Ultimately, the analysis of these factors leads to the justification of changes in the placement and staffing of fire department resources, the addition of new resources, the creation or modification of response plans designed to mitigate the effects of those events and the prioritization of effective outreach strategies that prevent and mitigate behaviors contributing to risk. Page 3 BELLEVUE FIRE DEPARTMENT STANDARDS OF COVER Table of Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................. 10 Section 1 Documentation of Area Characteristics ................................................................. 11 Legal basis for agency ................................................................................................................... 11 Governance and Administration .................................................................................................... 11 Historical perspective ................................................................................................................... 12 Funding ........................................................................................................................................ 13 Service Area and Jurisdictions served ............................................................................................ 15 The City of Bellevue ............................................................................................................................................. 16 Beaux Arts Village ................................................................................................................................................ 18 The City of Clyde Hill ............................................................................................................................................ 18 The Town of Hunts Point ..................................................................................................................................... 19 The Town of Medina ............................................................................................................................................ 19 The City of Newcastle .......................................................................................................................................... 19 The Town of Yarrow Point ................................................................................................................................... 19 Topography and geology ............................................................................................................... 19 Climate ......................................................................................................................................... 20 Development ................................................................................................................................ 21 Section 2 Description of Agency Programs and Services ........................................................ 22 Population.................................................................................................................................... 22 Locations of existing fire stations and companies .......................................................................... 22 Resource descriptions ................................................................................................................... 24 Staffing levels and staffing patterns .............................................................................................. 24 Automatic/Mutual Aid ......................................................................................................................................... 25 Operations - Response .................................................................................................................. 26 Suppression response .......................................................................................................................................... 26 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Response ..................................................................................................... 26 Technical Rescue Response ................................................................................................................................. 27 Hazardous Materials Response ........................................................................................................................... 27 Aviation Rescue and Firefighting ......................................................................................................................... 27 Marine and Shipboard Rescue and Firefighting .................................................................................................. 27 Wildland Fire Services .......................................................................................................................................... 27 Other Programs/Services .............................................................................................................. 28 Fire Prevention Division (FPD) ............................................................................................................................. 28 Page 4 BELLEVUE FIRE DEPARTMENT STANDARDS OF COVER Community Liaison/Risk Reduction ..................................................................................................................... 28 Office of Emergency Management (OEM) ........................................................................................................... 28 Citizens Advocates for Referral and Education Services (CARES) ........................................................................ 29 Citizen satisfaction and engagement ............................................................................................. 29 Community Loss and Save Data ..................................................................................................... 30 Agency goals ...............................................................................................................................