we have spoken about London FD before - lets expand on this thought London UK FD has 100 stations housing 150 pumpers - they have 50 stations with 2 pumpers and they have 50 stations with 1 pumper - if they moved to an organization with 150 stations with 1 pumper each - their costs would be level - but their response times would drop by 33%
(the drop would be 33% if I am doing my math correct - I look at it this way - they have 100 stations now - if they go to 150 stations, then the number of stations has increased by 50 - they have to cover 600 square miles - 600 / 100 = 6 - 600 / 150 = 4 - the number of square miles each station would have to cover would drop from 6 to 4 - 2 is one third of 6) Cal Fire has 237 state stations and 350 state engines (per wikipedia) - this tells us that 50% of the stations have 2 state engines - if Cal Fire switched to 350 stations with 1 engine per station - their response times would drop by 33% - same as London FD - because the math would work the same way Manhattan FD (part of FDNY) has 49 stations with 43 engines, 32 ladders, 1 squad, and 1 rescue - serving 1.5 million people - if they increased the number of stations to 77 (by placing one six man quint in each station), then the number of stations would increase by 57% - so their response times should drop by 57% Actually - Manhattan does not need 6 man companies - their neighborhoods are no more dangerous than other major cities in the USA - they just have more of the denser neighborhoods and more of the highrises So Manhattan has 77 companies of 6 people each - that is a total of 462 people on duty - divided by 4 is 114 - so Manhattan could be operating 114 four man quints - so they could reduce their response times by 43% For big highrise fires - they would probably need to send half of the units to the fire via subway or uber - otherwise there would be a sea of useless quints at the scene - maybe 1 or 2 police buses could carry all of the firefighters -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbBKZyB3LZgQNB5eNe0nbr2thJV0BoTand0xr37p2rPUQ%40mail.gmail.com.
