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The Mayor and City Council shall discuss and possibly take action on approving funding for Fire Department City-Wide Incident Preplans with vendor Preplanners LLC in an amount not to exceed $48,000 to be paid for from contingency (10010000-99000). Discussion and Action.
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The City of Maricopa Fire & Medical Department responds to over 4600 calls for service annually. Of this number, almost 15% (almost 700 incident responses) are for fire related requests. Currently, the fire department has no real way to “preplan” incident responses for the requested fire related incidents.
“Preplans” are formal plans of a specific building or business which highlight; access points, fire suppression and alarm systems, fire hydrant locations, knox boxes, utility shut offs and other operational and tactical considerations.
By not possessing preplans, Fire Incident Commanders are limited to what they can see from their Command vehicle, which in most cases only encompass approximately 10-20% of a buildings total square footage. This illustrates an immense disadvantage in strategic planning at fire incidents and other emergency scenarios. Not only does it hinder Maricopa Fire Crews, it also greatly limits Auto and Mutual Aid partner departments coming into Maricopa when requested. They have NO way of specific mapping or viewing footprints (preplans) of buildings prior to arrival on scene. These are all major issues for the operational capabilities of Maricopa Fire & Medical along with all other partner agencies.
After much research, the Maricopa Fire & Medical Department’s Fire Prevention Division has found one group that can assist the department in creating and implementing the much-needed preplans for the city’s commercial, industrial and educational buildings. This group, The Preplanners LLC., is not only a valley company but is the only resource that can deliver complete, professional, and user-friendly preplans that are so badly needed by the fi...
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