The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District will report Monday night that its March response time hit an average of 8:16 minutes after responding to 558 service calls. In the month of February, the District also had an average response time of 8:16 minutes on 537 calls.
In 2015, the District ran a total of 6,918 calls with an average response time of 7:54 minutes. The District, which was reduced to three engines from five, saw an increase in 33-seconds from 2014 where they averaged 7:21 minutes.
According to the District, in the month of March, Engine Company Rollouts
- Engine 93 (Oakley) ran 42% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 283 times.
- Engine 52 (Brentwood) ran 36% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 239 times.
- Engine 59 (Discovery Bay) ran 16% of the calls for service rolling out of the station 107 times.
- CALFIRE assisted on 3% of the calls for 22 rollouts.
- Auto Aid assisted in 3% of the calls for 17 rollouts
Average Response Time by Service Area:
- Bethel Island – 14:48 minutes
- Discovery Bay – 10:15 minutes
- Knightsen – 9:00 minutes
- Marsh Creek – 9:47 minutes
- Oakley – 7:08 minutes
- Brentwood – 7:25 minutes
Editor’s note: Discovery Bay’s average response time is up over a full minute when compared to the average response time in 2015.
Major Incidents/Reduced Responses and Mutual Aid Requests:
The Fire District is reporting during the month of March, they responded to 7 structure fires, 27 vehicle accidents and 9 vehicle accidents with rescue. Due to call volume, the District had zero engines available for response 10-times which totaled 3:46 hours.
Current staffing:
The District is budgeted for 34-operation personnel which includes 3 battalion chiefs and 31 station suppression personnel. As of April 1, staffing is at 3 battalion chiefs and 29 suppression personnel.
ECCFPD Board Meeting
Monday April 4, 2016
6:30 pm
3231 Main Street, Oakley
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4 comments
Didn’t Gus Vina who is the City Manager of Brentwood write something stating response times were 10 minutes? Looks like he fibbed, ECT is reporting they are at 8 minutes. Anything to pass a tax right?
what everyone needs to realize is that the 8 plus minute response times is over double what is required to have a state fire service rating of 3 or better. The higher the rating number is, the lower quality of service is being provided which in turn puts a higher risk on your house and increases your fire insurance rates on your house. These fire fighters take a lot of pride in providing the best service possible with the limited staff and resources they have. Personnally if had to choose between a fire assessment or a library assessment, I would choose the fire assessment everytime. In a life or death situation every minute counts and until you have experienced this for yourself first hand it is hard to understand.
Yes he did. He also asked how many stations people think needed for 210 square miles. I think that in itself is misleading when 180 square miles are baron and also covered by Cal Fire. Which also brings up a question on the number of stations. The Morgan Station is not counted but we pay for it. If we are to pass a tax after two failed attempts there must be more clarity and transparency. When people see inconsistencies and misleading statements they shut down. Let’s get on the same page with the public info and regain trust through honesty.
what everyone needs to realize is that the 8 plus minute responce times is over double what is required to have a state srevice rating of 3 or better. the higher the rating number the lower the quality of service that is being provided. these fire fighters take great pride in trying to provide the best possible service with the limited staffing and resources they have. if the districts rating increases above three because of slower response times this will have an impact on your fire insurance on your homes due to the higher risk. In a life or death situation every minute counts and until you have experienced this first hand it can be hard to understand the need to more staffing and stations to serve our community. If I had to choose between having a fire assessement or a library assessment. i would choose fire every time. fire service is a have to have and the library is a nice to have.
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