Emergency Resource Deployment Planning Standards of Coverage (SOC) R0492

This six-day course is designed for fire/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) service leaders and managers, local officials and planning personnel who are faced with performance outcome management decisions that relate to providing fire protection and EMS for their community.

Rapid change in the demand for fire and emergency services and the lack of commensurate funding and resources impacts service delivery and risk to both providers and citizens. Students collect data, analyze, compare and contrast findings to identify base-level performance standards and changes influenced by internal and external impacts. Metrics are used to demonstrate changes in current and future service levels; expenditures and resource allocations; and changing impacting risk impacts on citizens and the community.

Until recently, being able to quantify and justify increases in fire-related services has been difficult because of a lack of available data and accepted analytic methods. This course will demonstrate how national fire incident data and analysis tools combined with the International Association of Fire Chiefs/International City/County Management Association “Standards of Coverage” and Insurance Services Office methodology can document the distribution and concentration of fixed and mobile resources and develop an acceptable model to meet community performance and outcome standards and to guide future growth discussions.

This course is “hands-on” and requires participating agencies to provide local fire and emergency service resource data and an inventory of values at risk (critical infrastructure/target hazard information, etc.). Specific requirements will be provided in the pre-course information.