City of Morgan Hill Public Safety Master Plan

Observations:

■ Engine 67 made the most runs (1,691, an average of 4.6 per day) and had the highest total annual deployed time (901 hours, an average of 148 minutes per day). □ EMS calls accounted for 1,156 of these runs (68 percent) and 604 hours (67 percent) of deployed time. □ Structure and outside fires accounted for 90 of these runs (5 percent) and 97 hours (11 percent) of deployed time. □ Calls within MHFD’s coverage area accounted for 66 percent of this engine’s runs and 58 percent of its deployed hours. ■ Engine 57 made the second most runs (1,507, an average of 4.1 per day) and had the second-highest total annual deployed time (786 hours, an average of 129 minutes per day). □ EMS calls accounted for 1,047 of these runs (69 percent) and 546 hours (70 percent) of deployed time. □ Structure and outside fires accounted for 66 of these runs (4 percent) and 49 hours (6 percent) of deployed time. □ Calls within MHFD’s coverage area accounted for 82 percent of this engine’s runs and 77 percent of its deployed hours. ■ Overall, Station 1 was the busiest station, with 2,304 runs and 1,639 hours of deployed time for the year. Of its runs and hours: □ Calls in MHFD’s coverage area accounted for 54 percent of the runs and 36 percent of the deployed hours. □ Calls in SSCCFD’s coverage area accounted for 38 percent of the runs and 43 percent of the deployed hours. Another evaluation of workload involves the frequency distribution of calls. In this analysis we look at the total 8,760 hours of the year and track the frequency in which alarms occur in each hour. From this analysis we can determine that in most instances there are two or fewer calls occurring in each hour. We can determine that 85.7 percent of the time there is no call or one call occurring in an hour. On only 926 occasions do we see two calls occurring in an hour. This indicates that, 96.3 percent of the time, there are two or fewer calls occurring each hour. With the five responding units available throughout the year, the frequency distribution of calls indicates that only infrequently are all units deployed simultaneously on active alarms. Table 4-7 represents the frequency distribution of calls in the combined Morgan Hill and SSCCFD service area. At the same time, it must be pointed out that whenever there is an active fire event, all units will be deployed and the availability of additional units to respond to a simultaneous event will require outside assistance from a mutual aid partner or a Santa Clara County ambulance unit will need to respond to an EMS call without a fire unit. □ Mutual aid calls accounted for 8 percent of the runs and 21 percent of the deployed hours. ■ One-third of Engine 69’s runs were for mutual aid calls, including cancelled calls in other areas.

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