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Par:4e <br />Figure 2 — Fireground Staffing Requirements of NFPA 1710 — Effective Fire <br />Fighting Force <br />15 PERSONNEL REQUIRED <br />17 llt""I erial Deviee ant! <br />Supply 11timp are in Operation <br />>m <br />LM <br />TOTAL ON SCENE: 17 <br />Incident Command Vehicle: I ChiefOfiicer <br />Ladder Tuck: I Officer/3 Fire Fighters <br />*1 FF assigned to rictim rescue <br />(3r„„warne;. I Officerl F[re Fighters <br />Eqg re: I Offlcer%3 Fire righters <br />I:n i 1017icer:t3 Fire Fighters <br />*1 FF assigned to wohn rescrre <br />"I FF assigned to Incident Commander <br />*1 Off icer, 1 H'F assig*ited to ]RIC" <br />i <br />i <br />i i , !ltlt V4 "M14 i!! t. <br />Rtt(t! _514 <br />22 <br />Source: NFPA 1710 Implementation Guide — International Association of Fire Chiefs/International <br />Association of Fire Fighters, 2002 <br />A fire company consists of a piece of fire apparatus (heavy-duty vehicle) and the <br />firefighters assigned to it, with the equipment they need to provide services. For <br />effective services, there should be one officer, a driver/operator, and two firefighters. All <br />or several may be certified as emergency medical technicians or paramedics, if their <br />department provides EMS. An effective fire fighting force for a fire in a 2000 square foot <br />single family dwelling consists of four fire companies, each staffed with four fire <br />personnel, and a command officer, for a total of seventeen firefighters and officers. <br />Several studies, including those conducted by the National Institute of Standards and <br />Technology (NIST), have demonstrated that this is the number of personnel to <br />effectively mitigate these types of fire incidents. Since all fire departments in South King <br />County staff fire apparatus with an officer, driver and one firefighter, additional <br />apparatus would need to respond to assemble the firefighting force of seventeen <br />firefighters listed in the Standard. <br />Fire departments send the closest available resource (engine, tower, quint, squad) to an <br />emergency. If the closest resource is not available, the next closest resource is <br />automatically selected by the dispatching system and sent. This creates a cascading <br />effect in the community where busy areas of the community draw resources from slower <br />Tukwila Fire Department — Station Location Study <br />June 2017 <br />Wei <br />