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operations in the Fire Service, staffing makes all of the difference. To ensure we have the proper staffing on each large incident, all working incidents within the City of Fridley will receive a Fridley all call along with auto aid from Columbia Heights, St. Anthony Village and other mutual aid partners. For effective mitigation, it is critical to achieve a goal of having 17 firefighters on the scene of a working fire within 8 minutes. The FFD will become part of the SBMFD organization and will therefore be treated as two additional fire stations. When a general alarm for the FFD is sounded, it will be a general alarm for the SBMFD instead of an auto aid response. Normal 1 st alarm response to the City of Fridley will be SBM Stations 1 and 2 as well as additional Chief Officers and support vehicles. Emergency Medical Services Ever increasing Medical calls (Emergent and Non -Emergent) continue to put an increasing and significant burden on the staffing for all fire departments, with the FFD falling into that category. Recently, the FFD reduced the amount and type of EMS calls it responds on, providing Emergency Medical Technician response to incidents they can have a significant impact on. This process would be reviewed and response to call types may be added or reduced to ensure the most effective and efficient use of resources possible. The SBMFD currently responds to Personal Injury Accidents and Code Blue (cardiac arrest) calls upon dispatch with other agencies. Other call types are upon request by the municipal police departments. With this system, however, EMS calls for service will continue to require a response, most likely the police department. With the significant decrease in response to non -emergent medical calls, FFD EMTs can focus on the future by training on and providing, advanced interventions as protocols and medical direction allow. Some of these would be NARCAN administration, glucose monitoring 9 1 P a g