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RESPONSE TIME <br /> Response tie is the period of time from when a call is dispatched to the fire department; <br /> to the time the first fire department personnel arrive on the scene of an emergency. <br /> Average response time nationally for career-staffed departments is currently 4 minutes 30 <br /> seconds. The average time for a Paid per Call department or departments who are staffed <br /> by volunteers is 6minutes 30 seconds to over 8 minutes. <br /> As you seen on the previous page our current response time is currently 2 minutes 40 <br /> seconds. This response is of great value to our community during a fire or medical <br /> emergency. In the case of a fire it is estimated a fire doubles in size in its first five <br /> minutes of growth. In the event of a heart attack the brain begins to die in four to six <br /> minutes. So you can see the benefit of arriving to someone's event how our response time <br /> benefits our customers. <br /> The reason for our good response time is due to the staff monitoring the police <br /> communications channel. When a medical is received the Police are dispatched first and <br /> then fire. By monitoring the police channel our personnel are in the Engine prior to us <br /> being dispatched. The other factor is the size of our community as it is as we can <br /> transverse the city in a short amount of time. <br />