Fire Chief Division [001-2110]
Fire Department
Fiscal Year 2021-2022
Fire Chief Division
The City's Fire Chief Division is responsible for the overall management of the Fire Department and is committed to professional excellence by ensuring the City's Fire Department personnel are motivated and properly trained in emergency response, hazard mitigation, fire safety and life safety education. This division properly manages fire department resources in order to protect lives and property by providing ISO 1 rated service.
Goals
- Provide a high level of fire prevention and related services commensurate with community expectations through effective administration. Continually assess the ever-changing threats and risks of the community. These risks will be assessed by a constant evaluation of the hazards and vulnerabilities of the community versus the current protective measures. By identifying these threats we can prioritize the education and training of our responders to allow our responders to take proactive approaches when responding to emergencies to reduce the impact to the community.
- Increase positive contact with the businesses and keep up to date with any changes to the City so as to ensure the protection of our citizen's lives and property.
- Improve the safety and welfare of the community by offering a safe environment and public education on fire safety.
- Ensure commercial buildings are inspected twice annually for fire hazards/code violations. Ensure any violation is corrected within 30 days.
- Ensure all fire hydrants are tested once annually to ensure adequate water is available when needed.
- Offer training and certifications to the community such as CPR, Pool Safety, Fire Prevention, home inspection, fire extinguisher training, smoke detector replacement, child car seat inspections, etc.
- Continued maintenance of the ISO 1 Fire Department Accreditation.
- Provide the Orange County Contract area with the equal standard of care of our current city residents.