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Mount Vernon says fire engines meet NFPA 4‑minute benchmark on roughly half of city roads; city cites need for more firefighters
Summary
City officials said the Mount Vernon Fire Department meets the National Fire Protection Association benchmark — a fire engine reaching a fire within four minutes 90 percent of the time — on about 50 percent of city roads and that the department needs more firefighters and apparatus to improve coverage for 8,000-plus annual emergency calls.
Mount Vernon city officials said the Mount Vernon Fire Department meets the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) benchmark — a fire engine arriving within four minutes in 90 percent of calls — on only about half of the city’s roads, and that the department needs more firefighters on shift and additional engine capacity to improve that rate. The city also said MDFD handles more than 8,000 emergency calls each year.
The NFPA benchmark is described as…
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