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Feasibility study recommends new north-side satellite fire station at city-owned site
Summary
A consultant hired by the City of Fond du Lac recommended designing and constructing a north-side satellite fire station on city-owned property at 365 North Main Street to improve response-time coverage toward NFPA 1710 benchmarks; the study estimated a ~12–20 percentage point improvement in 4-minute coverage for parts of the city.
City Manager Moore and Fire Chief Garretson presented a feasibility analysis on June 4 that recommended designing and constructing a new satellite fire station on the north side of Fond du Lac to improve response-time coverage.
Jim Schmidt, senior emergency services specialist with 5 Bugles Design, told the council the firm's GIS modeling found coverage gaps north of the city under the three-station model and that adding a fourth station would substantially improve four-minute arrival metrics. "Irreversible brain damage can occur within 4 to 6 minutes," Schmidt said, explaining the importance of the four-minute response benchmark used in industry standards.
Schmidt said the study…
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