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Fitch study: Cottage Grove central station covers >90% of calls; consultants recommend data fixes, staffing and staged capital options
Summary
Fitch & Associates presented a draft fire service evaluation to the Cottage Grove Public Service Commission showing a 90th‑percentile overall response time of about 14.3 minutes (dispatch 4.3, turnout 3.1, travel 9.3). GIS modeling suggests the central fire station can meet travel-time standards for roughly 93–94% of calls; consultants recommended focusing on dispatch/turnout improvements, planning fleet replacement, and evaluating staffing and EMS cost-sharing models. Final recommendations will go to the council on Dec. 3.
Consultants from Fitch & Associates presented a draft standards-of-cover and community risk assessment to the Cottage Grove Public Service Commission and described options to improve reliability without immediately adding stations.
BJ (senior consultant) and Michael Mondor outlined the firm’s methodology: four phases (qualitative stakeholder input, GIS/station-location analysis, community risk assessment and standards-of-cover recommendations). They emphasized reporting 90th‑percentile response times as a measure of reliability and said Cottage Grove’s 90th‑percentile performance measured roughly dispatch 4.3 minutes, turnout 3.1 minutes and travel 9.3 minutes for a total near 14.3 minutes.
The GIS work showed the city’s central fire…
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