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Morrisville fire chief details data fixes and requests three budgeted firefighter positions to raise minimum staffing
Summary
Fire Chief Tom Doolin told the Town Council that data‑quality issues had distorted turnout and travel‑time metrics, that technology and deployment changes are improving accuracy, and he asked the council to approve three budgeted firefighter positions (one per shift) to reach a 20‑person per‑shift staffing goal and enable four‑person engine companies.
Fire Chief Tom Doolin told the Town Council that a review of the department’s GAAP gap report identified data‑quality problems that had distorted turnout and travel‑time metrics and that technical fixes and staffing changes are already underway.
“Not all data is bad,” Doolin said. “We can learn a lot from it when we dive into it,” and described switching from legacy tablets tied to trucks to iPads with cellular service and installing cellular boosters at stations to remove delays that made en‑route times look longer than they were.
Why it matters: the town uses turnout and travel times to measure emergency response performance and to plan apparatus and staffing. Doolin said the department still operates with a three‑person minimum on many frontline trucks, but that the department’s “ideal…
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