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Folsom fire chief outlines temporary redeployments and data fixes to maintain response coverage
Summary
Fire Chief Jason Solak told the City Council that data gaps and station configuration constraints require temporary redeployments beginning April 21: move the ladder truck back to Station 35 temporarily, reassign engines and medics among Stations 34–39, and pursue Station 37 renovations while building a better CAD-to-RMS data framework for compliance reporting.
Fire Chief Jason Solak told the City Council on April 14 that the Folsom Fire Department will implement a temporary deployment plan next week to maintain service reliability while the city addresses data and facility constraints. Solak said the changes are designed to preserve redundancy and improve response across the city while staff complete renovations at Station 37 and build a more reliable data framework.
Solak, who described standards-of-cover benchmarks used across the fire service, said the department measures compliance against response-time goals such as a 4-minute travel-time objective and commonly uses a 90% performance benchmark. He said the city’s records-management system currently lacks GIS linkages and other inputs needed to compute a fully compliant dataset, which forces…
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