WELCOME TO NORTH PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT
The North Park Fire Department is a member of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Division 8 along with 23 other area fire departments, providing apparatus and personnel during large-scale emergencies.
The North Park Fire Department is comprised of approximately 50 personnel including one full-time fire chief, four full-time paramedics, a part-time administrative assistant, and a combination of part-time and volunteer firefighters and EMTs. The district is served by one centralized fire station housing a total of three front-line engines, one aerial truck, two squads, one utility vehicle, three command vehicles, two Advanced Life Support ambulances and one boat.
Mutual and automatic aid agreements are great when reciprocal and fair. They work great for fires as it allows agencies involved to achieve NFPA standard staffing on scene in a timely manner, and we all give and take equally.
Relying on other agencies to send an ambulance to 1 in 5 of our ambulance calls is not equitable or fair. North Park should be able to cover the vast majority of our EMS responses on our own.
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North Park is no longer the sleepy, run-from-home volunteer department with low call volume. The district needs to increase staffing and response capability to keep up with demand.
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How many full time fire medics?
How many staffing are you currently running in our area per day? What is the current model?
We need you. I voted YES
Seconds save lives. The district increasingly faces overlapping calls.
Mutual aid is a great solution for overwhelming calls. It is NOT the answer for 1 in 5 calls. The district should be capable of handling the bulk of our emergency responses on our own.
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