Bellevue Essentials 2015 Fire Chief Mark Risen

The Bellevue Fire Department exists to assist the public in the protection of life and property by minimizing the impact of fire, medical emergencies, and potential disasters or uncontrolled events that affect the community and environment

FTEs Fire Suppression & BLS Advance Life Support Fire Prevention Training 4.00 Emergency Management* 5.66 Administration 7.25 Outreach & Education 2.00 Supply & Maintenance 1.80 Total General Fund

To provide an equitable level of response and service to all citizens.

9 Stations 39 Fire suppression staff 4 paramedics staffing two medic units. (Station 2, OHMC) 4 additional paramedics staffing medic units in Issaquah and North Bend. 1 MSO (Station 2)

Response calls:  Total Incidents 2014 – 17, 739  80.2% or 14,227 medical calls; 8,098 patients were transported  17.6% or 3115 Suppression calls; 2.2 % or 397 were fires. Inspections:  Fire inspects approx. 7,115 businesses/buildings annually;  Protects over $42 Billion Assessed Valuation (AV);  50,000, or 80%, are single family residential (SFR) structures.

Firefighters serve multiple roles:  Medical calls  Suppression/fire calls  Rescues  Hazardous Materials calls  Inspect businesses  Conduct Pre-Fires  Educate the public  Give tours and participate in Outreach events

Bellevue Fire provides Suppression and Basic Life Support (BLS) services to the following contract cities: Newcastle, Medina, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Yarrow Point, Beaux Arts & unincorporated King County  Bellevue = square miles/136,426 citizens  Contract Communities = 6 square miles/20,000 citizens.  City receives over $4.1 million in revenue annually from contract cities.

 Provide paramedic services from Mercer Island to the top of Snoqualmie Pass;  250 square miles/300,000 citizens;  Operates four medic units:  Two units in Bellevue – Overlake Hospital and Fire Station 2, One unit in Issaquah and One unit in North Bend  King County EMS levy provides $8 million annual revenue; full funding for paramedic program. Regional Advanced Life Support (ALS) provider for King County Medic One:

 High Angle  Confined Space/Trench  Water  Structural Collapse  Rope Bellevue ladder truck personnel are highly trained & certified rescue technicians:

Eastside Hazardous Materials Consortium:  City of Bellevue is lead agency;  Eastside Haz-Mat response apparatus resides at Fire Station 6, and all personnel at that facility are trained as Haz-Mat Technicians;  A regional approach reduces costs for all agencies in these high impact, low frequency incidents.

Training Division: Bellevue participates in regional training drills with other eastside fire departments and Seattle Fire. Each firefighter needs over 100 hours of continuing education training and testing each year to stay certified. Our last academy was a joint effort between Bellevue Fire and Kirkland Fire, held at our training facility.

 Provides Bellevue citizens public education and outreach services.  Trains city employees in all phases of emergency management.  Builds partnerships with public and private agencies and businesses to aid future response and recovery efforts. Office of Emergency Management: Coordinates city emergency management activities, maintains the city’s Emergency Operations Center, and develops emergency plans. Works with federal, state and local partners to actively plan for to respond to and recover from disasters.

Fire Prevention Division: “ an ounce of Prevention, equals a pound of Suppression ” Prevention –  Work with Development Service staff to ensure that fire suppression systems are designed and installed correctly.  Mitigate hazardous practices to reduce the incidence of fire  Annual inspect business and multi-family residences to ensure fire suppression systems remain functional  Licenses high hazard operations to ensure safety

 Public Education and Outreach  Annual High Rise Drills  Free residential Smoke Detector installations  MYN-Map Your Neighborhood  CERT-Community Emergency Response Teams  Bellevue Community Support  Fire Prevention Week  CPR Training  DUI Drills  Open House  Safe-T-Element flame device installations  Juvenile fire-setter intervention program  Heart Week – free glucose and blood pressure

Accreditation  Bellevue Fire first accredited by the Commission of Fire Accreditation International in 1998 (one of only twelve accredited departments worldwide at the time).  Obtained reaccreditation in 2003, 2008 and Washington Surveying & Rating Bureau  Fire Class II rating – one of only three Fire Departments in the state.

Citizen Surveys  City of Bellevue 2014 Budget Survey results indicate responding to fires and providing emergency medical services were ranked 1 & 2 for importance and satisfaction. Regularly performance monitoring  Annually ICMA & Department Scorecard  Monthly by division and to outside agencies (Contract Communities and KC EMS)

Total Emergency Response Time – 5:23 min/sec average  Time from 911 call receipt to first arriving Fire apparatus on scene.  Goal is 6 minutes, 90% of the time. In 2011, we achieved this goal on 69.19% of our emergency calls. Fires confined to the room of origin – %  A nationally accepted measure to define a programs effectiveness in containing the spread of fire.  Bellevue consistently exceeds its target on this measure, and is in the top 2% of Fire Departments in the nation. Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate – 58.3 %  Considered the standard to measure an EMS systems’ effectiveness.  Bellevue and King County are in the top 1% in the world.

 Annual operating budget - $43.6 M  76% Personnel  16% Inter-funds  Annual operating revenue - $15.9 M (36.5%)  % of budget spent on Administration – 2.8%

Fire Suppression & Emergency Medical  Increased daily staffing from 47 to 48 per day –  4 firefighters Fire Prevention / Development Services  Added 2 Fire Prevention Officers  Added 0.75 Program Manager for the CARES program

Consultant study analyzed:  Population Changes  Fire Risk  Services Demand  Emergency Response Performance  Firefighter Health and Safety  Training Space Requirements  Other functional needs at the 9 Fire Stations and Public Safety Training Center

$130 million worth of facility needs were identified for the next years. Due to fiscal constraints, only the most critical were funded in the CIP:  Rebuilding Fire Station 5 ($12 million funded in )  Purchasing property for a new downtown fire station ($7.5 million funded in 2015)  Partial funding for the expansion of the Public Safety Training Center ($5 million funded in )

 Ensure emergency response capabilities  Maximize resources to assure the highest return on investment  Continue to search for efficiencies and partnerships in all program areas  Look for cost effective opportunities to expand Prevention, Education and Outreach efforts that engage and involve the community.