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DRAFT Comprehensive Fire Service Study MEDINA, MINNESOTA <br /> <br />Matrix Consulting Group Page 42 <br /> <br />• Defines a combination fire department as one having emergency service <br />personnel comprising less than 85 percent majority of either volunteer or career <br />membership. <br />• Defines a volunteer fire department as one having volunteer emergency service <br />personnel comprising 85 percent or greater of its department membership. <br />• Defines four demographic components based on population density as urban, <br />suburban, rural, and remote. <br /> <br />ISO continues to use their standard 1.5-mile and 2.5-mile criteria for engine company and <br />ladder company placement. Although they now accept a systematic performance <br />evaluation that demonstrates the department can meet the time constraints outlined in <br />NFPA 1710. <br /> <br />Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) had previously defined benchmar k and <br />baseline response times for each of the three components. They have since determined <br />they are not a standard making organization and decided to leave the establishment of <br />benchmark performance standards to others. However, their body of work is signi ficant <br />and has been and continues to be used by numerous communities across the country. <br />Their performance objectives were based on population density demographics. <br /> <br />By definition, NFPA 1720 is the applicable fire protection model for the City of Medina. <br />Additionally, ISO and the CPSE provide additional performance objectives for the City in <br />the delivery of fire protection services. While NFPA 1710 does not apply to the City of <br />Medina, Appendix A contained in that document provides supplementary information and <br />background as it pertains to service delivery objectives for the City as follows: <br /> <br />“There can be incidents or areas where the response criteria are affected by <br />circumstances such as response personnel who are not on duty, unstaffed fire <br />station facilities, natural barriers, traffic congestion, insufficient water supply, and <br />density of population or property. The reduced level of service should be <br />documented in the written organizational statement by the percentage of incidents <br />and geographical areas for which the total response time criteria are achieved. <br /> <br />Additional service delivery performance objectives should be established by the <br />AHJ for occupancies other than those identified within the standard for benchmark <br />single-family dwellings. Factors to be considered include specific response areas <br />(i.e., suburban, rural, and wilderness) and occupancy hazards.” <br /> <br />This passage acknowledges the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ), in this case the City