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Orono Fire Needs Assessment <br />25 | Page <br /> <br />The general concept of the first 15 minutes can be applied to other incident types such as <br />rescue and medicals. Critical tasks must be conducted in a timely and orderly manner in order <br />to bring calm to the chaos. The fire chief is ultimately responsible for assuring that responding <br />companies/firefighters are capable of performing the tasks assigned to them in a prompt, <br />efficient and safely. <br />Staffing for an auto crash with extrication would be 13 responders, while staffing for an EMS <br />incident would only be 4. Please see Annex G for the breakdown of their roles. <br />Another way to see how many firefighters are needed is to review the national and regional <br />rates of firefighters per 1,000 people. The Long Lake Fire Department falls within the regional <br />and is above the national median. The graph below illustrates this <br /> <br /> <br />This comparison doesn’t necessarily translate into the ability to generate sufficient personnel <br />for incident response. It is not surprising that the region and LLFD are above the national <br />median. The upper Midwest has the highest amount of volunteer or paid on call firefighters. <br />The following graph shows LLFD’s ability to generate its own personnel for each type of call on <br />average for the past 9 years. <br />3.23 <br />3.98 3.82 <br />0 <br />0.5 <br />1 <br />1.5 <br />2 <br />2.5 <br />3 <br />3.5 <br />4 <br />4.5 <br />National Median Regional Median Long Lake Fire <br />Median Rates of Firefighters per 1,000 People