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Orono Fire Needs Assessment <br />26 | Page <br /> <br /> <br />To do an interior attack on the fire a fire department should have 15 - 16 firefighters on scene <br />but for the other types of calls you need less. The City of Long Lake pages each station on <br />weekdays from 0600 – 1800 hours to assure an adequate response of personnel for the calls for <br />service, especially at Station 2. This leads to inefficiencies as shown in the graph above. <br />Medicals, over the last 9 years make up 35% of all calls to Orono and Alarms are 36%. Fire calls <br />only make up 10% of the total calls over the same time period. <br />Station 2 daytime response performance is masked by paging both stations for day time calls. <br />Station 2 over the last few years averages less than 4 firefighters per Orono daytime calls. <br />Station 2 produces less than 2 firefighters for daytime calls 10% of the time. Their average <br />turnout time is 7:45 and the average on scene time is 13:08 as compared to the overall average <br />turnout time of 6:10 and average on scene time is 10:51 <br />3.4.2 Personnel Policies and Processes <br />The Long Lake Fire Department has a contemporary personnel policy manual. They provide <br />training on these policies to the firefighters. LLFD uses Lexipol® web-based policy management <br />service since the City of Long Lake’s policy manual is outdated. <br />Recruiting, selecting and retaining firefighters takes considerable investment of time, effort and <br />money to ensure high quality employees work in the organization. Gone are the days of hiring <br />anyone who walks through the front door. Selecting the best candidates that fit within the <br />department and its culture requires deliberate and comprehensive evaluation. It has been a <br />challenge to recruit and retain firefighters the past few years at LLFD. <br /> <br />14.50 <br />13.28 <br />11.01 10.90 <br />0.00 <br />2.00 <br />4.00 <br />6.00 <br />8.00 <br />10.00 <br />12.00 <br />14.00 <br />16.00 <br />Fire Medical Alarm Other <br />9 Year Average of Firefighters <br />per Type of Incident