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Performance Measures Description:
The Fire
Actual Goal Estimated Goal Administration/ EOC
FY 17-18 FY 18-19 FY 18-19 FY 19-20 is located between N.
Inputs: 21st St. & Cedar,
Number of firefighting authorized positions 174 174 175 177 McAllen, TX. The
Number of inspectors 8 8 9 9 Department is
Number of Airport assigned firefighters 15 9 9 9 comprised of: (177)
Number of Public Education Officers 1 1 1 1 civil service
Number of firefighting authorized apparatus 19 19 19 19 employees/active
firefighter personnel,
Number of pumper companies with (1) Fire Chief, non-civil
minimum three (persons) 10 10 10 10 service employee, (17)
Department Expenditures $ 19,268,464 $ 19,567,425 $ 18,478,495 $ 20,249,575
Outputs: civilian employees,
administrative
Fire Alarms personnel, (85) haz-
Total Alarm Responses 6,824 7,400 7,870 7,700 mat technicians, (7)
Alarms out of city 118 120 200 210 sub-stations located
Multiple Alarms 8 4 10 5 throughout the city,
Airport Alerts 4 2 6 2 (52) total fleet (e.g. fire
Operations Division trucks, pumpers,
Number of vehicles maintained by fire service ladder trucks,
personnel 51 51 52 53 vehicles).
Total Man hours @ fires 28,024.00 3,000 32,245 33,000
Water pumped (gallons) @ fires 120,200 140,000 155,000 100,000
Fire Hydrant Maint. (Man hours) 2,125 2,250 2,512 2,600
General Maint. (Man hours) 35,247 36,000 36,580 37,000
Fire Prevention Division
Fire Prevention Presentations 190 200 225 250
Total Audience 34,850 35,000 40,000 42,000
Fire Prevention Inspections 4,680 4,750 4,000 4,000
Fire Prevention Investigations 16 18 15 15
Training Division
Training Man hours-In Service 12,500 12,600 18,000 19,000
Continuous Education 4,700 4,800 4,524 4,600
Hazardous Material 700 700 800 800
Aircraft Rescue Firefighting 950 1,125 902 900
Emergency Care Attendant 2,584 2,500 2,600 2,700
Effective Measures:
Average response times (minutes) 4:41 4:45 4:40 4:30
Reported to dispatch :30 :25 :20 :19
Response to arrival (travel time) 3:59 3:30 3:34 3:20
Percent estimated property fire loss 4.4% 4.0% 9.6% 4.0%
Efficiency Measures:
Operating cost per capita $133.78 $128.00 $134.70 $130.00
Average number of inspections per inspector
per month 42 45 50.0 55
Number of firefighters per 1000 residents 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.3
Number of firefighters per square mile 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.6
Department expenditures per capita $125.68 $120.20 $126.00 $120.00
Notes: *Includes 7 pumpers, 2 trucks and 1 rescue.
4384 hydrants at 10 minutes each times 3 persons.
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