| Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to determine the need for risk reduction methodologies within the Tulsa Fire Department in Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to comply with the National Fire Protection Standard 1710: Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments Current Edition: 2001 . The study was conducted on 750,000 database records for 2001. Time Objectives, Staffing Objectives, and Deployment Objectives were tested with fourteen null hypotheses. The author used z scores converted to a DCB/1710/GAP score to determine compliance and significance.; Findings and conclusions. A department meeting the specific requirements of the selected portions of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 dealing with response times, staffing objectives, and deployment objectives of 1710 would score a 100 on the Compliance Scale (CS) for each objective. Conversely, a department meeting none of the specific requirements of 1710 would score a 0. A CS score of less than 100 for the objective indicates a “Gap” in the department's compliance with the standard. The TFD total compliance score on the DCB/1710/GAP instrument was calculated in the following manner. The Response Time Objectives were scored as 62.90, the Staffing Objective was scored as 84.18, the RIC Deployment Objective was scored as 13.02, and the overall CS was calculated as 65.61. This indicates a GAP of 34.39 points of the Compliant Agency Score. In other words TFD meets 65% of the four areas examined by this study. The study includes the DCB/1710/GAP instrument and recommendations for improvement. |
