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Station Location, Apparatus, and Staffing Analysis Rosevilie, MN Data Limitations and Assumptions The RFD was only able to provide CAD data for one year due to CAD system limitations. This made it difficult to analyze response time trends. In addition, RFD does not keep track of call initiation (i.e. call received} time, which precluded an accurate analysis of call processing times. To overcorne this barrier, the average call processing times were extrapolated from a previous study conducted for the St. Paul Minnesota Fire Department in 2005 as they belong to the same dispatch center as RFD. T'he time segments provided in the CAD data only took into account the hours and minutes and excluded seconds. Thus, the response times for each intervai could only be provic�ed in hours and minutes in this analysis. In several instances, dispatchers may have manually entered in times after responding to a call if they did not have enough time to enter this data into the system initially. Another challenge presented in this analysis was the lack of differentiation between non- emergency and emergency calls. The RFD lacks the mechanism to parcel out which calls are emergency versus non-emergency. Recommendation 1: Keep track emergency versus non-emerge�cy calls The nature of each incident was classified by RFD and broken down into three categories—fire, medical or DND (did not dispatch}. For DND an alarm company was used when a call is generated by the communications center, but not toned out for the fire department. However, RFD was unable to provide a description for the incidents listed in the CAD data. For example, calls were either listed as medical, %re, or DND and no other information were provided about the cali (i.e., "auto alarm," "chest pain," or another type of call). Recomme�dation 2: Provide proper call information in the CAD data. RFD has acknowiedged that their current records management system is inadequate and are unable to provide proper call information. Tl�is issue can be appropriately addressed by the usc of current records management software. An accurate representation of the travel time reach is generally calculated based on the �ength of GIS road centerline segments and the posted speed limits. However, speed lunits were unavailable for a majority of the road centerline segments and an average speed of 41 miles per hour was calculated based on 518 speed limit records available out of 1700 calls for service. Traffic limiting factors such as topography, narrow roads, and congestion are typically taken into consideration when calculating speed Iimits. However, Lhese factors were not taken into consideration as main roads and highways in Roseville constitute much of the city's roadway systern. System Planning Corporation 8 May 2008 TriData Division