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Station Location, Apparatus, and Staffing Analysis Roseville, MN ANALYSIS OF STATIONS, APPARATUS, AND STAFFING In January 2008, the City of Roseville requested a proposal for professional services to assist with an analysis and recommendations for the number and location of the city's fire stations as well as recommendations for the appropriate level of on-duty staffing to meet service demands. TriData, a division of System Planning Corporation, located in Arlington, Virginia was selected to conduct this study. Central to the study was an analysis to determine how the city's fire and emergency medical services should be deployed to best accommodate service demands. The City of Roseville was established in 1948, as a strategically located first-ring suburb, between the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Roseville's population and commercial development grew dramatically during the 1950s and 1960s. The city turned its focus from planning to redevelopment and preservation. Today, Roseville is home for a permanent population of 35,000 within the 13.8 square mile city limits. Roseville also contains more than 5,500 businesses that employ 35,000 people. With the visitors to area shopping centers, the daytime populations can approach 100,000. Roseville has two major freeways within the city limits. Highway 36 runs east-west through the center of the city. Interstate 35W runs north-south on the west side of the city. Both are major traffic arteries for the twin-cities metropolitan area. Roseville has five lakes in the city (Bennet, Josephine, Langton, McCarrons and Owasso), including two that have public water accesses. Two of the lakes, Josephine and McCarrons, are among the busiest public beaches in Ramsey County. There are also 12 other sizeable bodies of water in the city. All of these are included in the fire department's public safety response to water emergencies. There are two active railroad lines in the city; one running east-west through the city and the other north-south on the west side of the city. Runway approaches for the Saint Paul Regional Airport and the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport are over the City of Roseville. The west side of town hosts two major petroleum bulk-storage facilities. Forty-seven tanks situated on two farms contain 2.4 million barrels of gasoline, fuel oil, ethanol, and jet fuel. Additionally, more than 300 fuel tanker trucks are loaded and driven through the streets of Roseville daily. Past events have included major fires at the loading racks at the tank farm and fires/hazmat spills that resulted from motor vehicle accidents on the roadway involving tanker trucks. The west end of the city is also host to many businesses that perform a variety of highly System Planning Corporation TriData Division May 2008