American Canyon Fire Protection District*

R5

That all municipal Fire Departments continue to actively provide information about the Safely Surrendered Baby Law program to the public, including all middle and high schools in Napa County, as a part of their public education programs. Fire District / City Response to Recommendation 5: Presently, the Fire District / City does not have the resources to expand the public education program to include the Safely Surrendered Baby Law program to middle and high school students. The Fire District will begin to implement this educational program to the extent that it can in the future. We will obtain public information materials regarding this program to provide to the public. We will provide access to the informational materials by displaying them in public areas of all Fire District and City facilities. We will also make the materials available during public education displays throughout the community. Received APR - 4 2008 Maria de Como

R6

That the American Canyon City Council adopt an emergency plan specific to the City of American Canyon and the American Canyon Fire District. Fire District / City Response to Recommendation 6 An Emergency Operations Plan specific to American Canyon is in the process of being drafted. Our goal is to have the plan adopted by the council prior to the August 2008 County-wide Earthquake scenario functional exercise. As a part of the overall Emergency Operations plan, the Fire Chief is also in the process of developing Priority and Mass Medication plans and Flu Pandemic plans specific to the community of American Canyon. With the opening of the new Public Safety Facility in July 2007, the community has its first dedicated Emergency Operations Center (EOC) designed for that function located in an essential services building. The American Canyon Fire and Police Chief's are also participating in a County-wide shared mass emergency notification system.

R8

That all Municipal Fire Departments conform to the recommendation of the National Fire Protection Association regarding the number of firefighting personnel on engines responding to a fire call. Fire District / City Response to Recommendation 8: NFPA 1710 is a standard established in 2001 that sets minimum criteria for effectiveness and efficiency of emergency operations to protect the safety of the Public and Fire Department employees. The services covered in 1710 include, but are not limited to, fire suppression and emergency medical operations. The standard describes requirements for delivery of services, response capabilities, incident management, and strategy. . * • Key points identified in NFPA 1710 are as follows: minimum engine and truck staffing staffing for BLS response and staffing for ALS response Fire departments must be capable of establishing a Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) at all incidents. Fire departments must staff chief's aide positions. Response times of 4 minutes for the first arriving fire unit and/or the arrival of the full alarm assignment in 8 minutes. Fire departments must be capable of establishing incident command, water supply, attacks line(s), backup line(s), search and rescue team(s), ventilation team(s) and RIT at all structural fires; these "benchmark" requirements are based upon a 2000 square foot detached single family dwelling. Urban FD's will have to increase the requirements according to the occupancies & hazards in their community. minimum requirements for health and safety, incident management, training, communications and pre-incident planning. Fire departments must inform the public about their response capabilities and the consequences of not meeting this specified deployment criteria. The American Canyon Fire Protection District recognizes the value of complying with NFPA 1710 guidelines and is making efforts to reach all of the benchmarks created by the standard for measuring career fire department performance and staffing levels. One of the biggest misconceptions about NFPA 1710 is that it requires four-person staffing of every apparatus. In fact, NFPA 1710's definition of company in section 3.8.1 indicates that the engine-company complement may arrive on different pieces of apparatus as long as they are dispatched and arrive at the same time, continuously operate together and are managed by one company officer. For example, a two-person engine and two-person medic dispatched at the same time and arriving together would be in compliance. Mutual aid and automatic-aid agreements also may be used to comply. Due to budget limitations, it is currently necessary to utilize available staffing in a way that enhances our capability to respond to a second simultaneous call in District (72% medical aids) by staffing more than one apparatus. . . . The following are corrections to the 2007-2008 Grand Jury Report: - American Canyon Fire District Personnel Fire Chief • Assistant Fire Chief "A" Shift 1 Captain 1 Engineer 3 Firefighters 1 Captain "B" Shift 1 Engineer 4 Firefighters 2 Captains "C" Shift 3 Firefighters Reserve Firefighters available as needed ٠ Corrections Fire Chief Assistant Fire Chief "A" Shift 2 Captains 3 Firefighters (Driver-operator qualified) "B" Shift 2 Captains 3 Firefighters (Driver-operator qualified) 2 Captains "C" Shift 3 Firefighters (Driver-operator qualified) Reserve Firefighters - maximum of 20 . . . . . . /10 Paragraph 1 One Administrative Assistant supports the firefighter personnel. Firefighter assignments are one to two Fire Captains per shift, 48 hours on, 96 hours off; five to six firefighters per shift 48 hours on, 96 hours off. A plan is in place to increase to six captains, two per shift. This change would allow for two responding vehicles with three firefighter personnel per vehicle. At the same time, there is a plan to consolidate the firefighter and engineer positions. There is also a plan to increase shift personnel to six firefighters per shift in 2009. Long-range plans call for a second fire facility to be constricted in an area west of Highway 29 in American Canyon. Corrections One Administrative Assistant supports the firefighter personnel. Firefighter assignments are 2 Fire Captains and 3 firefighter/driver-operators per shift 48 hours on, 96 hours off. Five personnel are assigned to each shift with a minimum staffing of four. The engineer classification has been eliminated. Long-range plans could call for a second fire facility to be constructed in an area west of Highway 29 in American Canyon. A plan to increase shift personnel to six firefighters in 2009 has not been adopted by the Board of Directors. Paragraph 2 - Residency requirement There is a residency requirement for firefighters to live within 50 miles and be available for callbacks. Correction There is no residency and/or callback requirement. Paragraph 2 - Automatic Aid Automatic aid response from Vallejo and Napa provides eight more firefighting personnel and additional equipment in response to an emergency incident. Correction The Fire District has separate automatic aid agreements with Vallejo and Cal Fire / Napa County that provide additional staffing and equipment in the event of structure fires or major vehicle accidents. - Equipment 2 swiftwater rescue boats with diving team