A well-designed and located station is a thing of beauty. Many of these become iconic structures, integral to a vibrant community. Fire and EMS halls are celebrated as one of…
Municipalities come in all shapes and sizes and their boundaries are set for all kinds of reasons. These reasons do not include emergency response effectiveness. For one, populations don’t grow…
Response performance is the most common standard by which emergency services are judged. It’s integral to the evaluation of both ambulance and fire services. It drives investment, budget decisions, and…
Travel times are closely tied to response emergency performance. Planners have used them to locate stations for decades, and insurance companies use them to set home insurance premiums. Your drive…
Emergency service stations are a critical component of any response service. Stations are costly to build, and finding land in an ideal location is a challenging endeavour. If you are…
This question is being asked more and more frequently by cash-strapped city councils, congested health systems, and budget-conscious city managers. In many jurisdictions, the new fiscal realities mean that this…