National City Public Safety Foundation

Description

To be fiscally responsible on how to manage our needed additional resources, the NCFD must look at innovative service delivery models that may provide a cost effective alternative to meet the ever increasing emergency calls for service. The NCFD will deploy the Squad to help reduce wear on our fleet of fire engines and our ladder truck, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace. The Squad will also augment our staff in order to meet our Mission of providing fire control, emergency medical service, rescue, fire prevention and education. The Squad will also help the department prepare for possible opportunities involving Community Paramedicine, which is in its infancy, but will involve first responders from the NCFD in the follow-up care and treatment of patients to better get them the definitive care they need.