The OAFED is considered an NFPA 1720 department that desires to maintain components of an NFPA 1710 department, both in terms of staffing and response times, to best serve the fire/EMS district.
NFPA 1710: Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, EMS, and Special Operations Career Fire Departments.
Crew Size on Duty: Engine or Ladder: 4 Firefighters
ALS Ambulance: 2 Paramedics
BLS Ambulance: 2 EMTs
Hazard Deployment: Low Hazard: 15 Firefighters
Medium Hazard: 28 Firefighters
High Hazard: 43 Firefighters
Response Times: Alarm to Enroute: 1 minute 20 seconds for fire apparatus
1 minute for ambulances
En route to Onscene: 4 minutes for fire apparatus
NFPA 1720: Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, EMS, and Special Operations Volunteer Fire Departments.
NFPA 1720 applies to volunteers who typically don’t have personnel on duty in stations and instead respond to page-out from home, work, or elsewhere. It is this fact of volunteer response that introduces a key variable into the picture. Volunteers cannot guarantee availability like career, on-duty staff can do, unless the volunteers are in the station when alerted. In this standard response, the goal criteria are very different and intended to reflect the nature of a volunteer response system.
Urban Zones with >1000 people/sq. mile: 15 staff to have water on a fire in 9 minutes 90% of the time.
Suburban Zones with 500-1,000 people/sq. Mile: 10 staff to have water in a fire in 10 minutes 80% of the time.
Rural Zones with <500 people/sq mile: 6 staff to have water on the fire in 14 minutes 80% of the time.