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PRESENTATION CONCERNING THE 2018 BARRIE FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICE (BFES) ANNUAL REPORT
Cory Mainprize, Fire Chief/Director of Emergency Services, Sue Dawson, Deputy Fire Chief/Manager of Communications and Business Services and Carrie Clark, Assistant Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention and Public Education provided a presentation concerning the 2018 Barrie Fire and Emergency Service (BFES) Annual Report.
Fire Chief Mainprize, Deputy Fire Chief Dawson and Assistant Deputy Chief Clark discussed slides concerning the following topics:
• The 2018 highlights of the essential services provided to the community by the BFES;
• The BFES’s vision, mission, and values statements;
• An organizational chart structure of BFES;
• An overview on the BFES Branches: Operations; Training; Administration and Business; Emergency Management; and Fire Prevention and Public Education.
• The five Barrie Fire Station locations;
• Overviews concerning Fire Prevention and Public Education and Operations;
• Maps identifying areas of door to door alarm inspections, fire incidents by property loss, and fire emergency incidents by heat mapping;
• Graphs illustrating the percentages of emergency incidents in 2018 by Ward, type, and time allocation per incident;
• Charts comparing the yearly number of emergency incidents, the number of dollar loss by fire and the total dollars lost from fire;
• The 2018 BFES calls received and response times;
• An overview associated to operating and capital budgets;
• The challenges and opportunities for the BFES; and
• The 2019 Goals for the BFES.
Members of the Finance and Corporate Services asked a number of questions to the presenters and received responses.