- Author
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Public Safety Systems Incorporated
- Title
- Long-Range Planning for the Fire Services: A Grant Request.
- Coporate
- Public Safety Systems, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA
- Report
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Grant Request
March 15, 1971
46 p.
- Keywords
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fire departments
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planning
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delphi method
- Abstract
- The eighteen month project envisioned by this grant request will innovatively apply knowledge and technique to the problem of predicting the changing character of a metropolitan fire department over the next twenty years. Long-range planning methodology (including techniques such as the Delphi Method) will be utilized to examine the probable future nature of both the dependent and independent variables affecting metropolitan fire protection operations. Typical, and probably quantifiable, variables might include: [*] The nature of the spectrum of incidents to which the fire services would be expected to respond; [*] The structure of the physical environment in which response must occur; [*] The capabilities of the technology available to the fire suppression agencies; [*] The expected roles of the non-fire service participants in the incident-response cycle (i.e., the Police, and the citizens); [*] The anticipated constraining influences of social pressures, politics, budgets, charters, and organizations. The project will address the planning cycle by means of goal sets which will be established in consideration of the options and constraints emerging from the projections mentioned above. It is reasonable to expect that specitic goals may be defined which are concerned with traditional and socially useful roles as well as new functions: [*] The prevention of fires; [*] The control of losses due to the action of fire; [*] The provision of emergency services to the public which are not directly associated with fire (e.g., ambulance service, search and rescue, etc.); [*] Participation in cooperative efforts in the maintenance of social stability.