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5. Personnel from Engine-1 will be utilized to cover necessary duties/responses when Rescue-1, Ladder-1, and/or Brush-1 are needed. Implementation of this plan is vitally important so that we can do all we can to ensure everyday that, "Everybody goes home". To help us accomplish this daily task, we must do whatever is necessary and wrthin our power to: • Improve the overall conditions for safety (i.e., supervision, staffing, PF's, etc.), 0 Compensate for the mandated staffing reductions of the past, • Compensate for the City's failure to help us retain qualified and trained personnel, • Stem the continued exodus of tenured and experienced veterans, • Improve the confidence and trust within the ranks of the PFD, • Improve the overall morale of the PFD. Other benefits to this plan also include: • To help us comply with the basic NFPA recommendation of at least (4) persons to each Engine Company as validated by various accredited staffing studies (e.g., the 1984 Dallas Study which proved that a(4) person Engine Company is the most efficient). • To help us to improve our capacity to properly supervise our employees. This is especially important due to the fact, as stated above, that we now have so many new and inexperienced firefighters. • To help us improve the overall safety and effectiveness of operations. • To enhance our efforts in complying with the state mandated 2IN2 OUT law and NIMS (National Incident Management System) requirements that the City of Paris has officially adopted. Our rationale for temporarily moving out of Fire Station No. 2 includes: • Station No. 1 is our primary station which houses administration and training. • St-3 services the bulk of the industry, is too isolated, has a larger service district, and would have the most negative impact. • Historically, E-1, E-3, and E-4, individually, respond to more calls than E-2. We fully expect there may be those who will question our reasoning and purpose, especially by citizens living within the old Fire Response District 2. However, we feel we have no choice smce firefighter and citizen safety must take precedence. We recognize that splitting this district between Stations 1 and 4 may well impact the initial apparatus response time to some areas within the district; however, the effective response time is more important. The first on-scene engine company will be able to implement immediate offensive and aggressive mitigation efforts with a complete complement of personnel instead of having to wait for successive responders. This provides for improved mitigation capability. We believe, once we have been able to provide the rationale behind our decisions and our citizens actually see how the new system provides for better effectiveness, efficiency, and safety, they will wholeheartedly support our efforts. As stated above, this is only a temporary plan as we absolutely affirm that the current (4) station alignment is still vital for the overall optimum provision of service and safety to the City of Paris. However, we are compelled to regroup in order to protect our own. Should the City choose to fund the additional (18) firefighters necessary to do so, we would move back into Fire Station No. 2. Page 2 of 2 ~ 0U(l372 r_ - _T.