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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Municipal Services and Natural Features • Habitat for Humanity, and • Inmate and community squad labor. FIRE SERVICE The City of Paris provides fire service as part of the City Public Safety Department. The City provides first-due fire service within the City corporate limits and rescue service countywide in conjunction with the local Emergency Medical Service. Existing Facilities and Service. The Paris Fire Department maintains three front line Engines with 3-man staffing in three stations. One rescue truck is at Station One staffed with 2 men, and a Deputy Fire Chief is at Station One as designated "Incident Commander". The Ladder truck is stationed at Station One but not staffed; however, if the Ladder is needed, one firefighter is dropped off Engine One to pull the Ladder. Following is a summary of fire service response procedures. When the Paris Emergency Dispatch Center receives a fire call, Engine 1 and Rescue 8 are dispatched from Station 1 then either Engine 2 or Engine 3 is dispatched depending on districts. Standard response on a structure fire is two Engine Companies and the Rescue Company. Target hazards, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and the downtown area, are dispatched all three Engine Companies, the Rescue Company, and the Ladder. The City has mutual aid agreements with the Volunteer fire departments in the county. The Volunteer Departments do not have the training and equipment required for structural firefighting. The closest mutual aid for structural assistance is over 50 miles away. The preferred design of any new station would allow living quarters for a 6-person staffing level (4 fire, 2 EMS). The total living area for this design would not exceed 3,250 square feet. Living area for a 4-person design would be approximately 3,000 square feet. The apparatus area would need 3,700 square feet with the recommendation that no less than a three-bay design be constructed. Fire, EMS, and Code Enforcement as of 2000 has administrative offices at the City Annex. This consists of one small wing and a shared part of the lobby. The duties and needs of the department have simply outgrown this space. There is no privacy for the conducting of business, no storage, and no room for layout work, and offices are so small that only two visitors can be seated. The total office handles hundreds of phone calls daily and has numerous walk-in persons needing assistance. This makes the lobby a very busy place, making it very hard to concentrate on EMS billing, code and property research, and general fire department work. Additionally, other departments using the building are cramped and separated. Fire protection for the City of Paris took a giant step forward - in the estimation of the Fire Chief - with the construction of Station One in 1997 at 1444 North Main. This was initially planned in 1990 and was completed last year. This construction was to be the beginning momentum to reconstruction of the department. S:\98288\WPN'ma1 rcpon 2-01.ik,c 29 B WR