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Move-Up Recommendations

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For most fire departments, the location of stations across your jurisdiction was typically laid out to meet NFPA response standards. Over time, however, communities change and develop often leaving the configuration less than optimal. This evolutionary inefficiency is compounded by a fluctuating increase in call volume that more frequently finds crews out of quarters. Then, when resources are committed for long periods, the stress on the system becomes even more apparent. While the effect of missing response numbers can be minimized with a 90th percentile score, it is more difficult to obtain forgiveness from an individual citizen whose only interaction happens to be one of your exceptions.
 
Given unlimited reserves, every station could be staffed with multiple crews, but that is seldom our reality. Allocating the limited resources available right now in preparation for every likely response is not simple. Out of habit, we tend to move the same apparatus up when a busy station goes dark. We seldom consider, or have the tools that allow us to know, if filling that recognized gap is actually improving our overall capabilities or not. In some cases, we may make the situation worse by moving an apparatus from an immediate potential hotspot to fill an apparent gap in 24/7-based coverage. When resource levels prevent adequate attention everywhere, it is critical to move the most appropriate apparatus to the most useful location. We must consider the time-sensitive dynamics of the risks we face.

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Emergency Medical Services and law enforcement are accustomed to dealing with scarce resources. These high-utilization units are often dictated assignments that are dynamically determined based on rules that anticipate near-future demand. Anticipating requests is a proven strategy to deal with scarcity. No one proposes posting a fire apparatus on a street-corner. However, we can do better at choosing when and where to move suppression resources to do the most good in less time. Recognizing that risk changes through the day allows us to model it to make better decisions.
 
The fire-focused configuration of MARVLIS recognizes the unique vehicle functions and crew dependencies to allow our decision engines to automate specific unit moves to specific stations with the option to delay those moves that fail to improve response preparedness.
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Only MARVLIS supports the full range of deployment strategies from static location planning of “first-due” areas to fully dynamic posting at the other extreme. Nearly every public safety agency, however, falls somewhere in between these extremes. Any automation solution should recognize the level of movement that keeps your crews and community safe and productive.

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BE WHERE YOU ARE NEEDED WITH MARVLIS!

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