AFD Annual Report Flashcards
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Mission
The Austin Fire Department is committed to creating safe and resilient communities through prevention, preparedness and effective emergency response.
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Vision
The Austin Fire Department sets the standard among public service agencies, serving the community through innovation and collaboration while honoring tradition and embracing inclusion, equity, and diversity for all.
(set standard, innovate/honor tradition & embrace inclusion)
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Chief Baker’s philosophy for an effective fire department.
Baker’s philosophy for an effective fire department begins with sound organizational principles, and includes a vision, mission, and core values developed by its members which guide its operation and its strategic goals, and shapes its organizational culture.
(org principles by members, guide strategies & shape culture)
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AFD has refocused our organizational priorities to 6 key areas:
AFD has refocused our organizational priorities to 6 key areas:
- Human Resources
- Emergency Response Readiness and Service Delivery
- Professional Development
- Facilities and Equipment/Technology and Supplies
- Customer Service Programs
- Public Information/Education/Relations
(human emerge, develop facilities serve education)
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How many members does AFD have?
Over 1200 men and women
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How many cadet classes graduated in 2019?
Two
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What strides did AFD make in terms of stations in 2019?
Opening of station 49
Significant strides addressing critical facility needs
Ongoing work to improve existing stations
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What did the city manager specifically highlight in terms of accomplishments in 2019?
The expansion of public safety wellness center.
wellbeing is good
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Austin Fire Department values
Integrity
Respect
Ownership
Discipline
ROID
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What did the daughter of a woman who AFD saved say?
What was the lady’s name?
Which crew helped her, what was her complaint?
Where was she transported?
My mother is still alive because of the work of first responders, hospital staff, and doctors. The world has real-life avengers, who are saving lives.
Christine Warner
Rescue 20, Engine 20 B shift, auto-ped
South Austin Medical Center (St. David’s)
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Fiscal year ‘19 budget
198,478,600
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How much did AFD’s budget grow in 2019 over 2018
2,765,766
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How many firefighters does AFD have?
1197
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How many civilians work for AFD?
118
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What is Austin’s population in the area that covers?
972,499
280 mi.²
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Name the kitten that was saved from the storm drain?
Tiger
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After getting saved from a storm drain what did Tiger do next? What unit helped Tiger out?
That wedged in the front dash of a car.
26C
(on c shift cause tiger is a cat)
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After 26s rescued the cat what did they do?
The put the dash back together
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What is AFD working with city leaders as well as internal and external stakeholders in process of adopting?
When is it scheduled to be complete?
Wildland urban interface (WUI) code
Late 2020
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What symposium did Austin conduct in 2019?
Our seventh annual wildfire preparedness symposium, focused on community and collaboration in preparing for wildfires.
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How many properties did AFD (WUI) protect in 2019, what is the value of those homes?
170 structures valued at more than $67 million
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How many Firewise communities, Community Firewise protection plans (CWPP) are there in Austin?
15 Firewise communities
almost 40 others adopting community fire wise protection plans
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How much of the Austin WUI footprint is covered by fire wise communities?
Over 50% of the high-risk wildland urban interface
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How many hours of wildland training were provided in 2019?
8400
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What other wild land-based accomplishments did AFD accomplish in 2019? 4
- Assisted Texas A&M Forest Service in establishing a temporary air tanker base at ABIA
- Created a countywide GIS data sets to analyze wildfire hazards and risk for both response and mitigation index
- Develop a prioritized risk analysis across the county and city to ensure fuel projects, education, and outreach are implemented in order of risk.
- Work with City’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management in developing the Travis County Wildfire Evacuation plan
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How has AFD prevention work to meet the needs of citizens and developers?
Expanding our participation in the expedited plan review team with the city’s development services department (DSD)
Put in place a second full team
Keep up with hydrogen flow testing
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What is the status of Fire Protection System Program joined with Compliance Engine
The program has significantly increased system compliance within the city.
In fiscal year 19 we verified 71% of the fire system compliance and are on course to reach 90% compliance with fiscal year 20.
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How many inspections did the Inspection Group complete?
30,000 inspections, with nearly 20,000 violations documented and corrected.
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How many submittals did the engineering group review?
10,824, and continues to support prevention inspections, special operations, ARFF, city of Austin transportation group, and special event groups on critical issues and projects.
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How many fire/arson investigators do we have and how many origin and cause investigation did they complete?
Nine fire/arson investigators
212 origin and cause investigations
(9 : 212)
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How many were intentionally set, and how many arrests were made, how many citations?
139 intentionally set fires
29 arrest
29 citations
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For fires determined to be arson, how many were cleared by arrest or citation? What percentage was that?
58 cases were cleared by arrest or citation
42%
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How many juveniles did we identify with some sort of fire setting behavior?
How many of those successfully completed our juvenile fire setters intervention program?
36 juveniles
14 completed JFIP
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How many arson dogs does AFD have?
What are their names?
Two
Smokey, Lieut. Elmore
Rae, Lieut. Jennings
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What did arson section personnel meet with Travis County district attorney office about
Developing documented procedures to categorize, retain, and destroy evidence collected by this section.
Including 20+ years worth of cases, with at least 2000 paper case files, evidence cans of fire debris,
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Who saved Johnny Atchinson?
Qunit 3A
Louis Jahn knocked down the stairs -service award
Ratoza and Capt. Ryan brought him out-metal of merit
specialist Parker found him- service award
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How many residential fire deaths occur in homes without a single working alarm
50%
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How many smoke detectors did community outreach install in 2019.
How many were installed during neighborhood canvassing events?
How many homes?
3400
1873 in eight neighborhood canvassing events
736 homes
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Number to call to get a smoke detector
-0299
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How many community relation events
Public education events
Apparatus request
1400 community relations events
186 pub ed
734 apparatus request
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What is the goal of the red Angels program?
To increase community knowledge of available resources offered through entities/organizations that would help residents become more self-sufficient and sustain a healthy lifestyle. The target areas for this program includes residents living in areas where the income levels are below the poverty level: Dove Springs, Dell Valley, Windsor Hills, Colony Park
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Who has read Angels partnered with?
How many people did read Angels help?
Meals on Wheels Go Austin Vamos Austin The Red Cross of Central Texas Travis County Central Health City of Austin Public Health Department
Helped 100 residents
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What award did firefighter LaPree for pulling the 2 men from the Cessna
Metal merit
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What station did we open in 2019?
Station 49 on Old San Antonio Rd. in Onion Creek
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How many fire/EMS stations are be being built over the next six years?
What phase of the locker room project/bunker gear storage did we begin in 2019?
Five
Phase 6 – the last phase
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Which stations were renovated in 2019
27, 28, 29, and 31
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2019 will is Austin’s call volume?
How many miles do we serve?
Over 92,000
280 miles served – not sure what that means
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What percentage of AFD’s calls are medical in nature?
70%
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How long is the AFD Academy?
How many hours of CE did Ed services deliver to how many firefighters?
28 week Academy
77,000 hours CE, 1100 firefighters
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What does medical operations do?
- Provides initial medical training
- continuing education
- procures and maintains emergency care equipment, such as AEDs, glucometers
- overseas AFD commitment to high-quality medical standards
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What does wellness do?
- Annual physical exams
- positively impacts physical and mental health via early detection and intervention
- Injured personnel rehabilitation
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What does safety do?
- Works to reduce firefighter injury through on scene monitoring/intervention at incidents
- Response to all injury events – assist personnel with seeking & receiving appropriate medical treatment
- Conducts initial investigation into firefighter injuries and collisions
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Name of the guy that we saved after rollover and CPR.
Who helped him?
How long after did he come by the station?
Bruno Boelstler
43A
1.5 months- that is kind of crazy
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How many people are in homeland security?
Two a Capt. and Lieut. assigned to the Austin regional intelligence Center (ARIC) and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
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How much air is in a SCBA bottle?
65 ft.³, enough to fly two hot air balloons
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How many fire trucks, at 750 gallons, would it take to fill up Barton Springs?
8400
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Where does spec ops respond?
The 10 county capital area council of governments, CAPCOG, region.
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Spec ops personnel have training in what four areas?
Hazardous materials
Water rescue
Technical rescue
Structural collapse
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What office manages the equipment, training, and support for the spec ops mission?
Special Operations/Homeland Security Office
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What is facilities responsible for?
Handles all routine and urgent building maintenance and facility equipment repairs and/or replacements for AFD.
Responsible for the purchase, installation, repair, removal, and maintenance of the following: plumbing, electrical, carpentry: demolition, construction, and repair, HVAC, cubicle and office reconfiguration, parking lots.
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What does ops support do?
Develops, test, and purchases all operations firefighting and rescue equipment, and maintains and repairs $4M in hand tools and power tools.
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Who tracks and assist maintaining more than 200 support and light duty vehicles as well as all operations apparatus?
Ops support
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Each firefighter is required to complete how much workouts a year?
120 hours
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What is wildland mitigation/management mission?
Preventing wildfires the cooperation and participation in the city’s planning process and programs; public education and fuel management; and provides assistance and oversight during prescribed burns.
Also provides training community education and vegetation management programs.
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What is research and data analytics do?
Provides accurate data analytics mapping in order to provide executive leadership the ability to make meaningful, data-driven decisions for the organization. Coordinates department strategic planning and performance measures update meetings.
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Our standard supply hose line could reach the height of the state capital how many times?
244
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Who were the councilmembers in 2019
- Natasha Harper – Madison
- Dalia Garza
- Sabino Renteria
- Greg Casar
- Ann Kitchens
- James Flanagan
- Leslie Pool
- Page Ellis
- Kathy Tovo
- Allison Alter
