Fire service standards are established by the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA); NFPA Standard 1710 addresses the performance measure of travel time and sets its standards by percentiles rather than averages. According to NFPA 1710: The fire department’s fire suppression resources shall be deployed to provide for the arrival of an engine company within a 240-second travel time to 90 percent of the incidents; in 2014 SMFD responded to 70% of the incidents within a 240-second travel time. When considering travel time, it is important to understand that travel time is affected by population density, traffic, construction zones, street closures, etc.
This dataset has the following 3 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | year | calendar_date | 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000 2004-01-01T00:00:00.000 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000 2011-01-01T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Number of Incidents | number_of_incidents | number | 12270 12600 14183 13414 13209 view top 100 |
| Average Response (seconds) | average_response | number | 240 273 288 289 265 view top 100 |