Sussex Fire Service Review
December 04, 2024
Sussex Council has received its final report on the Fire Service Review (FSR) from the Loomex Group at its special meeting of Council held at Town Hall on December 03, 2024. The FSR project had commissioned the review and the following deliverables:
• To identify and evaluate the current and anticipated fire protection needs in Sussex and its contracted fire service areas.
• To assess the fire protection services that Sussex and its contracted fire service areas currently receives.
• To provide data that Sussex can use to make informed decisions about the safety of its residents, businesses, visitors, and firefighters, and;
• To provide strategies and identify resources that Sussex can use to manage its current and anticipated fire protection needs adequately and cost-effectively.
The Council of Sussex and the Sussex Fire Department can reference this FSR when making policy, organizational, capital, and operational decisions over the next ten or more years. Click Here to view our FSR in its entirety.
As part of the Town’s FSR Sussex contracted The Loomex Group to develop a Community Risk Reduction Plan (“CRRP”) in 2024. The CRRP project had the following objectives:
• To ensure Sussex complies with the standards of NFPA 1300, which advises every community to conduct a CRRP every five years.
• To identify and examine the public safety risks in Sussex from a fire services perspective, and;
• To recommend strategies that Sussex and the Sussex Fire Department can use to mitigate the Town’s public safety risks.
In accordance with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 1300, there are nine community profiles that must be reviewed when developing a CRRP. The Loomex Group completed those reviews by collecting various statistics about Sussex and then evaluating that information as per the instructions provided by NFPA 1300 and other industry guidelines.
In addition to reviewing statistics, The Loomex Group conducted site visits and met with stakeholders from Sussex in order to gain first-hand insights about the current and potential public safety risks in the community. Finally, The Loomex Group used a risk assessment tool to calculate the severity of each public safety risk it identified in Sussex. The Loomex Group then evaluated the administrative and operational concerns associated with each threat.
Click Here to view our CRRP in its entirety.
For further information please contact Scott M. Hatcher, P. Eng, CAO at Town Hall during normal business hours.
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