City of Surrey's 2022-2026 Financial Plan

FIRE

• The Business Emergency Preparedness Program included delivery of 7,834 disaster recovery educational pamphlets; • Coordinated 24 Level 1 Emergency Support Service (“ESS”) responses for 98 displaced residents at single family dwellings. There were two ESS Level 2 team responses for 2021 which supported 321 displaced residents at multi-residential dwellings; and • Installed 459 smoke alarms at single-family residences during HomeSafe inspections, including 12,953 smoke alarm verification tests.

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

• Successfully executed four new multi-year regional fire dispatch fee for service agreements and transitioned those new clients, made up of nine agencies, to our service. Operating a well-managed in-house Dispatch Services unit, strategically allows for increased control of quality and costs of service for Surrey and client agencies;and • In addition to safely completing all planned annual training of Fire staff through the Central Training Facility, two major training clients renewed facility lease agreements to maximize a return on investment in the Central Training Facility.

Surrey Fire Regional Dispatch Centre

ECOSYSTEMS

• Published three research articles and/or papers illustrating the evidence-based decision making used for strategic planning and emergency activity. Topics included: Traumatic Falls and Lift Assists in Surrey, Distressed Property: Community Risk Reduction in Surrey, and Hiring Schedule Optimization; and • Streamlined the process for fuel consumption reporting to improve analysis of the anti-idling power unit’s technology compared to the traditional apparatus. This will bolster data driven decision making surrounding the ongoing procurement of apparatus equipped with anti-idling units. The investments in these units aim to minimize fuel use in support of anti-idling and the City’s aim to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

City of Surrey | 2022—2026 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Fire

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