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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 19, 2013 Action Agenda Item No. 5-j SUBJECT: White Cross Fire Department Proposal To Construct Station #2, Purchase Tanker, and Increase Station Staffing DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 1. White Cross Fire Department Proposal 2. Station Location Map INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Groves; 245 -6140 Michael Talbert; 245 -2153 Chief Phillip Nasseri, 919 - 942 -1194 1 PURPOSE: To approve the proposal from White Cross Fire Department to construct a second station to be located at 2521 Neville Road, purchase a tanker, and increase staffing. BACKGROUND: This initiative was previously discussed with the BOCC in 2010. Currently the eastern part of the White Cross Fire District is rated as an Insurance Services Office (ISO) Class 10 area, considered unprotected property by insurance companies. By constructing Station #2 on Neville Road and placing the new tanker into service, White Cross will be able to cover all the homes that are currently unprotected in the eastern part of the district within five (5) road miles of this new fire station. This new station will improve 323 homes from an ISO Grade of 9E to an ISO Grade Seven (7), and it would improve 197 homes from an ISO Grade 10 to an ISO Grade Seven (7). This would leave 38 homes west of White Cross Road outside six (6) road miles of a fire station. White Cross suggests working with the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company to address these homes in the future, developing an agreement similar to the framework Eno Fire Department and Caldwell Fire department have recently implemented. An agreement to use Orange Grove Station #3 places these homes within six (6) road miles of that station. A new station will make it possible in the future for White Cross Fire to lower the current ISO Class Seven (7) rating for these homes to a Class Six (6) ISO rating, saving the residents additional money on their fire insurance premiums. It will also improve overall customer service, improve fire ground service capabilities and firefighter safety, and reduce response time for the first and second arriving units to the incident in the eastern half of the district. In addition, the new tanker will improve the availability of on -scene water supply during incidents. It will also place an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) closer to this area of the district for medical emergencies.