To the editor:<\/p>\n
I am responding to the July 17 letter to the editor \u201cBefore asking taxpayers for more, show them the results.\u201d The author claims he analyzed Cape Coral Fire Department operational data including response times to determine additional funding is questionable.<\/p>\n
If the writer had actually compared Cape Coral Fire Department response times with NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 1710, the internationally recognized standard for career fire department operations and sets strict response time benchmarks, he would have found the Cape Coral Fire Department has severe problems, as listed below.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral 2025 Report NFPA 1710<\/p>\n
Dispatch \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2:26\t No more than 64 seconds, <\/p>\n
95% of the time.<\/p>\n
Turn Out. 1:50\t Firefighters should be suited <\/p>\n
and in their apparatus within <\/p>\n
80 seconds for fire <\/p>\n
responses and 60 seconds <\/p>\n
for EMS calls.<\/p>\n
Travel\t 7:26\t First responders should arrive <\/p>\n
on the scene within 240 <\/p>\n
seconds (4 minutes) for fire <\/p>\n
suppression and EMS incidents, <\/p>\n
90% of the time.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral\u2019s response time deficiencies may be related to the fact that they respond to a tremendous number of EMS (Emergency Medical Service) assist calls, many of which result in reports of \u201cno emergency here\u201d or \u201cno victims found\u201d. There is a high likelihood that if an actual emergency is reported the closest fire apparatus are not available because they have been dispatched to one of these nuisance calls.<\/p>\n
Dennis McCloskey<\/p>\n
Cape Coral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I am responding to the July 17 letter to the editor \u201cBefore asking taxpayers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-353353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}