Master Plan Nashua Fire Rescue, NH
Figure 80. Commitment Factors as Developed by Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire, 2016
Ideal Personnel can maintain training requirements and physical fitness
0.16-0.24 Commitment | and can consistently achieve response time benchmarks. Units are
Range available to the community more than 75% of the day.
Community availability and unit sustainability are not questioned.
0.25 System Stress | First-due units are responding to their assigned community 75% of
the time, and response benchmarks are rarely missed.
Evaluation The community served will experience delayed incident responses.
0.26-0.29 Just under 30% of the day, first-due ambulances are unavailable;
Range . . a) is
thus, neighboring responders will likely exceed goals.
Not Sustainable: Commitment Threshold—the community has less
than a 70% chance of timely emergency service and immediate
“Line in the relief is vital. Personnel assigned to units at or exceeding 0.3 may
Sand" show signs of fatigue and burnout and may be at increased risk of
errors. Required training and physical fitness sessions are not
consistently completed.
0.30
In, Figure 81, the UHUs of Nashua Fire Rescue units are displayed with their relative workloads from 2017
through 2019. While other units responded to incidents within the city during this time, their activity levels
of response were low, 1% or less, and not included in this figure.
Figure 81. Unit Hour Utilization 2017-2019
TO da)
Count Average Percentile
818 0:37:00 1:00:39 1.9% 504:22:07
770 0:37:06 0:59:30 1.8% 476:10:31
763 0:37:31 1:00:19 1.8% 477:09:53
870 0:33:30 0:58:58 1.8% 485:44:45
4631 0:13:39 0:22:33 4.0% 1054:02:46
7192 0:14:59 0:23:30 6.8% 1795:09:15
6416 0:14:56 0:22:40 6.1% 1596:27:51
3860 0:18:48 0:27:49 4.6% 1209:46:09
8977 0:15:09 0:22:37 8.6% 2267:36:14
5388 0:18:18 0:28:49 6.3% 1643:49:45
5739 0:15:31 0:24:20 5.6% 1483:30:49
5451 0:14:43 0:24:36 5.1% 1336:17:38
4512 0:14:36 0:22:40 4.2% 1098:31:52
2575 0:17:45 0:28:17 2.9% 762:03:58
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