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Nashua Fire Rescue should plan for significant fire station maintenance and renovations in the coming
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34. Nashua Fire Rescue should consider the possible future need to make the communications compliant
with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Center is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title Il, in that they do not have an
elevator to the Center, which is located on the second floor.*

35. Nashua Fire Rescue should install a bollard around the generator in the parking lot at the
Communications Center.

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The Nashua Fire Rescue Training and Safety Division needs at least one additional instructor.

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Nashua Fire Rescue should take steps to ensure that firefighters and command staff have
comprehensive, accurate information readily at hand to identify hazards, direct tactical operations,
and use built-in fire-resistive features by purchasing software that is designed for this purpose.

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» When the total average time off per FTE (360) is subtracted from the total annual hours per FTE
(2,184), the result is an average of 1,824 hours per year actually worked.

= By dividing total annual hours scheduled (2,184) by hours actually worked (2,824), a relief factor of
1.2% is achieved.

« This results in a total of 176 operational FTEs or 44 FTEs per shift using the 1.2% relief factor.

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18. Nashua Fire Rescue should modify its current alarm assignments to satisfy critical staffing functions
for fires in occupancies such as strip malls and garden apartments.

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(6) For high-rise, 480 seconds or less travel time for the deployment of an initial full alarm
assignment at a fire suppression incident.

At the time of ESCI’s site visit, Nashua Fire Rescue was not tracking and monitoring these
performance metrics.

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14. Nashua Fire Rescue should work toward compliance with NFPA 1710 4.1.2.1. The Department shall
establish the following performance objectives for the first-due response zones that are identified by
the AHjJ:

(3) *240 seconds or less travel time for the arrival of the first engine company at a fire suppression
incident.