Pismo Beach Fire Department
Report to the City Council
By BC Paul Lee
June 7, 2022
1 X.X Presentation Name of Item 2018-XX-XX
Emergency Response by Type –
April 2021 through April 2022
2 Year Incident Review
⚫2022 had 1,457 calls for service
⚫Same call volume as last year
⚫Trends
⚫Medical Aids up 4% at 74% call volume
⚫Fire Alarms down 21%
⚫Vehicle Accidents up 41%
⚫Downtown generates 22% of call volume up 2%
⚫Ventana generates the next highest at 12%
3 Lifeguards
4 Lifeguards
5 Call Types 2019 2020 2021 *2022
Water Rescue 20 43 20 1
Preventatives 2790 6023 5164 207
Medicals 79 108 78 3
Missing Persons 63 76 26 3
Ordinance 2696 5413 1821 84
*2022 opening weekend (05/27/22 05/30/22)
Lifeguards
⚫2022 Recruiting CAL POLY
⚫Early Hire
⚫Spaced training
⚫More experience peak season
6 Lifeguards
⚫Lead Lifeguard
⚫1st Lead Lifeguard Academy
⚫Investing In Our Staff
⚫2 Year Outlook
⚫Watch Tower
7 Junior Lifeguard Program
8 Junior Lifeguard Program
⚫74 Junior Lifeguard participants
⚫3-week program with 2 modules
⚫1 Lead JG Instructor
⚫6 Junior Lifeguard Instructors, all Pismo Beach Lifeguards. 9 Prevention
⚫Events SEC
⚫Surf Events
⚫4th of July
⚫CAL FIRE Law Enforcement
⚫Sidewalk CPR
⚫City Wide Weed Inspections
⚫Fuels Reduction
10 Equipment
⚫New E-64
⚫Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
⚫Lifeguard Tower
⚫Lifeguard Truck
11 Vegetation Management Program VMP
12 ⚫CAL FIRE Fuels Battalion Projects
⚫Long Cyn RX Burn
⚫Long Cyn Shaded Fuel Break
⚫Light House Unit 2
⚫Cave/Bluffs/Ontario Comm Site
Vegetation Management Program VMP
13 ⚫Pismo Preserve Crew Days
⚫Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
⚫Pismo Beach Plan
Grants
⚫FSC $35,000 CWPP
⚫OHV Radios $10,000
⚫OTS Jaws of Life $32,000
14 Thank You
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