Today I received the following email from Unknown: “Charlie, With all due respect your post and attitudes
are becoming incredibly immature with people who disagree with you as well as
unbelievable intellectually dishonest. I
am confused as to why you would attempt to lay fault for Arlington not being an
ISO 1 on a single firemen, when that is solely at the feet of the City
Management. Furthermore, it might be
time for Arlington's leadership to spend some time in self reflections. Not
only is Fort Worth rated as an ISO 1 City, but so are your neighbors to the
east, Grand Prairie.”
The ISO stands for Insurance Service Office which is a for
profit organization that looks at various Fire Departments and rates their
attributes. This is an antiquated system
that many insurance companies don’t use any more. The largest underwriter in the U.S. is State
Farm Insurance and they use a system called Public Protection Classification
which divides the city into zip codes.
The ISO rating uses four main classifications: (1) Emergency Communications 10 pts, (2) Fire
Department 50 pts. (3) Water Supply 40 pts and extra points for (4) Community
Risk Reduction. An ISO difference from a
1 rating to a 2 rating does not change insurance rates of residences 1 penny.
So let’s look at each category: (1) Emergency
Communications, Arlington has an exemplary communications
system that is accredited every 3 yrs.
We updated our communication 2 yrs. ago with a new digital
communications system and is one of six cities in the U.S. with EMAP accreditation.
(2) Fire Department, This has to do with mostly training type/personnel
and response times. When it comes to our
firefighters and department I will stack them up against any department in the
U.S. (3) Water Supply This mostly
deals with flow supply for fire suppression, and the number of fire hydrants
near suppression points. Community
Risk Reduction, these extra points
deal with fire prevention, safety education, and investigation. Now let’s look at the last ISO rating
accomplished in Arlington. The score was
84.4. Communications received 7.6
pts. Water received 36.2 pts. but the
biggest reduction was the Fire Department itself with a 38.7 pt. rating out of
50 possible pts. The biggest reduction
was in the amount of training per firefighter.
This would indicate that the Fire Chief and the Firefighters aren’t
doing enough, right? Wrong! The last report was accomplished in 2007
before Don Crowson was the Chief. The
remaining points were added in community risk.
What I am saying is that we have a great fire department in
this city and Civil Service will do nothing to improve it and everything to
tear it down. One bad apple can spoil
the barrel. Civil Service allows for Permanent
Employment. Nobody Deserves Permanent
Employment!! VOTE NO ON CIVIL SERVICE IN
MAY.
Now let's discuss reasons why Arlington Leadership DOESN'T need to, " spend any time in self reflection."
Now let's discuss reasons why Arlington Leadership DOESN'T need to, " spend any time in self reflection."
Heart Safe Award: The City of Arlington became the first large city in Texas to be designated a HEART Safe Community. This was made possible through extensive efforts to increase cardiac arrest survivability. The city was recognized during the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council’s Semi-Annual Meeting.
AMA's Nathan Davis Award: Next month Chief Crowson will travel to Washington DC and receive the Nathan Davis Award. He will be nationally recognized for Outstanding Government Service as an individual who has made a difference in their community. Since 1989, the award has been an annual celebration of elected and career public servants on the federal, state and local levels, who have contributed greatly to public health, promoted the art and science of medicine, or developed a project to improve the health of a community or population.
EMAP Accreditation: Arlington is the sixth city in the nation to receive this accreditation on its own. The emergency management program uses the accreditation to prove the capabilities of their disaster preparedness and response systems, which results in stronger capabilities and accountability. Accreditation is a means of demonstrating, through program assessment, documentation and onsite assessment by an independent peer review team, that a program meets national standards EMAP is the only accreditation process for emergency management programs.
CALEA Accreditation: The purpose of CALEA’s Accreditation Programs is to improve the delivery of public safety services, primarily by: maintaining a body of standards, developed by public safety practitioners, covering a wide range of up-to-date public safety initiatives; establishing and administering an accreditation process; and recognizing professional excellence.
Community Health Program Outstanding Achievement Award from U.S. Council of Mayors: Arlington was one of five national cities with populations of 100,000 or more to receive the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award. The American Dream City was recognized for its Community Health Program, a voluntary, no-cost enrollment in-home paramedic preventative care service.
World Record for CPR Training: At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 Arlington broke the previous record when 4,626 eighth-graders converged on Cowboys Stadium to learn cardio-pulmonary resuscitation techniques as part of a citywide initiative called CPaRlington. Organizers invited every Arlington Independent School District eighth-grader to participate in this massive training exercise. A Guinness World Records official adjudicator witnessed the event and validated the achievement.
TML Municipal Excellence Award for Public Safety for AISD Fire Academy: The Texas Municipal League recognized Arlington for its groundbreaking Fire Academy program with a 2014 Municipal Excellence Award in Public Safety for cities with more than 25,000 residents. The honor distinguishes the City for its efforts, along with local partners, Tarrant County College and Arlington Independent School District, to develop a fire academy for high school students. The unique program trains high school students from Arlington’s six high schools on firefighting and emergency medical care and enables graduates to immediately enter the workforce after successfully completing the program.
Does Grand Prairie or Ft. Worth claim any of the above. Now let me say under no uncertain terms that the members of the AFF work for The Best Big City in the South (Money Magazine), you have a great job watching over the safety of Arlington residents, department Leadership is Nationally Recognized and you are paid handsomely for your efforts. It is about time you started appreciating what you have, and stop acting like children. YOU call Me, "incredibly immature and unbelievably intellectually dishonest."
VOTE NO FOR CIVIL SERVICE IN MAY, IT'S A UNION SCAM FOR PERMENANT EMPLOYMENT!
AMA's Nathan Davis Award: Next month Chief Crowson will travel to Washington DC and receive the Nathan Davis Award. He will be nationally recognized for Outstanding Government Service as an individual who has made a difference in their community. Since 1989, the award has been an annual celebration of elected and career public servants on the federal, state and local levels, who have contributed greatly to public health, promoted the art and science of medicine, or developed a project to improve the health of a community or population.
EMAP Accreditation: Arlington is the sixth city in the nation to receive this accreditation on its own. The emergency management program uses the accreditation to prove the capabilities of their disaster preparedness and response systems, which results in stronger capabilities and accountability. Accreditation is a means of demonstrating, through program assessment, documentation and onsite assessment by an independent peer review team, that a program meets national standards EMAP is the only accreditation process for emergency management programs.
CALEA Accreditation: The purpose of CALEA’s Accreditation Programs is to improve the delivery of public safety services, primarily by: maintaining a body of standards, developed by public safety practitioners, covering a wide range of up-to-date public safety initiatives; establishing and administering an accreditation process; and recognizing professional excellence.
Community Health Program Outstanding Achievement Award from U.S. Council of Mayors: Arlington was one of five national cities with populations of 100,000 or more to receive the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award. The American Dream City was recognized for its Community Health Program, a voluntary, no-cost enrollment in-home paramedic preventative care service.
World Record for CPR Training: At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 Arlington broke the previous record when 4,626 eighth-graders converged on Cowboys Stadium to learn cardio-pulmonary resuscitation techniques as part of a citywide initiative called CPaRlington. Organizers invited every Arlington Independent School District eighth-grader to participate in this massive training exercise. A Guinness World Records official adjudicator witnessed the event and validated the achievement.
TML Municipal Excellence Award for Public Safety for AISD Fire Academy: The Texas Municipal League recognized Arlington for its groundbreaking Fire Academy program with a 2014 Municipal Excellence Award in Public Safety for cities with more than 25,000 residents. The honor distinguishes the City for its efforts, along with local partners, Tarrant County College and Arlington Independent School District, to develop a fire academy for high school students. The unique program trains high school students from Arlington’s six high schools on firefighting and emergency medical care and enables graduates to immediately enter the workforce after successfully completing the program.
Does Grand Prairie or Ft. Worth claim any of the above. Now let me say under no uncertain terms that the members of the AFF work for The Best Big City in the South (Money Magazine), you have a great job watching over the safety of Arlington residents, department Leadership is Nationally Recognized and you are paid handsomely for your efforts. It is about time you started appreciating what you have, and stop acting like children. YOU call Me, "incredibly immature and unbelievably intellectually dishonest."
VOTE NO FOR CIVIL SERVICE IN MAY, IT'S A UNION SCAM FOR PERMENANT EMPLOYMENT!
