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- Source: Columbus Dispatch
- Date: September 21, 2008
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- Bylines:
Victor Black ,
Doug Caruso ,
Martin Rozenman ,
Jim Woods
- Topics:
Safety
- Data Types:
Local Data
- Description/Excerpt: The National Fire Protection Association wants departments to get to a fire within six minutes 90 percent of the time. Only two of 84 departments in the region -- Grandview Heights and Lancaster -- met that standard, according to a Dispatch analysis of more than 14,000 runs to building fires between 2003 and 2007.
The six-minute standard allows one minute for dispatchers to handle the call, one minute for four firefighters to get out the door and four minutes to travel to the fire. Not included in the six minutes is the time the fire has been burning before the call.
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