COMMUNITY RISK ASSESSMENT/ STANDARDS OF COVER MURRIETA FIRE & RESCUE

Wildland Fire Services Program

The department’s baseline statements reflect actual performance during 2017 to 2021. The department reliesontheuseof automaticaid from neighboring fire departmentstoprovideits ERF complement of personnel to high risk and very high risk incidents. These resources are immediately available as part of a seamless response system. The department’s actual baseline servicelevelperformanceisasfollows:

¹Two fires included: In the Tenaja Fire in 2019, units were already deployed via mutual aid request from Cal Fire and the times represent when the fire spread into the city; in the Liberty Fire in 2017, mutual aid units composed ERF.

All operations described below are based on the agency’s standard operating guidelines in the agency’sOperationsManual:

• The first-due unit, staffed with two firefighters and an officer, is capable of: establishing commandandinitiatingperimetercontrolorstructuredefense.

• ThelowriskERF,staffedwithfivefirefightersandofficers,iscapableof:maintainingcommand andperimetercontrolorstructuredefense,establishingawatersupply,andfiresuppression.

• The moderate risk ERF, staffed with 16 firefighters and officers, is capable of: establishing formal command, providing a water shuttle operation, fire attack, perimeter control, and structuredefense.

• ThehighriskERF,with34firefightersandofficers,iscapableof:Establishingunifiedcommand and divisions; continuing fire suppression, perimeter control, and structure defense

Page129