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FIGURES
FIGURE 3-1: City of Morgan Hill Table of Organization ...............................................................................6
FIGURE 3-2: South Santa Clara County Fire District .....................................................................................7
FIGURE 3-3: Morgan Hill and SSCCFD Fire Stations ......................................................................................9
FIGURE 3-4: CAL FIRE Platoon Structure.......................................................................................................10
FIGURE 4-1: Low-Risk Response, Exterior Fire Attack .................................................................................23
FIGURE 4-2: Moderate Risk Response-Interior Fire Attack ........................................................................24
FIGURE 5-1: Fire Propagation Curve ............................................................................................................40
FIGURE 5-2: City and District Station Locations and Travel Times (red = 240 seconds)......................47
FIGURE 5-3: City and District Station Locations and Travel Times (green = 360 seconds) .................48
FIGURE 5-4: City and District Station Locations and Travel Times (blue = 480 seconds)....................49
FIGURE 5-5: CAL FIRE Fire Runs ......................................................................................................................50
FIGURE 5-6: CAL FIRE EMS Runs .....................................................................................................................51
FIGURE 5-7: CAL FIRE Other Runs ..................................................................................................................52
FIGURE 8-1: Fire Calls by Type – Morgan Hill Fire Department ................................................................69
FIGURE 8-2: Fire Calls by Type – South Santa Clara County Fire District................................................69
FIGURE 8-3: Average Calls per Day, by Month..........................................................................................73
FIGURE 8-4: Calls by Hour of Day..................................................................................................................74
FIGURE 8-5: Number of Units Dispatched to Calls .....................................................................................75
FIGURE 8-6: Average Response Times of First Arriving Unit, by Call Type – MHFD ...............................94
FIGURE 8-7: Average Response Times of First Arriving Unit, by Call Type – SSCCFD ...........................94
FIGURE 8-8: Average Response Time of First Arriving Unit, by Hour of Day–MHFD..............................99
FIGURE 8-9: Average Response Time of First Arriving Unit, by Hour of Day–SSCCFD ..........................99
FIGURE 8-10: Cumulative Distribution of Response Time – First Arriving Unit – EMS .......................... 101
FIGURE 8-11: Cumulative Distribution of Response Time – First Arriving Unit – Structure and Outside
Fires.................................................................................................................................................................. 102