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Bozeman Fire Department - Montana 2006 Fire Protection Master Plan
Figure 60: Proposed Fire Station 6
The order of these medium term stations may be altered depending on the timing of development
near the hospital, and residential growth in area of Station 4 and Station 6. Fire and City Planning
Officials should work closely together to monitor the progress of development in each area to
coordinate the construction of the stations to precede the growth.
Long Term: Greater than Five-Years
Because of the projected high growth in service demand on the north side of the city that is beyond
the response time goal of the existing stations, a new station is recommended. The challenge in
locating a station within this area is three-fold. First, this area has a railroad mainline which can delay
emergency response as currently not all railroad crossings are served by trestles, bridges under or
overpasses. Adding these types of structures will greatly increase costs. Second, Interstate 90 can
provide rapid egress to areas to the extreme northeast and southwest, although this type of roadway
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limits the connectivity of local streets. Third, the existing arterial roadways in this area flow in a north
and south direction; the few arterials flowing east and west limit connectivity. This hampers the
capability of emergency response performance and coverage. It is recommended that as the City of
Bozeman grows, these issues should be of top concern in development planning.
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A station (Station 7) is therefore recommended on N. 7 near Flora Lane. This station has some
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redundancy coincidently with Station 1 and 2 but captures an area just south of Interstate 90, off 19
Ave which currently has moderate to high service demand. With access to the freeway, it can
respond to the eastern side and the northwest corner of Bozeman easily. It can also access without
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railroad crossing delays because a bridge over the railroad exists at 7 and 19 Sts. The
northeastern side can be reach via Griffin Drive due to the stations proximity to this arterial street.
The following figure illustrates Station 7s proposed location and its response capability in four-
minutes of travel time.
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Figure 61: Proposed Fire Station 7
When the response capability areas of the existing and proposed stations are combined, the service
area is eighty-two percent covered, and nearly ninety percent of projected service demand is within
the response time objective of five minutes (4-minute travel, plus 1-minute turnout). The following
illustrates the projected service demand with the proposed facility deployment described in this
section.
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Figure 62: Proposed Facility Deployment Strategy
Earlier in this report it was determined that the current response time performance, though improving,
was not yet meeting the stated goal of arriving at of calls within five minutes (including
ninety percent
turnout time). Other factors that may routinely extend response time should be examined for possible
improvement. They include; call processing, turnout time, and other factors that may impede
response. Other factors affecting response times are concurrent calls and responding from alternate
locations such the other station or the training facility. Appropriately placed additional apparatus can
help lessen these types of delays in response times.
Apparatus
At full build out of Bozeman, an additional five fire engines will need to be acquired; one per each
proposed new station. No additional truck companies are required to meet the response needs of the
department. This is because of Station 2s access to main arterials for an acceptable level of
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