Fire and Health Sweating the asset

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Fire and Health Sweating the asset

• Mike Hagen
• Deputy Chief Fire officer

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We are going to cover

• fire station of the future-today
• Less than 5 of our time at emergency incidents
• Sweating the asset-about releasing an untapped
  resource into our communities
• Two areas-crime and health
• Relationship with 2012 Olympics
• Why?-50 reduction in fire deaths and 40
  reduction in ASB fires

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The Pledge To go the extra mile. Fire
station of the future-today
Princes Trust/ EARLY
Firefit kids
Firefit families
Health kicks
Bikesafe
Embedded Firefighters
Beacon/LIFE-young and adults
FIRE STN
Boxing
STAMP-D2A
Wirral Heartbeat
World FF Games-legacy
Climbing Walls
Dig It Market Garden
Fire Support Network
D of E
Streetcage Soccer
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Tackling health inequality

• Fire-fighters as Role Models
• Fire Stations as health centres
• Home Fire Safety Checks Single Assessments -
  front-line flexibility
• Support of over 40 community safety advocates

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ASB and Crime reduction

• Anti-social behaviour Joint task force Operates
  from a Police Station
• Diversion - Streetcage soccer
• Operation Trojan
• Violent attacks-halved in two years

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So what?

• Fire deaths down by half
• Deliberate fire down by 40
• Hoax calls down by 30
• Attacks down by 70
• 400,000 home fire safety checks targeted at the
  most vulnerable
• Plus-huge cross cut to a wide range of
  partner/community priorities

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• World Fire-fighter games-
• 73 sports
• 2000 staff and volunteers
• 3000 competitors
• 38 nations represented
• 2.8 M economic impact
• Biggest sporting event since the Commonwealth
  games
• Fire service can deliver the people and places to
  support the Olympics-
• Fire fighterolympianpowerful brand

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CONCLUSION

• Sweating the asset-delivering more with less
  resources
• The fire service is a powerful brand-effective in
  reducing crime and anti-social behaviour and
  tackling health inequality.
• The world fire-fighter games is a blueprint for
  volunteering for London 2012.

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