GIS Mapping
This area of the Fire Department consists of Justin Platt, Senior GIS
Technician and Robert P. Perez, GIS Technician. They are responsible for
creating and updating preplan maps (apartments, trailers, schools and local
businesses) and plat maps used in responding to Fire and Medical incidents.
They also create GIS based maps to show Fire Station Locations (present and
future), Battalion Areas, Call Volume per Fire Apparatus within the City
Limits and other maps as required by teams and management. Mapping also
provides support for the CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system by building
and maintaining a portion of the geographic data used on the CAD map.
Software used in a majority of the work:
AutoDesk Map 3d 2008
ArcGIS 9.3
FireView 4.3
Other graphic and digital production software as required.
Current duties include:
- Working on updating the current preplans of the local businesses,
hospitals etc. with new additions.
- Maintain all of the schools within the Mesa city limits in
AutoCAD for use in the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) System Map.
- Converting manual drawn preplan maps into AutoCAD and placing them
into the CAD System Map.
- Geospatial representation of Fire and EMS services provided to aid
in reporting, planning and other activities as needed.
- Use of
FireView
software to complete tasks, such as incident analysis, station location
coverage analysis, spatial queries, and incident mapping.
- Perform Network Analysis to assist Fire
Chief with station location and coverage analysis.
- Working with the Deployment team to.se short and long term
solutions for the fire service needs of The City of Mesa as it
continues to grow and emergency service calls increase.
Fire Station Locations
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The following documents are in PDF format:
Battalion Areas 702KB
Call Volume for the Year
2009 1105KB
Call Volume for the Year
2008 1203KB
Call Volume for the Year
2007 2446KB
Call Volume for the Year
2006 2434KB
Call Volume for the Year
2005 948KB
Call Volume for the Year
2004 923KB
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