Fire station eco audit
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The document summarizes a sustainability report for fire stations in Monterey, California. It notes that there are over 30,000 fire stations in the US, representing an opportunity to implement green changes. The Monterey fire department has 4 stations serving 30,000-70,000 people. The report evaluates the environmental impacts of station operations like air emissions from diesel trucks, water usage, and chemical spills. It proposes initial steps like utilizing smaller electric vehicles for calls, adopting a recycling program, and using non-toxic foam. Further steps include purchasing low-sulfur diesel engines and removing underground fuel tanks. Barriers to implementing changes include bureaucracy, limited budgets, and the need to follow federal guidelines.
Fire station eco audit
- 1. Fire Station Sustainability Report By: Juan, Lotte, and Zain IMTG 8625 Environment, Business Strategy, and Sustainability Professor Bruce Paton
- 2. Why focus on fire stations?
- 3. Business Case Size and scalable opportunity Over 30,000 Fire stations in the U.S. Whitespace. ¡°Green¡± changes low priority
- 4. Fire Stations in Monterey 4 fire stations Serving 30,000 - 70,000 people Controlled by the City of Monterey Government No current environmental initiatives Start with pilot program.
- 5. How Do Fire Stations Operate? All risk department Each Firefighter is an EMT 1 engine for medical calls / 2 for fires 16 calls a day on average What areas they are covering All calls from 911 70 % of calls- public assistance calls They go instead of the ambulance as ambulance service is private, hence: costly 16 calls per day They bring their 'toolbox' everywhere, in case there's a fire somewhere else
- 6. What's in Monterey's Fire Stations? Staff of 16 1 Rescue Truck 7 pumping engines 1 Hazardous Materials Trailer 1 Fire boat 1 100' Quint Aerial tractor-drawn Tiller Truck * 1 Rescue truck 1 Hazardous Materials trailer - 1 Command vehicle, - 4 Staff vehicles - 1 Air Compressor Trailer - Fire Boat moored at the breakwater. * All trucks are diesel, give 8 miles per gallon. Hold 500 gallons of water. Renewed every 10 years. Cost about $500,000 1 Type 3 Wildland Unit - 1 Urban Search & Rescue Trailer with equipment
- 7. Upstream Trucks Equipment (cheaper equipment is not green) Foam Chemicals Water This is the upstream/supplies. We're going to focus on the production/providing of the service. (which happens at the same time)
- 8. Midstream & Environmental Impacts Air emissions from the truck (5600 annual calls) Average of 10 mile radius Spills Water usage Noise As we are talking about a service, we invented a new term: midstream. A service is produced when it is consumed, so it is hard to divide the two (production/downstream). The impact- Air emissions (the use of diesel) Spills from the toxic chemicals- the foam they use for killing the fires Water Noise- seriously, is it really necessary with that much noise?
- 9. Initial Steps ? Limit the fire truck trips ? Recycling pick-up program for fire stations o Traditional o Chemical and toxic equipment ? Mixture of water and a non-toxic, non-polluting foam concentrate Use a smaller car for the housecalls, best case scenario: a hybrid/el car Recycling as much as possible, also the cars- where do the cars go when they are terminated? The new mix of water and non-toxic foam is more efficient than water only The non-toxic, non-polluting foam can replace the traditional foam completely No usage of CO2
- 10. Next Steps ? Change and house call staff vehicles ? Purchase of low sulfur diesel engines ? Remove underground tanks ? Leed certified building ? Change staff and house call vehicles to zero emission vehicles. ? Lower emissions through purchase of low sulfur diesel engines for new trucks. ? Removal of underground gasoline and diesel tanks to reduce likelihood of soil contamination. ? Leed certified buildings- a package: water, lightning, power Internationally recognized green building certi?cation system, providing third-party veri?cation that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2?emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
- 11. Barriers of Implementation Bureaucracy Must follow federal guideline Under the control of the city Limited budget 1) Budget cuts 2) Hiring freeze 3) Lay offs 4) Hard to justify front-loaded expenses
- 12. How To Make This Happen? ? Partnering with other stakeholders, i.e. o U.S. Green Building Council, use conferences ? Small wins ? Part of bigger initiative- Eco city ? Use tourist city advantage Cannery Row.
- 13. ORGANIZATION
- 14. Cost Structure Trends Revenue capacity Debt capacity Demographics
- 17. Thank You Q&A