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 certification system, providing third-party
verification 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.
