3. Business Case
! Size and scalable opportunity
! Over 30,000 Fire stations in the U.S.
! Whitespace. “Green” changes low priority
4. • 4 fire stations
Fire stations in Monterey
• Serving 30,000 - 70,000
people
• Controlled by the City of
Monterey Government
• No current environmental
initiatives
• No current environmental
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
• Use of water and foam limited
• Paid with tax dollars; not private money
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6. What's in Monterey's fire stations?
• Staff of 16
• 1 Rescue Truck
• 7 pumping engines
• 1 Hazardous Materials Trailer
• 1 Fire boat
7. Upstream
• Trucks
• Equipment (cheaper equipment is not green)
• Foam
• Chemicals
• Water
8. Midstream & environmental impact
• Air emissions from the truck (5600 annual calls)
• Average of 10 mile radius
• Spills
• Water usage
• 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
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10. Next Steps
• Change staff and house
call vehicles
• Purchase of low sulfur
diesel engines
• Remove underground
tanks
• Leed certified building
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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
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