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Fire and Emergency Medical Services Consulting
When it must be done right the first time
When your study must be done right, there's only one option. Citygate Associates, LLC is the single most experienced and relied-upon fire and emergency medical services consultancy in the Western U.S. Within recent years, Citygate has executed many of the largest fire service studies we know of, including for the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, and El Dorado, as well as the Cities of San Diego, Oakland, Stockton, and Pasadena and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District and both the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Many of these agencies have repeatedly relied upon Citygate for their fire and EMS needs.
Distinctive by Culture
Your department, your constituents, and your first responders are our first priority. Citygate Associates believes passionately that character and independent public service are interests that must be placed before our own. In other words, our service to you is our single most distinguishing feature in the marketplace. Ask our clients!
Our fire protection consultants perform the following studies
*NEW* Standby Coaching and Consulting
Citygate is pleased to announce a new service offering. By popular request, we are offering two new ways to get the right person, with the right skills, right when you need them! When an urgent issue arises, you will not need to go through a cumbersome RFP/RFQ process! A few of the unique benefits include: access to an on-call chief and coach, unmatched consulting flexibility, rapid response and resolution, independent perspective, and political sensitivity. Contact us to discuss or customize your plan!
Deployment Analyses
We are experts as performing Standards of Coverage deployment analyses consistent with guidelines from the National Fire Protection Association; the Commission on Fire Accreditation International; and the Insurance Services Office.
Consolidations & Service Alternatives
Having performed over 25 such studies, we know of no other firm with near the same level of expertise ascertaining feasibility and providing detailed implementation work for consolidations, contract-for-services, and other forms of regional fire services. Our staff has not just designed shared fire services, they have worked in merged fire services, so they deeply understand the practical difficulties!
Staffing Analysis
In addition to deployment staffing analysis, we conduct reviews of headquarters staff and program needs for effective agency management, supervision, and regulatory compliance.
Emergency Medical Services Analyses – First Response and Transport Programs
Our team of fire service and EMS professionals not only understand patient care, but also the changes occurring in pre-hospital health care. We understand community paramedicine and post-discharge care, with the associated financing of EMS changes in the fluid health care reform environment. We can conduct service delivery studies along with economic reviews, quality assurance, and quality improvement program compliance reviews.
Operations Review
We are intimately familiar with comprehensive reviews of all facets of fire operations, including fire prevention, fire response, fire administration, emergency medical services, fire investigation, fire training, disaster preparedness, administrative support positions, information systems, capital facilities and apparatus, fire department fees, emergency preparedness, regional issues, and fire public education.
Fire Station Location Assessments
We regularly perform location/relocation studies of fire stations to provide long-range service delivery for our clients. The evaluation of station locations often includes a comprehensive assessment of mutual-aid/automatic-aid agreements and their effectiveness and staffing, as well as an analysis of alternative deployment plans.
Master/Strategic Plans
Our team of experts have helped establish Master and Strategic plans encompassing all aspects of fire service operations.
Dispatch and Communications
Our technical communication, fiscal, and general government skills allow us to assist regional communication centers with master planning, staffing, cost sharing, joint governance reviews, and economic studies of proposed mergers.
Citygate In the News…
Citygate’s 2019 Solano County Local Agency Formation Commission Study Cited in County’s Grand Jury Report
Eagan, MN Earns 2020 City of Excellence Award for Firefighter Staffing with Help from Citygate Study
Citygate Presents Fire and Police Operations Assessments for Orem, Utah; City Embraces Results
Citygate’s Fire Districts Deployment and Fiscal/Governance Options Analysis for Solano County LAFCo Accepted
City of Eagan Wins League of Minnesota Cities City of Excellence Award after Implementing Citygate’s Standards of Coverage Study
Citygate Fire Study Assists Corona Residents in Sales Tax Decision
Our team
Watch highlights from our recent Standards of Coverage update presentation to San Diego, CA
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