Agmt 2007 Alameda County Fire Department ACFD

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Section 3-8 of the Fire and Emergency Response Services Agreement provides, "One member of each company on each shift shall be a licensed paramedic." Pursuant to the FPEMS Agreement, ACFD presently operates seven (7) vehicles, each of which is staffed with one (1) paramedic whose training satisfies the requirements of the FRALS Agreement. City and ACFD hereby agree that ACFD will continue to staff all vehicles with at least one (1) paramedic each, and that the paramedics on each vehicle will continue to satisfy the certification and accreditation requirements of the FRALS Agreement. RESPONSE TIME Section 6.1 of the FRALS Agreement requires the City, in responding to requests for code 3 medical assistance that originate within the City's Primary Service Area, to place a FRALS unit on the scene within eight (8) minutes of receiving the call at least ninety percent (90%) of the time. Section 3-D of the Fire and Emergency Response Services Agreement states that ACFD's first due company shall respond to at least ninety percent (90%) of all emergency incidents within five (5) minutes or less. Historically, ACFD response time under the FPEMS Agreement has been measured from the time the first due unit is dispatched. City and ACFD hereby agree that "emergency incident", as that term is used in the Fire Protection Agreement, includes all Code 3 emergencies, as defined in section 3.14 and use in section 6 of the FRALS Agreement. City and ACFD further agree that ACFD will continue to comply with the response time standards established in the Fire Protection Agreement, meaning that ACFD shall respond to at least ninety percent (90%) of all emergency incidents within five (5) minutes of being dispatched. However, ACFD shall also comply with all aspects of the response time standards in the FRALS Agreement over which ACFD exercises control. RECORD KEEPING AND REPORTING Section 13.1 of the FRALS Agreement requires City, within fifteen (15) days following the end of each quarter, to report to the county in writing, using fractile response time method, each emergency call dispatched that did not meet the response time requirement and each failure to report on~scene time properly. It further requires the City to identify the causes of any performance failures and to document efforts to eliminate such problems. City and ACFD agree that ACFD will fulfill City's reporting requirements under FRALS Agreement, sending a copy of each such report to the City at the same time that ACFD sends one to the County. Section 13.2 of the FRALS Agreement requires City to use the County's "Patient Care Report" (PCR) system for all assignment including patient contact and non~transport.