Analysis on main parameters of fire service deployment of 119 recue center using spatial information

Fire service is one of the essential public services to protect the people’s lives and property from various dangers. As the urban structures have recently become more complicated and dense, the efficient placement and operation of fire service force is getting more important. In this respect, the present study developed a methodology to evaluate the performance of the key factors of fire service force quantitatively. This study proposes spatial information-based methodology that can be used as actual local evaluation indicator for the accessibility, the number of residents per fire service officer, buildings under the jurisdiction of a certain fire service organization, which are the key variables of evaluation service. When applying this research methodology to an real city in size of a district, this study found out that there was a wide deviation in fire service force. Particularly, the deviation turned out greater as fire service force was placed in lower urban hierarchy. To tackle this problem, it was found more effective to design a plan to place fire service force to narrow urban hierarchy first and then wide urban hierarchy in terms of correcting the unbalanced fire service force. Until now, studies have been carried out on the criteria to measure fire service force with, but no specific methodology to apply has been developed. In this, this study finds itself significance that proposing and applying a specific methodology will contribute to later evaluating and improving local fire service force.