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Figure 5 <br />FIRE STATION LOCATIONS <br />The County does not maintain data on fire/rescue inci dents by land use. A reasonable alternative is to <br />use Ñfunctional populationÒ as the indicator of demand for fire protection service by land use type. The <br />functional population methodology makes the reasonabl e assumption that the demand for public safety <br />services is roughly proportional to the presence of people at the site of a land use. The methodology <br />assumes that people spend about half of their time at their plac <br />nonresidential land uses. <br />While fire-fighting apparatus and ambulances may be dispatched from a station primarily to calls within <br />that stationÔs primary response area, these units may also respond to calls in neighboring response areas <br />if needed. In addition, the headquarters and trai ning facilities are centra lized. Consequently, fire/EMS <br />facilities constitute an interrelated system that provides servi <br />reasons, most fire impact fees use a single jurisdicti on-wide benefit district. However, given the size of <br />the county, it should be divided into a minimum of two (east and <br />H Ô C \I N A ÐP A M January 5, 2006 , Page 19 <br />AWAI I OUNTY NFRASTRUCTURE EEDS SSESSMENT OLICY NALYSIS EMORANDUM <br /> <br />