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Elk River Fire Department Elk River, MN Fire Station Feasibility and Facilities Study Five Bugles Design A Division of Wendel Companies GIS mapping was created for the existing station location (figure 10) representing the projected emergency response time superimposed on the department’s response area showing two-minute incremental response zones. The Elk River Fire Department is not capable of responding to all areas of the City of Elk River within a recommended eight-minute response time* from its existing stations. *Eight-minute response zones are used for this analysis as an approximation of NFPA 1720 guidelines which specifies required response from paid-on-call departments. When added to a six minute or less response to the station, which Elk River Fire Department generally meets, the total response should be less than the 14 minutes required for rural population centers. It should be noted that this analysis is not intended to prove that the department meets NFPA1720, but to recommend optimal response characteristics to the City. It is important to remember that the map in figure 10 is showing response time from the station to the scene and does not include response time to the station. Elk R iver is faced with some unique challenges due to barriers that are created by Highways 10 and 169, the BNSF Railroad and the Mississippi River. At certain times of the day, the response time for staff to get to the station can be much longer than average. The following map shows the relationship of staff residences to the stations relative to those barriers. Figure 21: Major Barriers for Mobility 3