Houston Fire Department Report

State of Emergency: The Cost of a Broken Houston Fire Fleet

PREPARED BY DOLCEFINO CONSULTING WAYNE DOLCEFINO, PRESIDENT

NUMBERS DON’T LIE

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There have been warnings for years.

In August of 2016, a $297,000 Houston taxpayer funded study by Facets Consulting detailed the age of first line Houston Fire trucks and offered a sobering review of the state of the Houston Fire Department fleet. In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner all but dismissed the report’s significance, but numbers do not lie. This is personal to me. As a young reporter I exposed Ladder truck 76, a broken truck sent to a house fire in Acres Homes. Two children died. Thankfully, my investigation led to a purchase of a lot of new live-saving equipment. In 2017, I was nearly fatally injured in a head on collision near San Angelo. I credit members of the Brady Fire Department with helping keep me alive. Years ago, I severely fractured my other heel and volunteer firefighters from Katy rescued me. My mother and grandmother were involved in a horrible traffic accident years ago, and I will never forget the Houston firefighters who treated them so kindly when they were so scared.

When Dolcefino Consulting was hired to investigate the scandal plagued recycling contract, our client Eco hub was offering the City of Houston a chance to save millions in recycling costs and wanted to make sure shared profits helped pay Houston firefighters and repair broken fire equipment. In our view, Mayor Turner cheated firefighters by ignoring their offer.

Houston firefighters helped elect this Mayor, yet the Mayor has made sure their petitions for an election on pay have collected dust. Parading a few new fire trucks for TV cameras just isn’t an honest assessment of the state of our fleet. These men and women saved my family and they save yours every day.

They deserve raises. They deserve to have equipment that works. More importantly, you deserve to have the quickest response time you can have.

This final report is a gift to Houston taxpayers from Dolcefino Consulting. It is time to stop the vindictive games and deal with the cost of a broken fire fleet. Our heroes deserve better. Taxpayers deserve better.

Fully one-third of Houston fire engines were over 10 years old. Fourteen were over 15 years old. Nearly half of the ladder trucks vital in high rise firefighting equipment are also aging.

The City of Houston does have a smaller fleet of back up trucks, called “reserves”, but the numbers are even worse for them. According to the Facets report, all reserve engines are over 15 years old, including all the reserve ladder trucks, with one being over 20 years old.

“Reserve vehicles have to stand in for broken-down front-line apparatus 85 percent of the time,” said Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena.

It is no surprise that older fire trucks break down. We have all seen firefighters forced to travel to emergencies in trucks with broken air conditioning and temperatures of more than 110 degrees while they are in full gear. KPRC did a story on June 1st about the breakdowns of ambulances and trucks.

The mayor tried to downplay the problem as a limited issue, but Channel 2 says, “the breakdown is not an odd, one-off occurrence, and the string of emergency equipment problems continue to plague the Houston Fire Department.”

Chief Sam Pena admitted that approximately 50 Houston fire trucks have broken air-conditioning systems.

The response to these news stories of a fire fleet that risks the safety of our first responders is unacceptable.

On June 21, 2018, Executive Assistant Fire Chief Isaac Garcia issued a new advisory on firefighters talking to the media. See Exhibit 1.

The solution to this public safety danger is not to attack the first amendment. Houston firefighters are the best source for the dangers they are facing from equipment that doesn’t work. Chief Garcia, the public has a fundamental right to know. When they call for help and their neighborhood fire station cannot respond, precious seconds are lost. Response time is affected. Trying to hide this danger is unacceptable.

Aging equipment has caught fire, not only jeopardizing response time, but the safety of Houston firefighters. In September of 2017, KPRC news broadcasted investigative reports detailing Engine 77, a 2005 model pumper, which went up into flames during a massive warehouse fire in Northwest Houston.

“Anytime an engine quits pumping and we have firefighters inside, that’s a danger,” said Assistant Chief R. Lozano.

Luckily there were no firefighters inside the burning warehouse when the truck quit and caught fire.

Last August, after a series of videos and photos showed failing equipment and firefighters forced to travel in dangerous conditions, Dolcefino Consulting embarked on a complicated data project to detail the true vulnerability of Houston neighborhoods from an aging, failing fleet.

From the Houston Fire Department’s own records, we already had initial evidence Houstonians deserve to know.

ERR reports represent data that is reported by Fleet Management to the Fire department daily to give an update on the status of apparatus functions. The ERR reports document the City of Houston has 88 first line fire engines and 38 first line ladder trucks. On some mornings this year, close to 20 percent of all first line engines and ladder trucks were down.

Dolcefino Consulting obtained ERR reports from January 1, 2018 to March. See Exhibit 2.

Dolcefino Consulting began the massive undertaking of acquiring records on August 7, 2017, by sending formal Texas Public Information Act Requests to the Houston Fire Department, in request of copies of any reports between January 1, 2016 and that date which details the per unit price and repair history of every apparatus, including but not limited to ladders, engines or towers. We asked that reports should also include the year of purchase of each vehicle.

We quickly learned the Houston Fire Department does not have records properly documenting the true consequences of a failing fleet, specifically how often and for how long neighborhood fire stations are unable to respond to a call for help.

To analyze the true consequences of the state of the aging fleet, Dolcefino Consulting first had to analyze the time elapsed after a first line fire truck goes out of service for maintenance and a replacement truck taking over. The difficulty stems from the fact that a reserve truck assumes the same number of the first line truck, and no one at the Houston Fire Department had bothered to ever analyze the time lost, or how often individual fire stations are left empty. We find it shocking the management of the Houston Fire Department fleet have ignored basic research to help them understand the wear and tear on reserves, which forced into service every day because of a broken fleet.

Five months after our initial requests, we received a troubling response from Alicia Whitehead-Breaux of the HFD Public Affairs Office.

“According to the Deputy Chief of Communications, currently a report does not exist in CAD to capture when units switch into a reserve. However, a new process began last month to begin recording show numbers in CAD for unit utilization purposes. It could be possible going forward to capture… what you are looking for.”

What is troubling is that HFD Fleet Management seems to be unaware of key questions of its own fleet management’s operations due to the City of Houston Fleet Management Division being a separate entity, consolidated in 2011. All City of Houston vehicles, including fire trucks, are all repaired at a central facility. As some outside consultants have already correctly noted, without maintenance specialists dedicated to this life saving equipment, there is a lack of communication. It is hard to know whether this failure is delaying repairs of equipment. That was not the focus of our review.

On November 17, 2016, KPRC reported the warnings of Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena. “The Houston Fire Department must double its annual spending on new engines, ladders and ambulances, and must ramp up its purchases of water rescue apparatuses and the training. He stated, the department has a moral and legal duty to provide safe and effective vehicles and equipment to its 4,100 firefighters and the residents they serve.”

Pena admitted engines are catching fire on the scene or at stations: one dropped a gas tank en route to a call.

This is putting Houstonians at pure risk when there is a fire emergency. It also adds an unfair burden to Houston Firefighters already frustrated at the failure of the Mayor to provide Houstonians the chance to raise their salaries significantly.

The City of Houston has budgeted $5.5 million to $5.8 million in each of the next five years to purchase fire vehicles, but Pena said $11 million is needed annually to ensure HFD meets his recommendation of replacing 16 ambulances, nine engines and four ladder or tower trucks each year. The current administration has highly publicized the arrival of a handful of new fire trucks, but this report will sound alarm bells.

Houston, we have a problem. Dolcefino Consulting has taken various reports and tens of thousands of pieces of unique data to accurately reflect the actual amount of downtime for each piece of first line equipment, by station, by each council district, identifying the number of hours and trucks that have been in and out of repair between 2016 and 2017 and the consequences for particular neighborhoods.

On, January 20th, 2018, Dolcefino Consulting learned of a fire report at Plantation Place Apartments. Engine 10 is located at 6600 Corporate Drive at Clarewood. It was dispatched because of the proximity to the scene of the reported blaze, but it barely left the Fire Station. Thick black smoke came from under the hood. The engine would be out of service four and a half hours before it was towed away. Simultaneously, one of the dwindling reserve units showed up to replace it. Four and a Half Hours. Just one broken down fire truck. But it raised an intriguing question. Just how many hours are Houstonians left vulnerable because of broken equipment, telltale signs of an aging fleet?

We felt it vital to identify the danger in each council district, especially for those members of Houston City Council who do not seem sufficiently alarmed to demand changes. We reviewed maintenance documents for dozens of fire stations where engines and ladders are stationed. We documented maintenance service time gaps, noting the hours, sometimes days, when firefighters do not have a truck to fight fires.

The out of service trucks fall into essentially two categories. They are either parked at the station waiting for maintenance or taken to Fleet Management for analysis and repair. Now you know why sometimes you drive by a fire station and see it is empty. It isn’t always because our firefighters are out on a call.

The results of our inquiry are staggering.

According to the data provided by the Houston Fire Department. first line fire engines were out of service more than 21,000 hours over the two-year period we analyzed. We analyzed data at 90 different fire stations.

First line ladder trucks were out 7743 hours at the 42 fire stations analyzed.

The longest time a single engine was out of service was at Station 104 in District E, when the engine was out for nearly 8 full days. The longest time a ladder was out of service was at Station 29, when the ladder was out for 10 and a half days.

Fire station 55 in District D had 168 events with an engine during the period. Fire station 7 in District D had 96 events with an engine during the period. These are the highest for any station.

Now, we identify the issues in every council district so that no councilmember can claim they weren’t warned. We are offering to meet with any councilmember to discuss this report further.

District A COUNCILMEMBER BRENDA STARDIG
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District A.
Station 4 is located at 6530 W. Little York
Station 5 is located at 2020 Hollister
Station 38 is located at 1120 Silber
Station 49 is located at 1212 Gessner
Station 50 is located at 4420 Bingle
Station 66 is located at 5800 Teague
Station 77 is located at 10155 Kempwood
Station 90 is located at 16553 Park Row
Station 96 is located at 7409 Willowchase

District A has 9 stations with engines. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 50 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 354 hours, 47 minutes and 51 seconds.
Station 38 had the longest time out for a single event in District A at 138 hours, 1 minute and 4 seconds.
Station 50 had 118 total events related to engines, which is the most in the district.
Station 38 had 5 events with engines out for 10 hours or more and 1 event with an engine out for over 24 hours, which is the most in the district.
District A has 5 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 38 had the highest number of hours with a ladder out estimated at 500 hours.
Station 96 had the longest time out for a single event at 14 hours, 29 minutes and 37 seconds.
Station 4 had 80 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 4 had 4 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District B COUNCILMEMBER JERRY DAVIS
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District B.
Station 19 is located at 1811 Gregg on the corner of New Orleans St.
Station 32 is located at 8614 Tidwell
Station 39 is located at 5810 Pickfair
Station 42 is located at 8675 Clinton Drive
Station 43 is located at 7330 N. Wayside
Station 56 is located at 5820 E. Little York
Station 63 is located 5626 Will Clayton Pkwy
Station 64 is located at 3000 Greens Rd.
Station 67 is located at 1616 W. Little York
Station 74 is located at 460 Aldine Bender
Station 84 is located at 320 Gears Rd.
*Stations 54 and 99 do not have engines or ladders

District B has 11 stations with engines. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 67 had the highest number of hours out with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 437 hours, 5 minutes and 2 seconds.
Station 43 had the longest time out for a single event in District B at 102 hours, 3 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 67 had 127 total events related to engines, which is the most in the district.
Station 67 had 7 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more and 3 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District B has 6 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 19 had the highest number of hours with a ladder out estimated at 435 hours.
Station 19 had the longest time out for a single event at 240 hours, 3 minutes and 8 seconds.
Station 67 had 91 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 67 had 2 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 19 had 1 event with a ladder out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District C COUNCILMEMBER ELLEN COHEN
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District C.
Station 3 is located at 3735 W. Alabama
Station 6 is located at 3402 Washington St. on the corner of Lakin St.
Station 11 is located at 460 T.C. Jester
Station 13 is located at 2215 W. 43rd
Station 16 is located at 1700 Richmond on the corner of Dunlavy St.
Station 37 is located at 7026 Stella Link

Station 62 is located at 1602 Seamist

District C has 7 stations with engines. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 16 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 358 hours, 21 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 13 had the longest time out for a single event in District C at 156 hours, 2 minutes and 1 second.
Station 3 had 120 total events related to engines, which is the most in the district.
Station 3 had 6 events with an engine out 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 16 had 2 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District C has 2 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 16 had the highest number of hours with a ladder out estimated at 210 hours.
Station 16 had the longest time out for a single event at 61 hours, 5 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 6 had 80 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 6 and 16 had 2 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more.
Station 16 had 1 event with a ladder out for 24 hours or more.

District D COUNCILMEMBER DWIGHT BOYKINS
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District D.
Station 7 is located at 1402 Elgin on the corner of Austin St.
Station 24 is located at 2625 Reed Rd.
Station 25 is located at 3902 Scott
Station 35 is located at 5535 Van Fleet
Station 46 is located at 3902 Corder on the corner of Scott St.
Station 55 is located at 11212 Cullen Blvd
Station 61 is located at 9726 Monroe on the corner of Swiss Ln.
Station 70 is located at 11410 Beamer
*Stations 81 and 92 do not have engines or ladders

District D has 8 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.

Station 55 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 413 hours and 40 minutes.
Station 7 had the longest time out for a single event in District D at 47 hours, 5 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 55 had 168 total events related to engines.
Station 46 and 25 each had 6 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 7 had 2 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District D has 4 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 55 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 340 hours.
Station 55 had the longest time out for a single event at 129 hours, 3 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 7 had 96 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Stations 7 and 55 had 3 events each with a ladder out for 10 hours or more.
Station 55 had 1 event with a ladder out for 24 hours or more.

District E COUNCILMEMBER DAVE MARTIN
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District E.
Station 52 is located 10343 Hartsook
Station 53 is located 13349 Vicksburg
Station 65 is located at 11531 FM 1960 East
Station 71 is located at 15200 Space Center
Station 72 is located at 17401 Saturn Lane
Station 93 is located at 911 FM 1959
Station 94 is located at 235 El Dorado
Station 101 is located at 1863 Kingwood Dr.
Station 102 is located at 4102 W. Lake Houston Parkway
Station 103 is located at 2907 High Valley Dr.
Station 104 is located at 910 Forest Cove Dr.
Station 105 14014 Lake Houston Parkway

District E has 12 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 104 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 301 hours, 17 minutes and 46 seconds.
Station 104 had the longest time out for a single event in District E at 191 hours, 3 minutes and 2 seconds.
Station 94 had 71 total events related to engines, which is the most for the district.
Stations 53 and 94 each had 5 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more.
Stations 101 and 104 each had 1 event with an engine out for 24 hours or more.
District E has 4 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 101 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 200 hours.
Station 101 had the longest time out for a single event at 46 hours, 26 minutes and 23 seconds.
Station 93 had 40 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 102 had 4 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 101 had 3 events with a ladder out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District F COUNCILMEMBER STEVE LE
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District F.
Station 10 is located at 6600 Corporate
Station 60 is located at 2925 Jeanetta
Station 76 is located at 7200 Cook Rd.
Station 83 is located at 3350 Breezewood

District F has 4 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 60 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 568 hours, 50 minutes and 8 seconds.
Station 10 had the longest time out for a single event in District F at 91 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds.
Station 60 had 127 total events related to engines, which is the highest in the district.
Station 60 had 10 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 60 had 4 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District F has 2 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 76 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 140 hours.
Station 76 had the longest time out for a single event at 11 hours, 2 minutes and 8 seconds.
Station 76 had 73 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 76 had 2 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more.

District G COUNCILMEMBER GREG TRAVIS
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District G.
Station 2 is located at 5880 Woodway
Station 57 is located at 13602 Memorial
Station 69 is located 1102 West Belt South
Station 75 is located at 1995 S. Dairy Ashford
Station 78 is located at 15100 Memorial Dr.
Station 86 is located at 14300 Briar Forest

District G has 6 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 75 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 299 hours, 52 minutes and 24 seconds.
Station 78 had the longest time out for a single event in District G at 18 hours, 53 minutes and 55 seconds.
Station 75 had 90 total events related to engines, which is the most in the district.
Station 75 had 7 total events with an engine out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District G has 3 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 75 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 210 hours.
Station 75 had the longest time out for a single event at 14 hours, 5 minutes and 42 seconds.
Station 78 had 66 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 78 had events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District H COUNCILMEMBER KARLA CISNEROS
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District H.
Station 9 is located at 702 Hogan
Station 12 is located at 1502 Alber
Station 15 is located at 5306 N. Main
Station 17 is located at 2805 Navigation
Station 27 is located at 6515 Lyons
Station 30 is located at 6702 Irvington
Station 31 is located at 222 W. Crosstimbers on the corner of Old Yale St.
Station 34 is located at 3100 Laura Koppe on the corner of Arkansas St.
Station 41 is located at 805 Pearl
Station 58 is located at 10413 Fulton

District H has 10 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 34 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 339 hours, 19 minutes and 6 seconds.
Station 41 had the longest time out for a single event in District H at 148 hours, 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
Station 34 had 133 total events related to engines, which is the most in the district.
Station 31 had 9 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more and 2 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District H has 2 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 31 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 160 hours.
Station 34 had longest time out for a single event at 12 hours, 36 minutes and 52 seconds.
Station 31 had 75 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.

District I COUNCILMEMBER ROBERT GALLEGOS
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District I.
Station 8 is located at 1919 Louisiana
Station 18 is located at 619 Telephone between Eddington St. and S. Lockwood Dr.
Station 20 is located at 6902 Navigation on the corner of 69th St.
Station 22 is located at 7825 Harrisburg
Station 23 is located at 8005 Lawndale
Station 26 is located at 7111 Dixie, near corner of Chaffin St.
Station 29, is located at 4831 Galveston Rd. on the corner of Ahrens St.
Station 36, is located at 7720 Airport Blvd. near E. Rent Car Rd.
Station 40 is located at 5830 Old Spanish Trail
Station 44 is located at 675 Maxey near the corner of Church Rd.
Station 45 is located at 4910 N. McCarty

District I, has 12 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 8 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 394 hours, 29 minutes and 51 seconds.
Station 44 had the longest time out for a single event in District I at 102 hours, 4 minutes and 1 second.
Station 8 had 135 events related to an engine, which is the most in the district.
Station 44 had 7 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more and 2 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District I has 7 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 29 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 405 hours.
Station 29 had the longest time out for a single event at 251 hours, 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
Station 18 had 78 total events related to a ladder, which is the most in the district.
Station 45 had 3 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 29 had 1 event with a ladder out for 25 hours or more.

District J COUNCILMEMBER MIKE LASTER
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District J.
Station 28 is located at 3000 Chimney Rock near corner of Delores St.
Station 51 located at 6902 Bellaire on the corner of Bintliff Dr.
Station 68 is located at 8602 Bissonnet on the corner of S. Gessner
Station 73 is located at 9640 Wilcrest

District J has 4 stations with an engine. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 28 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 371 hours, 2 minutes and 28 seconds.
Station 51 had the longest time out for a single event in District J at 61 hours, 4 minutes and 5 seconds.
Station 28 had 134 events related to an engine, which is the most in the district.
Station 51 had 10 events with an engine out for 10 hours or more and 1 event with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District J has 3 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 68 had the highest number of hours out estimated at 370 hours.
Station 68 had the longest time out for a single event at 144 hours, 5 minutes and 3 seconds.
Station 28 had 95 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 68 had 4 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more and 3 events with a ladder out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

District K COUNCILMEMBER MARTHA CASTEX-TATUM
We have reviewed maintenance records for the following fire stations in District K
Station 21 is located at 10515 S. Main
Station 33 is located at 7117 Fannin between Lyndon St and Lehall St.
Station 47 is located at 2615 Tidewater
Station 48 is located at 11616 Chimney Rock
Station 59 is located at 13925 S. Post Oak on the corner of Prudence Dr.
Station 80 is located at 16111 Chimney Rock
Station 82 is located at 11250 Braesridge

District K has 7 stations with an engine.
Station 47 had the highest number of hours with an engine out in 2016-2017 at 374 hours, 31 minutes and 28 seconds.
Station 21 had the longest time out for a single event in District K at 159 hours, 3 minutes and 2 seconds.
Station 47 had 120 events related to an engine, which is the most in the district.
Station 47 had 7 events occur with an engine out for 10 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
Station 48 had 2 events with an engine out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.
District K has 4 stations with ladders. Here are some of the statistics that stand out.
Station 59 had the highest number of hours estimated at 350 hours.
Station 59 had the longest time out for a single event at 157 hours, 4 minutes and 4 seconds.
Station 33 had 75 total events related to ladders, which is the most in the district.
Station 59 had 3 events with a ladder out for 10 hours or more and 1 event with a ladder out for 24 hours or more, which is the most in the district.

We have compiled spreadsheets that list every single event over the two-year period. We will provide our data to the Houston Fire Department at no charge. Sadly, it is our conclusion Houstonians are being cheated. How many victims of fire or illness waited seconds or minutes longer for help because the closest fire truck was broken down.

We view this as an emergency requiring immediate action from Houston City Council.

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