Citygate conducted a Fire Department Standards of Coverage assessment for the City of Fremont, California. This assessment included an analysis of service delivery expectations, including labor, management, elected officials’, and community expectations for delivery of fire service, EMS, and special hazard service; an analysis of the values to be protected in the Department, along with identification and evaluation of potential hazards and overall risk; an analysis of the efficiency of the deployment scheme of firefighting resources within the Department’s fire stations; and an analysis of the Department’s ability to meet its fire and EMS first responder deployment needs and expectations.

Citygate provided assessment and planning services regarding a Bay Area multi-discipline Incident Management Team Concept for the City of Fremont. The planning was regionally focused and provided guidance to close the gap between the current situation and the desired future state. Citygate performed a needs assessment and performance audit of current incident management assets, developed an end-state goal for all-hazard, multi-discipline Incident Management Teams in the Bay Area, performed a gap analysis, and developed findings and recommendations consistent with current and potential best practices.

Citygate worked with the City of Fremont to develop an Emergency Operations Center staff training plan that included an orientation seminar, tabletop exercise, and functional exercise in their newly reconfigured operations center. The members of the training planning team, under Citygate’s guidance, presented the training.