During the next five years, the advanced life support engine companies will be proposed. Under the proposal, the Oklahoma City Fire Department will handle First Responder and Advanced Life Support duties in selected areas of our city. Chief Marrs would like to publicly recognize the efforts of Public Education, Code Enforcement, Fire Investigation, Equipment Maintenance, Administrative Staff, and Training for their efforts in helping to lower the amount of fire loss in Oklahoma City. As a result of the lowered fire loss, Oklahoma City insurance rates are no longer based on the Insurance Services Organization rating system, but on actual fire loss figures. One of the goals of Chief Marrs, and the department is to present the Insurance Services Organization with a comprehensive report documenting continuously decreasing numbers in fire loss.
Every commercial fire affects a company's ability to be productive and employ personnel.
The loss of contributions to the tax base affects the department and the citizens of Oklahoma City. Changes in the near future will be evolutionary, not revolutionary, as far as technology is concerned. New products become available all the time, but by the time they are ordered and placed in service, they become obsolete. However, now as in the past, the Oklahoma City Fire Department will review and evaluate new and safer equipment to assist us in the performance of our duties. Chief Marrs has brought several proactive ideas and concepts to the department that will change the face of the department as much in the next five years as it has in the last twenty.