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Mashpee Fire & Rescue Department Emergency Category 8, which provides some residents with a Response Statistics 10%discount on flood insurance. The role of the CRS Coordinator is to ensure relevant programs are prop- Response Description 2017 2018 erly documented for annual review and an in-house Fires audit conducted by FEMA every five years. Private Dwellings 11 13 Apartments 4 1 2017 also saw an update to the 911 emergency Hotels & Motels 0 1 system. Past years used a system referred to as the Public Assembly 0 0 Enhanced 911 system. This system relied on a caller's All other Residential 0 0 address based on a predicted number range on a given Schools & Colleges 0 0 street and lacked the accuracy expected today in a Health Care 0 0 GPS enabled world. The new 911 system is referred Stores & Offices 0 1 to as Next Generation 911. NG911 uses a geocoded Industrial 0 1 point to identify a building's precise location,whether Storage Structures 1 0 that is right on the street or out of sight at the end of a Other Structures 1 0 long driveway. Fires in Highway Vehicles 4 2 Fires in Other Vehicles 1 2 In concert with the IT Department, the GIS Fires Outside of Structures 4 6 Department has coordinated the continued scanning of Fires in the Wildland 16 8 all paper documents from the Building, Health, Fires in Rubbish 3 3 Conservation, and Town Clerk. This year we added All Other Fires 4 1 the capability for the public to access certain Town Total Fires 49 39 Clerk documents such as meeting minutes. The scan- ning process continues to be refined to allow for a Emergency Medical Responses 2172 2538 quicker,more efficient method to capture information. False Alarms 492 669 We hope to see this capability expanded to additional Mutual Aid Given 91 94 departments in the near future. Hazardous Materials Response 61 55 Other Hazardous Response 43 126 David DelVecchio, Bruce Stello, and Leo All Other Responses 509 529 DaSilva have continued to be great assets to the GIS Coordinator in maintaining a robust network without Total for all Incidents 3417 4050 which the GIS Department would not be able to func- tion. We continue to build on this solid foundation and endeavor to expand the utility by enhancing cur- rent capabilities and developing new ones. Report of the Department Mission GIS Coordinator Performs technical Geographic Information Systems and Addressing related work involving the To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens operation, development, design, preparation, support, of the Town of Mashpee and deployment of GIS systems and data for town departments and public consumption. Public interface The role of the GIS Coordinator has grown to for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's, accommodate additional requirements as they have Community Resource System flood hazard mitigation been identified. This year added the responsibility of program. a Community Rating System(CRS) Coordinator. Major Activities of the previous Year The CRS is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that gives communities Mashpee accepted into FEMA CRS program potential discounts on certain flood insurance rates • Fire Department Remote Access program based on flood mitigation steps a community has replaced with Station Smarts. A tablet based, implemented. In October,Mashpee was assessed at a internet connected capability 119