Omaha Fire Department

The Strategic Plan for the Omaha Fire Department, covering 2025-2030, serves as a roadmap for organizational growth and improvement, ensuring alignment with community needs, operational efficiency, and service excellence. Its core strategic themes include Enhancing Life Safety and Property Protection, Meeting Future Service Demands, and Demonstrating Public Value. The plan aims to improve emergency response, risk reduction, and community preparedness; adapt to increasing service demands while maintaining efficiency; and strengthen community trust, all with a commitment to exceptional service.

This document presents the Omaha Fire Department's NFPA 1710 Annual Evaluation for 2020, assessing its performance against national standards for fire suppression, emergency medical services, and special operations. Key focus areas include detailed performance metrics for turnout, travel, and response times across various incident types, geographical analysis of fire zones, and incident counts. The evaluation identifies areas for improvement and outlines long and short-term goals, such as capital improvement funding for station relocation, mobile data terminal maintenance, and enhanced reporting, to improve service delivery and achieve compliance with NFPA 1710 standards.

The strategic plan for the City of Omaha Fire Department aims to establish Omaha as 'Safe City USA' by enhancing fire, rescue, emergency medical, and support services. Key strategic pillars include improving fire and rescue protection through better response times and reduced fatalities, educating citizens for increased fire survivability and prevention, delivering pre-hospital emergency medical care above national standards, ensuring firefighters are fully prepared for all emergency services, and promoting firefighter physical and mental health and wellness.

The strategic plan for the City of Omaha Fire Department aims to establish Omaha as 'Safe City USA' by 2015. It focuses on enhancing fire and rescue protection through improved response times, reducing civilian fire deaths, and increasing fire containment and arson clearance rates. Key priorities also include educating citizens on fire prevention and survivability, maintaining high standards for pre-hospital emergency medical care, ensuring firefighters are fully prepared for all emergency services, and promoting the physical and mental health of its personnel.