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I would do like George said before I would hire any outside agency to do our pre-plans. No one knows our operations better than us, and to have an outside agency come in and do an Important thing as pre-plan the district is a LODD waiting to happen.
We are a small department also, about 26 active members with only 9 interiors. We have our pre-planning done each year with the fire prevention week. We send out letters with info on fire safety, and a quick questionaire about a business and their fire protection features such as sprinklers. We ask for a floor plan and information about who to contact should we respond to a call to their business after hours. We get a great response, bottom line is; if people want us to protect their property we need to know key pieces of info.
We got some negative comments about the floor plans, including "Why, so you know where to find the valuables when you rob the place?!" After carefully explaining to the owners that the more we know about the layout of the builidng the quicker we can rescue people and extinguish the fire they understood.
Take a drill night also, load everyone in the rescue truck (or whatever is available) and drive through your district, look for obvious hazards and than stop and talk about the building, see if you can talk to the owner while there and ask to take pictures and have a tour. Most of the time they say yes, I have never had someone say no to us and we have learned a lot that way about our district.
I echo what has been said here, and I would imagine any company that did this for you would charge you an arm and a leg. Initially I would send a questionaire to all of my business's. Secondly I would evaluate where are we most likely to have a problem welding shops, grain elevators, fuel depots etc. what areas have a higher probability of an incident occuring, go and look in person at those areas so you can become more familiar with them, send an officer and a couple of guys to check those problem spots. Then I would take a look at places where an event is less likely to occur but if an event were to occur it would be catastrophic. It would be great to look at every building inside and out, but when you have limited time and resources the key piroritizing hazards.
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