The Fire Snapshot offers a comprehensive analysis of Fire spending in your community. Taken from the Municipal Yardstick to form a stand alone report, its approximately 90 pages dissect all aspects of your community’s Fire department, including:
  • Fire Spending as a Part of the Overall Budget
  • Number and Coverage of Fire Stations
  • Full Time and Call / Volunteer Fire Staffing
  • Salaries
  • Vacation, Holiday, Sick Leave and Personal Leave
  • Health Insurance Coverage
  • Fire Incidence Data
The detailed and granular analysis in the Fire Snapshot allows a fire chief, municipal official or union representative to analyze the primary cost drivers, staffing and salaries, or examine fire outcomes. In short, it is an ideal tool to help a policy makers evaluate your community’s fire department.

In each case, the Fire Snapshot utilizes our proprietary Benchmark Peer Group methodology. The Fire Snapshot compares your community against its Benchmark Peer Group, the twenty most similar communities in Massachusetts derived by analyzing fifteen key socio-economic, demographic and geographic attributes.

Please note that the Fire Snapshot is a dynamic report. If there are areas that you are particularly interested in, but you do not feel are covered by the report, please contact us and we would be happy to work with you to design exactly the analysis required by your community.