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400 <br />350 <br />300 <br />250 <br />200 <br />150 <br />100 <br />50 <br />0 <br />Ramsey, Nowthen, St. Francis, Oak Grove, and Bethel, Minnesota <br />Feasibility Study for Shared or Cooperative Fire and Emergency Services <br />2011 <br />2012 2011 1 2012 2011 <br />2012 2011 2012 <br />Bethel Oak Grove Ramsey St. Francis <br />■ Fire ■ EMS • Other <br />Service demand was also evaluated temporally. As expected, each department's service demand begins <br />to increase around 0600, peaks during the mid -afternoon hours and then declines into the evening. This <br />is a common bell -curve pattern of service demand for fire departments involved in the delivery of EMS. <br />When service demand was plotted geographically, it was determined that the heaviest incident density <br />occurs within Ramsey and St. Francis. <br />70 <br />60 <br />50 <br />40 <br />30 <br />20 <br />10 <br />0 <br />0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 <br />—Bethel Oak Grove <br />Ramsey St. Francis <br />In regard to distribution of resources, based on travel models, nearly 100 percent of the combined <br />service area is within 12 minutes of travel from an existing fire station and 85 percent is within eight <br />page 4 <br />01[1::),iiiErne service: coaaufc%ng <br />