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CSUSM program to review NCFPD community risk reduction program

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

A Cal State University San Marcos program will be reviewing the North County Fire Protection District’s community risk reduction program.

The university’s College of Business Administration has a Senior Experience Program in which a team of five graduating business students work as consultants. The activity will include development of metrics to enhance the effectiveness of the district’s practices, outreach, and marketing.

“The goal is to identify exactly the scope of work, but I would like them to evaluate all of our community risk reduction activities,” said NCFPD Fire Chief Keith McReynolds. “That would be helpful. There are things we’ve kind of done on our own over the years.”

The fire district’s community risk reduction activities include education, evacuation routes, fire prevention, fire safety information, and providing information about risk reduction in general with such matters as weather and roadway safety.

“There are a lot of things that can fall under the realm of community risk reduction,” McReynolds said. “They’ll come in and evaluate what we’re doing and maybe make some suggestions on additional things we can do.”

The district applied to be studied by the Senior Experience Program in January and learned during the first week of February that the NCFPD request had been accepted.

“We have a basic community risk reduction plan that has evolved over time, but they will help us develop a comprehensive plan,” McReynolds said. “There will be measurable benchmarks within their plan that will kind of give us a roadmap.”

During the fall 2020 semester, the Senior Experience Program evaluated communication issues with the Vista Fire Department. A spring 2020 team worked with the Rainbow Municipal Water District on an in-depth internal and external communication plan. The Senior Experience Program will also work with for-profit companies; in spring 2019, a team worked with Moody Creek Winery to analyze the feasibility of a wine processing facility, restaurant, tasting room, and event space in Bonsall.

The Cal State San Marcos students will work with NCFPD during the spring 2022 semester. “Neat program, and we’re really excited to see the report they’re going to produce for us,” McReynolds said. “We’re looking forward to working with the students and we’re looking forward to their report.”

 

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