Take a look out the windows of your firehouse; what do you see? You see the epicenter of your first-due response area containing its infrastructure, common building types and their adjacency, population density common to the socioeconomics of the neighborhood, and all the above's inherent risk to your fire department. It's a lot to take in when looking at it holistically. Now ask the firefighters in your company if they see the same thing you do, the same thing your fire chief does, the same thing your elected officials do. It's a safe bet that you'll get varying descriptions of risk analyses, even from within your own fire department. There is even more to see, however, when you take a much deeper look into your first-due response area that you probably never even knew existed, much less thought mattered. What's there is your first-due response area's latitudes and longitudes, census tracts, number of housing units, median household income, number of renters, age and vintage of those buildings, age group counts, and a social vulnetability index.
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