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089084 1 (1976-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvch0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 0 REGIONAL OFFICE FEDERAL BUILDING 16TH FLOOR WEST 230 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60604 9 DEC 1976 Mr. Daniel Cooney, Hospital Director Veterans Administration Hospital 54th Street and 48th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417 Dear Mr. Cooney The General Accounting Office recently evaluated the operation of the Minneapolis Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital's fire station at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. We have concluded that, because of limited equipment and personnel, the quality of protection provided by the station is inferior to the protection received by other hospitals in the adjacent cities of Minneapolis and St Paul. Fire protection of much higher quality is available from either Minneapolis or St. Paul and could probably be obtained on a contractual basis at a lower cost than that needed to operate the VA fire station We therefore recom- mend that negotiations be undertaken to obtain fire protection services from one of the adjacent cities, preferably Minneapolis because of its closer proximity. If negotiations are successful, we recommend that operation of the VA fire station be discontinued. These recommendations are based on the following principal findings developed during our evaluation --The VA fire station equipment is lmited mainly to two 750 gallons-per-minute (g p.m.) pumper trucks. Responses to alarms are normally made with only one truck and fouT or five firefighters. The station has no ladder truck and therefore has quite limited capability to combat fires or provide emergency rescue of patients and employees at any of the upper floors of the 8-story hospital structure Although back-up support is available from the Minneapolis Fire Department, it is not called on during first alarms Therefore, for emergencies where such back-up equipment is needed, valuable response time is lost. This imposes a high life-safety risk on all patients and employees at the hospital. --Both Minneapolis and St. Paul fire departments respond to all first alarm hospital calls with more firefighters and with more and <E0

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