FIRE FIGHTING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN SURABAYA

• Main Author: Millenia Ratno, Tiara
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Perencanaan wilayah
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/80245
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Fire is one of the urban disasters that cannot be avoided. As the types of built environments become increasingly varied, many new safety challenges arise with the development of today's built environment. This of course increases the risk of fire and creates unique fire protection challenges in urban areas. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate fire fighting performance that takes into account unique urban factors. Fire fighting performance is defined as fire response time, fire extinguishing time, and losses experienced due to fire. The aim of this research is to investigate the interaction between population density, land function, residential density, fire fighting infrastructure, and the dynamics of fire response in Surabaya and their influence on fire fighting performance. This research uses secondary data from the city government as well as other sources from news outlet, especially fire incident data from 2018 to 2022, complemented by interviews with the Fire Department, the Public Housing Department, and 112 Command Center which were then analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, spatial analysis, comparative analysis, and content analysis methods. Research results show that the achievement of response time in Surabaya is influenced by the skills of Command Center 112 personnels in directing field officers, traffic management in collaboration with Transportation Department (Dishub) so that the route taken by firefighters faces no delays, as well as the optimal location of fire stations. The response time of the City of Surabaya improves every year until it has now reached 100%. There is no spatial correlation between the location of districts with the response times. It is known that the smaller the fire, the more often it occurs. In the case of Surabaya, small fires occurred 53.34% (2,025 incidents), medium fires 44.04% (1,672 incidents), large fires 2% (76 incidents) and very large fires 0.6% (23 incidents). Blackout times in the city of Surabaya widely vary. There is no relationship between the frequency of fire incidents per district and the time to extinguish fires per sub-district. Regarding land function, there are several areas that need to be given more attention in terms of fire mitigation, namely areas that have a lot of flammable materials and/or accommodate large numbers of people, such as industrial areas, trade areas and residential areas that suffer the greatest losses when fire occurs.