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Early Responders as a Resource for Effective Response
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Karlstad, Sweden.
Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, Information Systems and Digitalization. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Communications and Transport Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4677-1949
2022 (English)In: Residential fire safety: an interdisciplinary approach / [ed] Marcus Runefors, Ragnar Andersson, Mattias Delin, Thomas Gell, Springer, 2022, p. 327-343Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The public sector and emergency response worldwide face budget constraints and lack of resources while having to respond to an increasing number of emergenices. In this chapter, we will describe how the Swedish municipal fire services have addressed this challenge by initiating a first response with new ways of organizing their response units and through collaborations with other societal sectors, i.e., semiprofessionals and with citizen volunteers. This, by using experience from a ten years period and analyzing it in terms of cross-sector collaboration and coproduction. The chapter includes different emergency types the new resources can be dispatched to, with a specific focus on residential fires. The results show that the major benefit for all three forms of reorganization is a shorter response time, which can lead to more saved lives, reduced human suffering, and less material damage. When using semiprofessionals and volunteers, identified challenges include, e.g., prioritization of tasks, making the engagement collective, the dispatch technology, and avoiding risky situations. We discuss the implications of the results and provide some suggestions for future work.

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Springer, 2022. p. 327-343
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The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series (SFPES)
Keywords [en]
First response; Co-production; Semi-professionals; Volunteers; Dispatch technology; Response time
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Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-189166Libris ID: p5pfhdplm4g0xmw7ISBN: 9783031063251 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-189166DiVA, id: diva2:1703005
Available from: 2022-10-12 Created: 2022-10-12 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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