Assignment task: In 2018, Travis County Emergency Services District 2 ("the District," or "TCESD2") completed its first Community Risk Assessment (CRA). The CRA is a strategic process for fire departments to gather and analyze community data, in order to set organizational priorities across all divisions: Operations, Risk Reduction (formerly known as Prevention), and Administration. The District analyzed information for the CRA including five years of emergency call data, occupancy data, housing age, and U.S.
Census demographic data (age, race, language, disabilities, and income). The CRA was publicly distributed to community leaders and published on the District website:
After a CRA is completed, the next phase in the formal process of reducing community risk is to develop a Community Risk Reduction Plan (CRRP), per the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This type of plan helps to more effectively target a fire department's limited resources--funding, personnel, time, and partnerships--where and when they are most needed.