OVERVIEW

The Fire Stations layer shows the point locations of 789 Fire stations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) GIS Program in cooperation with the Regional Planning Agencies and participating communities created the data as part of the development of Homeland Security Data Layers.   Stored in the ArcSDE, the layer is named FIRESTATIONS_PT_MEMA.

The MEMA GIS Program received a fire department list from the Department of Fire Services, Executive Office of Public Safety and created a dataset by geocoding the tabular data in ArcMap 8.3. Building locations were refined using ortho imagery. The Boston area was updated based on NOAA data. Data were combined with data from various regional planning agencies. The combined layer was distributed to regional planning agencies for a location accuracy check and updates for Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants or Homeland Security Council funded project. Locations were checked for building accuracy, completeness and attribute accuracy. A final review and check were conducted by MEMA and MassGIS.

The layer's point attribute table contains the following items:

NAME		Fire department name
OFFICE		Office or branch name
ADDRESS		Station address
CITY		Station municipality
STATE		Station state (all "MA")
ZIP		Station ZIP Code
L_SRC		Location source
SOURCE		Attribute source
L_DATE		Location date

MEMA will provide any updates to MassGIS. Please send any corrections or updates to

Johanna Meyer
Massachusetts Emergency Managment Agency
Framingham, MA 01702
508-820-2000 (voice)
508-820-2030 (fax)
johanna.meyer@state.ma.us

Last Updated 2/22/2007
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