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Mr. James A. Van Deurzen December 11, 1997 Page 4 The chosen location is an exceedingly bad one if a fire were ever to begin. Bear in mind that this land is in the center of the Brooklyn Wildlife Area, with Department of Natural Resources lands all around it . I offer the following example drawn from my own personal fire fighting experience of the extreme hazard of building this structure at the location the applicant wants it: If the Oregon Fire Department were called in to put out a fire in the 8, 300 square foot building, our response time from Oregon is about 20 minutes . A building of this size requires 3, 300 gallons per minute to bring under control. Oregon, Brooklyn and Belleville would be the Fire Departments to respond. Total water on the scene from the three Departments would be approximately 12, 000 gallons . With two engines pumping water at the building site, they could pump 3, 000 gallons per minute if we could get the water to them. The big problem is that the driveway culvert will not allow the tanker trucks to pass . Instead, the fire fighters must lay a five inch hose from Tipperary Road 1, 400 feet into the building site. The first hose is not a particular problem. However, a five inch hose, 1, 400 feet long, will only allow about 900 to 1, 000 gallon capacity due to pressure loss and pumping distance . This line will snake under pressure . To get anywhere near the 3, 300 gallons per minute needed, the Fire Departments would need two more five inch lines to the pumpers at the building. These hoses are laid by the fire fighters by hand. This will require about 25 fire fighters to haul 1, 400 feet of heavy five inch hose. The next problem is water supply. With only 12, 000 gallons on the scene, divided by 3, 000 gallons per minute from the pumpers, this is only four minutes of water time. The hoses themselves will take the first 3, 000 gallons just to fill . There would only be about 9, 000 to 10, 000 gallons of water left on hand, so the time is actually well below four minutes of water time. Since it would take 30 to 38 minutes for tankers to haul water from Oregon in an average of 1, 700 gallons, there is simply a very high likelihood that a fire could not be extinguished at all . Thus, the unfortunate truth is that in this location, the Fire Departments could not extinguish a fire in the building if it were in full flames, let alone get emergency medical services into the scene because the driveway is full of fire hoses . The injured would have to be carried out the full 1, 400 feet by the fire and EMS representatives . The possibility also exists that at this location, the