ABSTRACT:

According to their web site, the San Jose Fire Department (SJFD) serves a population of more than a million people in an area of 205 square miles. In order to do so, the city of San Jose divides its territory in more than 30 Emergency Service Zones (ESZ), some of which report more activity than others zones. These responses were of the medical, fire and other related types.

The objective of this project was to identify the zones reporting more incidents as well as selecting the zones with the highest scores of cases attended and its correlation with contaminated soils and crime statistical data to start identifying potential patterns of behavior in those zones.

Outputs:
Creation of several map layouts displaying the type of response per zone and totals as well as overlaying crime data.

Creation of report of the total type of responses per zone.

Creation of map layout showing the highest cases attended areas and its correlation with contaminated soils in the area.

Creation of map layout showing the highest cases attended areas and its correlation with crime reported in the area.

Sources:
City of San Jose Planning Division:

City of San Jose Police Department:

City of San Jose Fire Department’s web site:

Data Manipulation:
The majority of the data provided by the Planning Division is in MapInfo format and it requires translation/converstion to ArcGis shapefiles.

The type of response per emergency zone is tabular data posted online and it requires conversion/creation of a database file compatible with ArcGIS.

Crime data is an online report generated by a third party vendor called CrimeReports.com an online mapping and analysis services provided by Public Engines Inc, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Software(s):
ArcGIS 9.3, MS Excel

Emergency Service Zones - Total Cases Attended in 2007 - 2008 in San Jose, CAESZ Fire Stations

This map shows the distribution per Emergency Service Zones of cases attended by Fire Stations in the San Jose area during the fiscal year 2007 - 2008, as well as type of response per Emergency Service Zones. A report of tabular data was also included to support the georeferenced data.

Contaminated Soils Areas in Emergency Service Zones in San Jose, CA 2007 - 2008ESZ Contaminated Soils

These are the four Emergency Service Zones with the highest distribution of cases attended and its correlation with opened and closed cases of Contaminated Soils in San Jose.

Reported Crime Totals in Emergency Service Zones in San Jose, CA 2007 - 2008ESZ Crime

The last maps shows those Emergency Service Zones with the highest distribution of cases attended and its correlation with Crime Report in San Jose.

Conclusion
Most likely the cases attended are somewhat related to reported crime. A second observation indicates that those cases are in proximity of major freeways. No correlation seem to exist amongst contaminated soils in the area.