Coverage Analysis of Fire Stations Located in Puebla City and Determination of New Possible Required Locations

The growing population in Puebla City these last couple of years entailed the expansion of its original urban area. The most recent settlements have established on areas that are highly exposed to natural disasters, thus, requiring the proper emergency service coverage provided by Fire Stations. To assure this kind of service coverage, the current fire stations in Puebla City were evaluated through mapping tools and given parameters, in order to recognize the capacity to satisfy the entire city’s service demand. Based on the coverage analysis it was determined the need for an extra facility. The characteristics of the problem suggested that the most appropriated model to use is the Maximum Coverage Model, which is adapted for Lingo software to determine the optimal location to place the new fire station, looking for the full or largest possible coverage.