Applying Fuzzy AHP Method for Ranking of Rasht Districts for Adding New Fire Stations

Firefighting services must provide a high rate of relief to ensure public safety. These rescue services are usually provided by vehicles stationed at fire stations. One of the most important issues in this regard is the location of these stations in the metropolitan area, so that they have the highest impact for emergency relief. To prioritize the five districts of Rasht to create or add new fire stations, five indices: area size, population, traffic, land usage and risk capability were considered as decision indicators. The statistical population for sampling was firefighters in Rasht. One station from each district and two firefighters from each district (10 firefighters in total) were selected as samples. The Questionnaire was used for data collection. Fuzzy AHP multi-criteria decision making method was used to rank areas of Rasht city. According to the results, the fourth zone with equal weight (0.305), first zone (0.210), fifth zone (0.174), third zone (0.173) and the second zone (0.136) were prioritized for construction of the new station, respectively.