This chapter presented the summary of the study, its findings, conclusions, recommendations, and implications.
Summary
This study was conducted to determine the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters. The results were expected to provide implications to alleviate the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the province of Capiz.
Specifically, it sought to determine the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters: (1) What are the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the Province?; (2) What is the degree of seriousness on the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in term of Human Resources factors, Financial Resources factors and Material Resources factors and as a whole in the province of Capiz?; (3) Is there a significant difference in the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz in terms of location of fire station in the Province of Capiz?; (4) Is there significant relationship on the three factors such as Human Resources, Financial Resources and Material Resources in the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in Province of Capiz.
The null hypotheses of this study were the following:
There is no significant difference in the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz in terms of location of fire station in the Province of Capiz.
There is no significant relationship on the three problems encountered such as Human Resources, Financial Resources and Material Resources and the degree of seriousness on the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in Province of Capiz.
The data needed for the study were gathered with the use of the researcher-made instrument. The data-gathering instrument was composed of two parts. Part I, it gathered the respondent’s socio-demographic profile which includes sex, age, civil status, and length of service. Part II, these are the items that described the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the province of Capiz. Participants were asked to check the appropriate column that corresponded to their choice that best interpreted their perception.
Findings
Statistics revealed that out of 139 respondents, majority 110 or 79.14% were males and the remaining
twenty-nine (29) or 20.86 % were females. If the respondents were classified according to age, none of the respondents was twenty-one (21) years old and below. Eighty-five (85) or 61.15% of the respondents were twenty-two to forty (22 - 40) years old and the remaining fifty-four (54) or 38.85% of the respondents were forty-one (41) years old and above. In terms of civil status, forty-eight (48) or 34.53% of the respondents were single. Ninety (90) or 64.75% of the respondents were married and the remaining one (1) or 0.72%
of the respondents were either widowed or widower. In terms of length of service, eighty-nine (89) or 64.03% of the respondents had eight (8) years and below of service, thirty-three (33) or 23.74% of the respondents had nine to fifteen (9 - 15) years of service and the remaining seventeen (17) or 12.23% of the respondents had sixteen (16) years and above of service. The degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters, as revealed by the overall mean of 2.84 is
“Fairly Serious”. The result implied that all problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the province of Capiz has somehow significant in the performance of their duties.
Results revealed that there was no significant difference existed in the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz when the location of fire station is taken into consideration, Tabular F value, F0.05 (9 – 40) = 3.02 was greater than the Computed F Value (1.107). This indicated that, the respondents, regardless of their location of fire station, has the same perception on the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters. Thus the hypothesis which stated that there is no significant difference in the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz in terms of location of fire station in the Province of Capiz was accepted.
Lastly, data revealed that there is a significant relationship across the 3 categorical variables used to determine the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz, χ2 = 81.777 significantly greater than the critical value of χ2 = 15. 507 at eight (8) df and significance level of 0.05. This indicates that Human Resources, Material Resources and Financial Resources are significantly related to one another. Thus, the hypothesis
which states that there is no significant relationship on the three factors such as Human Resources, Financial Resources and Material Resources in the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in Province of Capiz was rejected.
Conclusions
Considering the findings of the study, the researchers concluded that the most common encountered problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the Province of Capiz are the statements with the greatest mean across the 3 categories, Human Resources, Material Resources and Financial Resources are stated as follows respectively: firefighters are unable to communicate properly through radio communication with a mean of 3.14, The current Bureau of Fire Protection does not utilize advanced firefighting technology such as specific chemicals to specific type of fire (e.g. Aqueous Film Forming Foams (AFFFs) to Class B Fire, FM-200 to Class C Fire) with a mean of 3.05 and The Bureau of Fire Protection do not have a standard disbursement to personnel training and facility management leading to a under trained firemen and old or lacking facilities with a mean of 3.65.
Findings revealed that the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the Province of Capiz in the category of Human Resources was “Fairly Serious” with an average mean of 2.68, whereas in the category of Material Resources was
“Fairly Serious” with an average mean of 2.60, and finally, the category of Financial Resources was “Fairly Serious”
with an average mean of 3.25 when the responses were taken categorically.
Findings revealed that the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the Province of Capiz was “Fairly Serious”
when the responses were taken as a whole, with a grand mean of 2.84.
There is no significant difference in the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the province of Capiz when the respondents were classified according to the location of fire station.
Furthermore, there is a significant relationship in the 3 categorized variables such as Human Resources, Material Resources and Financial Resources and the degree of
seriousness of the problems encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the Province of Capiz.
Recommendation
Based on the results and findings of this study, the following recommendations were made:
1 The Bureau of Fire Protection should request for an increase for their allocated budget to improve the performance of the fire officers.
2 The Bureau of Fire Protection should purchase more up-to-date equipments through the government’s Modernization Program.
3 The Bureau of Fire Protection must intensify their Fire Inspection Procedures on buildings in order to stabilize gains as mentioned in Sections 13 and 14 of PD 1185.
Implications
The findings of the present investigation had led to certain implications for practice in relation to the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection firefighters in the province of Capiz.
The degree of seriousness encountered by the Bureau of Fire Protection in the province of Capiz were “Fairly Serious”.
The degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection had no significant difference in terms of the location of fire station.
Lastly, the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered by Bureau of Fire Protection had a significant relationship when the categorical variables Human Resources, Material Resources and Financial Resources are taken into consideration.