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ANNUAL REPORT
2005
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E Ithaca, NY 14850
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March 30, 2006
Mayor Walter Lynn and the
Board of Trustees for the Village of Cayuga Heights
The following is the Annual Report of the Cayuga Heights Fire Department for 2005.
2005 was a great year for the Cayuga Heights Fire Department. We ran 468 alarms for
the year. There were 240 runs in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 180 runs in the Town of
Ithaca and we responded mutual aid 48 times this year. We had 233 Emergency Medical
calls, 13 motor vehicle crashes, 4 ;structure fires and 218 other type calls. Other type calls
are classified as fire alarm activations, water problems investigations and many types of
"other" calls. So the breakdown for fire vs. EMS is 233 medical calls and 235 fire calls.
This is the 50150 split that we keep talking about with fire calls vs. EMS calls. Medical
calls continue to dominate our responses. Our response times continue to be well under
the national average. For 2005 we responded with an average out the door time of 2.8
minutes with an average of 11.48 :members per call. The total for man hours,just for call
coverage, in 2005 was 3,063 personnel hours. The service that the village receives from
an all volunteer department is absolutely amazing. In a time when most departments are
unable to get volunteer firefighters and EMTs because of increased training requirements
and time commitments we continue to have a waiting list because of our reputation as an
excellent department. While we continue to be primarily student based we are still
actively looking for community members to help fill our ranks.
The Cayuga Heights Fire Department responds to more mutual aid calls then all other
departments in Tompkins County. We responded 48 times for requests from help from
our neighbors in 2005. We went to Ithaca 26 times, Lansing 16 times, Varna twice,
Dryden twice and to the Tompkins County Airport twice. We are very proud of the fact
that our neighbors recognize the Cayuga Heights Fire Department as an asset that they
are able to call in a time of need. 'We are the FAST team for the departments in the town
of Dryden and the Lansing and Varna Fire Departments have put us on First Alarm
Assignment for structure fires in their districts. The ability to put a fire truck on the road
staffed with qualified interior fire fighters in a very short amount of time every time the
request is made is almost unheard of in a volunteer fire department these days. That
coupled with the ability to also cover our own district at the same time is miraculous.
"HELP 1PREViEJVT FIRES"
The men and women of this fire department take pride in being able to do this and are to
be commended for their dedication.
We continue to focus on training. Since we are such a transient department we place a
very strong emphasis on training. Our average member spends 2.5 years with the
department so we have very strict training requirements. All incoming firefighters still
have to take either Scene Support Operations which is a short course on general fire
ground operations or Fire Fighter 1 which gives the -trainee all the skills to become an
interior fire fighter. Once the trainee finishes the classes then they come to department
trainings and must display proficiency on all they teamed before we clear them to be
interior or exterior fire fighters. The volunteer firefighters of this department took 2455
man hours of in-house training this year and 2178 man hours of New York State training
in 2005. That is a total of 4633 hours or averaged per fire fighter that comes out to
105.32 hours of training per VOLUNTEER firefighter. We were offered a great
opportunity by Warren Real Estate this fall. They offered us an empty structure to train
in. This department does not get the chance to train in acquired structures due to our
locale. We used the house on Triphammer Road for several months practicing our skills
again and again. We would like to thank Warren Real Estate for this opportunity.
Our bunking program continues to be a shining star for the Cayuga Heights Fire
Department. We have seven dedicated bunkers living at the station. The quality service
that the bunkers provide give the village in incalculable. We have gotten many requests
from fire departments all over the state asking for information on how we run our
bunking program. All of the bunker rooms are full at this time. Every bunker in the
station at this time is an interior certified fire fighter and four of the seven are EMTs.
The bunkers continue to be the people who staff the first due engine in the middle of the
night or ensure that the rescue truck rolls from the station fully staffed in the middle of
the night. Our members who do not live in the station respond to staff the other apparatus
for calls but our ability to get the first engine out cant be underestimated. We benefit
from this on every call.
All of our trucks are currently in great shape. We replaced Ladder 231 this past year and
it is in service and working very well for us at this itime. We are looking forward to
replacing Rescue 241 this coming year. We have outgrown our current rescue truck and
due to a windfall from a former member we are able to look at purchasing a new truck
outside of the budgetary process. We hope to get this new truck in service by early
summer. This new rescue vehicle will replace the aging Rescue 241 and allow us to
place all the new required equipment in a vehicle large enough to handle it all.
Last fall the members of the fire department along with Bolton Point inspected the fire
hydrants in the Village of Cayuga Heights. We identified that this had not been done in
over 10 years. We identified that many areas of the village were in need of some f urther
investigation due to low fire flows from the hydrants. We passed our information along
to the village engineers office and he in conjunction with TJ Millers Engineering Finn are
currently in the process of investigating this problem further. We plan to inspect the
hydrants in the Town of Ithaca in the summer of 2006. We will, in the future, do hydrant
testing much more often. Lt. Joe Lisi worked for the village engineer's office last
summer and a major part of his job was to perform fire inspections. We were very
pleased with the diligence he showed this project. He inspected the fraternities and
sororities of the district as well as other high occupancy and high use buildings. We also
look forward, in the future, of these inspections being done on a regular basis.
We also came to the realization that we need to keep our community aware of their fire
department. The fire department and the fire company have been working very hard and
will continue to work hard on community relations. We have always done our annual
Fire Prevention Week demonstrations at the local schools but we have picked up the pace
of getting the word out of what we do. We open the station to birthday parties for
children in the district. Our members help the parents set up the birthday parties and then
,volunteer their time doing demonstrations for the children. Not only does this get the fire
prevention word out to more children and parents but it also allows the parents to see
what the fire department is all about. We always hope that a mother or father will decide
that they have the time to volunteer and join the department. In 2006 the fire company is
planning to start community outreach programs aimed at CPR certification for residents
of the fire district. These classes will be offered free of charge to the community. We
have our annual open house and pancake breakfasts also aimed at public relations and
getting the word out for fire prevention.
Our membership remains strong. We have looked forward at our membership needs for
the next several years and decided that in 2006/2007 we will run and fall and spring
recruit classes. We have identified that with our heavy student membership we keep our
student members for an average of 2.5 years. We have had a 95% turnover rate in the
department in the past five years. Out of 45 members of the department at the January
2006 annual OSHA training only 4 members had been with the department longer then
four years. This is a shocking number and we are working very hard at recruitment of
community members.
We at the fire department are dedicated to our mission of providing a very high level of
fire and EMS protection to our community. The officers and firefighters of the Cayuga
Heights Fire Department are proud of our accomplishments over the past year and look
forward to improving our services in the coming year. We again would like to thank the
village board for the support that you have given us this past year. Without the support of
the Village of Cayuga Heights and the Town of Ithaca our mission would be impossible.
Thank You.
Sincere y,
G ge Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Superintendent
Fire Department:55002
Cayuga Heights Fire Department Companies:All
Date Range:From 01/01/2005 to 12/31/2005
Box/Zone/Code:All
District:All
Incident Totals by Time of Day Situation Found:All
Exclude Mutual Aids:No
Exclude Exposures:No
Time of Day Call Avg
Count Attend
00:00 - 00:59 _ 14 11.5
01:00 - 01:59 11 11.2
02:00 - 02:59 _^ 18 8.8
03:00 - 03:59 10 8.9
04:00 - 04:59 _ 12 10.1
05:00 - 05:59 1 5 13.4
06:00 - 06:59 11 14.7
07:00 - 07:59 14 10.0
08:00 - 08:59 24 10.3
09:00 - 09:59 ] 30 10.7
10:00 - 10:59 25 9.5
11:00 - 11:59 - 25 10.3
12:00 - 12:59 j 26 9.7
13:00 - 13:59 19 10.2
14:00 - 14:59 j 28 13.1
15:00 - 15:59 26 12.4
16:00 - 16:59 _ 26 16.0
17:00 - 17:59 - J 31 14.1
18:00 - 18:59 31 14.4
19:00 - 19:59 - J 17 14.2
20:00 - 20:59 _. 19 14.2
21:00 - 21:59 l 18 13.4
22:00 - 22:59 18 .13.4
23:00 - 23:59 10 11.8
Date: 01/01/2006 Page: 1 Time: 2:36 PM
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Fire Department:55002
Cayuga Heights Fire Department Companies:All
Date Range:From 01/01/2005 to 12/31/2005
Box/Zone/Code:All
Incident Reponse Performance Analysis District:All
Situation Found:All
Exclude Mutual Aids:No
Exclude Exposures:No
Response Time
Response Time
(Minutes) Number of Incidents Totals Additional
0- 1 8 6
Longest Time: 16.0
2-3 262
Incident#: 050431
4-5 84
6-7 24 Average Time: 2.8
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Travel Time
(Minutes) FNumbercidents Totals Additional
0-4 373
5-9 77 Longest Time: 15.0
Incident#: 050055
10- 14 16
15- 19 2 Average Time: 3.4
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Incident Length
(Minutes) Number of Incidents Totals Additional
0-29 402
Longest Time: 510.0
30-59 45
Incident#: 050145
60-89 6
90- 119 6 Average Time: 22.0
120- 149 3
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