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Home My WebLink AboutFire Department 2005 Annual Report.PDF*. . i-l . /--\ r-Tr-ft(--lFi Fi ii -( i:r r \ - t _.r__ t= .,,*r \_J t _l_ L lr_) ,1\ \r' -l I f-: / \, ! -\. *r l_, \.-_J /'_r_ " i lTi 'i -' -i-- -l Fr I ii-1 ]:r-r _ tl \*r =_; L) E rD /\ F? -T ld F,-, 1.; T e ANINJAL REPORT 20as C AYU GA T{ E[G[,{TS F [RE, D EPARTMENT n94 Fneasant Cirove Road Xthaea, NY 14E50 (607) 2s7 -2377 March 30,20A6 Mayor Walter Lynn and the Board of Trustees for the Village of Cayuga Heights The following is the Annual Report of the CayugaHeights Fire Department for 2005. 2005 was a great year for the Cayuga Heights Fire Departuent. We ran 468 alarrns 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 Emeryency Medical calls, 13 motor vehicle crashes, 4 structure fires and 218 other type calls. Other type calls are classified as fire alarm activalions, water problems investigations and many types of "other" calls. So the breakdsqrn for fire vs. EMS is 233 medical calls and 235 firocalls. This is the 50/50 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.g minutes with an average of 11.48 .members per call. The totaLfor man hours, just for call coverage, in 2005 was 3,063 personnel hours. The service that the village receives from* ?lJ 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 comrnitnents 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 Deparftnent responds to more mutual aid calls then all other deparfinents 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, Vama twice, Dryden twice and to the Tompkins County Airport twice. We are very proud of the fact that orn neighbors recognize the Cayuga Heights Fire Deparhent as an asset that they are able to call in a time of need. 'We are the FAST team for the deparhnents in the tovmof Dryden and the Lansing and 'Varna Fire Departments have put ,6 on First Alarm Assignment for structure fires in their districts. The ability to put u fir. truck on the road staffed with qualified interior fire fighters in a very short amorurt of time every time the request is made is almost unheard of in a volunteer fire deparhnent these days. That coupled with the ability to also cover our own district at the same time is miraculous. " FI E[,P P REVEI{T F tr R.E,S'' The men and women of this fire deparMent take pride in befurg able to do this and are to be comanended for their dedication. We continue to focus on training. Since we are such a transient departrnent we place a very strong emphasis on training. Our average member spends 2.5 yearc with the departrreent so we have very strict trainireg requirements. dltr incoming firefighters stiltr have to take either Scene Support Operations wXricla is a short oourse on genera"l fue 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 corne to department trainings and nmst dispiay proficiency on al-l they leamed bef,ore we clean tlaem to be interior or exterior fire fighters. The volunteer firefigt*ers of this deparhrnent took 2455 rnan hours of in-house training this year and2778 man hours of New York State training in 2005. That is a totatr of 4633 hours or averaged per fire fighter that comes out to 105.32 laorers of training per VOL{JNTEER firefrghter. We were offered a great oppo*unit'y by Warren Real Estate this fall. They offered us an ernpry stnlcture to train in. This department does not get tho chance to train in acquired structures due to our locale. We used the house on Tripharnrner Road for several months practicing our skills again and again. We would like to thank Wamen Reatr Estate f,or this opportunity. Our bunking program continues to be a shining star for the Cayuga Heights Fire Departrnent. We have seven dedicated bunkers living at the station. The quality service that ttrre bunkers provide give the village in incalculablle. We have gotten many requests from fire departrnents all over the state asking for infomlation on how we run our bunking program. All of the bunker roorns 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 contirue to be the people who staffithe first &re engine in the middle of the night or ensure that the rescue trmck rolls ftono the station futrly staffed in the middtre 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 cart be underestirnated. We benefit from this on every calX. All of our trucks are currently in great shape. V/e replaced Ladder 231 this past year and it is in service and working very well for us at this time. We are looking forward to replacing Rescue 24n this corning year. We have outffown our currellt rescue truck and due to a windfall from a fonner rnenaber we are able to look at purchasing a new truok outside of the budgetary process. We hope to get this new truck in service by early summer. This new rescue vehiole will roplace the aging Resoue 241 and allow us to place all the new required equipment in a vehicle Xarge enough to handle it all. Last fall the rnembers of the fre department along wilh Eolton Point inspected the fire hydrants in the Village of Cayuga F{eights. We identified that this had not been done in over 10 years" We identified that many areas of the village were in need of sorne fruther investigation due to low fire ftrows fronn the hy&ants. We passed our infomration atrong to the village engineers office and he in conjunction wilh TJ k{illers Engineering Firm are curently in the process of investigating this problern further. We plan to inspect the hydrants in the Towrn of,Ithaca in tlae swmmer of 2006. We will, in ttrre future, do hv&ant tosting much more often. Lt. Joe Lisi worked for the village engineer,s office last swnftIer and a *uj91 part of his job was to perfonn fue 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 alsolook forward, in ttre 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 firedepartment. The fire department and the fire company have been working very hard andwill coratinue to work hard on community relations. We have always d-one our annualFire Prevention Week dernonstrations at the locatr schools but we havepicked up the paceof getting the word out of what we do. We open the station to birthday partie* fotchildren in the district. Our members help the parents set up the birthday putti"r and then volunteer their time doing demonstrations for the children. Not onty does this get the fireprevention word out to more children and parents but it also allows the parents to see yhatthe fire department is all about. We always hope that a mother or father wilt decide that they have the time to volunteer and join the departrnent. In 2006 the fire company isplanning to start community outreach prograflrs aimed at CPR. certification for residentsof the file district- These classes wili be offered free of, charge to the conununity. Wehavg ou1 annual open house and panca.tr<e breakfasts also aimed at public relations andgetting the word out for fire prevention. Our membership remains strong. We have looked forward at our membership needs forthe next several years and decided that n 200612A07 we will run and fall and spring recruit classes. We have identified that with our heavy student membership we keep ori student members for an average of 2.5 years. We have had a 95Yo twnoier rate in the 9?qT**t in the past five years. Otrt of 45 members of the departuent at the January 2006 annual OSFIA haining only 4 members had been with the^departnoent longer thenfour years. This is a shocking ntunber and we are working very iard at recruitment of community mernbers. We at the fire deparffient are dedicated to our mission of providing a very higb tevel offire and EMS protection to our connmunity. The officers *a nt"figfrt" -of fre 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 againwould 1i11! to thank thevillage board for the support that you have given us this past year. Without the support of, the Village of Cayuga Ftreiglats and the Town of Ithaca our rnission would be irnpossible. 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