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ANNUAL REPORT
2006
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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 2006.
In 2006 the Cayuga Heights Fire Department had a record year. We ran 583 calls for the
year. There were 273 runs in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 182 runs in the Town of
Ithaca and we responded to 128 requests for mutual aid. There were 4 structure fire calls,
I I motor vehicle crashes, 269 EMS calls and 299 other type incidents. "Other type
incidents" fall into the category of calls such as fire alarm activations, power lines down,
flooded basements, brush fires, spills, cooking fires etc... These types of calls are the
majority of non EMS related incidents that the department responds to. Some of these
calls take the most amount of time on scene. Flooded basements and wires down calls
require an enormous time commitment. We had a huge increase in the number of mutual
aid responses this past year. The major contributing factor to this came from the closure
of the Thurston Avenue Bridge and the request from the Ithaca Fire Department that we
respond to calls north of Fall Creek. They realized that their response times were going
to be affected by their need to take a circuitous route to get to calls in the city of Ithaca
north of the creek. This led them to request that the Cayuga Heights Fire Department be
dispatched on the first alarm to calls in their district. We did this through the summer and
fall until the bridge was reopened northbound in early winter and they could again
respond in a timely manner. We will pick up the automatic mutual aid again in the spring
when the bridge is once again closed for construction. We also responded to many
requests from our other neighbors for assistance during incidents. Our FAST team
responds automatically to structure fires in the Town of Dryden. This team is used to
rescue firefighters should they become incapacitated during operations. We sent several
teams of firefighters to Broome County last June to provide assistance during the
flooding. Crews were assigned for three days to this detail. Emergency medical calls
make up close to 50% of our responses. Many of our members are EMTs and several are
currently taking or are planning to take advanced level classes to continue our tradition of
Advanced Life Support capability.
"HELP PREVENT FIRES"
In running the statistics for 2006 we continue to have excellent responses times. Our
average response time for 2006 was 3.0 minutes from time of alarm to apparatus
response. We responded to every single alarm that we were dispatched to for the year.
We had an average an average of 10.6 firefighters per call. The average length of a call
for the department is 48 minutes per call with a total of 2,937 man hours spent on calls.
This number only reflects the amount of time that the members were in the fire trucks, it
does not reflect the amount of time spent cleaning equipment after each run and making
sure that it is ready for the next response.
The volunteers of the Cayuga Heights Fire Department put together 52 in house trainings
in 2006. Our firefighters put in 2283 man hours of training at the fire station.
Additionally we attended state and national trainings totaling 1954 man hours of training
outside the station. This is a total of 4337 man hours of training for 2006. This number
does not include the countless hours of EMS training done at other sites for our EMS
providers to maintain certification. Our EMT's must complete continuing education
hours every six months as well as prove skills proficiency to evaluators. Many of our
trainings take place at the county training center and involve live fire evolutions. All of
our officers have taken the required classes that allow us to train with live fire.
Our membership remains strong. Due to an excellent recruiting program spearheaded by
Asst. Chief Marshall Stocker we have enough members to respond to emergencies. The
recruitment program last fall allowed us to choose 15 new members from a list of more
then 30. We started the Fall 2006 Recruit Class with these handpicked new members.
History had taught us that if we started a class with 15 then we would not keep all of
them through the training process. This class proved us wrong. All 15 of the recruits
completed the training program. Of the 15 new members 14 took the New York State
Firefighter One class (one of the recruits had the class already from his previous
department). This course is taught by State Fire Instructors and is 78 hours long. We
look forward to all of these members graduating from these classes. With this class we
also set a deadline for completion of probation checklist of the second week in February.
We have never set a deadline date for checklist completion in the past and this has led, at
times, of some members taking a very long time to complete checklists. This class again
exceeded expectations and all new recruits were off probation in the required amount of
time. In looking forward to gains in membership and losses in membership for 2007 we
have decided not to run a Spring 2007 recruit class. We are building a waiting list for
Fall 2007 and look forward to continued success with this program. In the Spring of
2006 we had several people with significant prior experience apply for membership. Fire
Council at that time decided to go out of the normal recruiting process and we accepted
these five members. This worked out very well for us. All five members have
contributed immensely to our operations and one of these members is running for an
officer's position in the April elections.
In 2006 we received a gift to the fire department from a former member George
Hanselman. Mr. Hanselman was a long time member of the department and had held
many positions in the company and the department. Mr. and Mrs. Hanselman left money
in a trust for the Cayuga Heights Fire Department. Working with the village the fire
department used these funds to purchase our new rescue truck. It was determined that we
had outgrown our old rescue truck. With all of the equipment that we are required to
carry to keep our ALS Certification the Jeep was not meeting our needs. We purchased a
2007 Chevrolet Suburban from Bill Cooke Chevrolet and then sent it to Admiral
Specialty Vehicles in Danby for outfitting. We placed this vehicle in service in May
2006 and have been very pleased with it. The reliable Jeep is still in service with the
department as a utility vehicle. It is used as a backup EMS vehicle and a command
vehicle.
All of our other trucks are running well. As with any fleet of vehicles we have
maintenance issues but Lt. Joe Lisi and Jeff Frisbee have worked together to come up
with an excellent preventive maintenance program and we are experiencing less major
problems then we did several years ago. E203 had a fan and motor break apart last
summer but the major cost of this was picked up by the warranty. The problem happened
one week prior to the warranty running out. We were fortunate in this instance.
The bunking program is still strong. All of the rooms are full and the bunkers continue to
staff the first due apparatus in the middle of the night. This is a very successful program
and has led to many discussions with fire chiefs in our area and in other municipalities.
With declining volunteer numbers around the country departments are looking for ways
to cover calls in their districts. The number of bunker programs across the country is
increasing. These programs are an asset to the communities they serve and ours is an
excellent example of a successful program.
We are still working with the Village Engineers Office to work toward a resolution to the
water supply problem in the lower village. TG Millers is developing plans with the
village and Bolton Point to replace some of the existing system as well as adding some
lines to boost the flow in certain areas of the village. We are pleased with the intent of
the project and will continue to work toward improving the water flow to the entire
district. We were not able to inspect the hydrants in the Town of Ithaca last fall. We do
hope to get this off the ground in the spring. Once we get all the hydrants tested we will
work toward getting them painted and clearing brush away from the hydrants and making
sure they are all clearly marked.
Fire Prevention is still a major focus of the department. We continue to go to the schools,
much like the DARE program, to push fire prevention. This is a very successful
program. Fire Prevention programs have been directly linked to the decrease in house
fires and deaths from fire. When we go into the schools and the older children point and
call you by name means that we are impacting them in a positive way. Our community is
very important to our department. We are constantly hosting community events at the
department and community organizations use the station for their meetings. This allows
the public to see what how the department functions to benefit our community.
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.
Sincerely,
Geo ge Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Superintendent
Fire Department:55002
Cayuga Heights Fire Department Companies:All
Date Range:From 01/01/2006 to 12/31/2006
Box/Zone/Code:All
District:All
Incident Totals by Time of Day Situation Found:A110 Exclude Mutual Aids:N
Exclude Exposures:No
Time of Day Call Avg
Count Attend
00:00 - 00:59 19 9.5
01:00 - 01:59 24 9.3
02:00 - 02:59 18 9.4
03:00 - 03:59 _ 14 9.4
04:00 - 04:59 14 8.6
05:00 - 05:59 9 11.7
06:00 - 06:59 11 8.5
07:00 - 07:59 12 10.8
08:00 - 08:59 22 7.7
09:00 - 09:59 33 8.6
10:00 - 10:59 32 10.5
11:00 - 11:59 28 9.4
12:00 - 12:59 40 11.0
13:00 - 13:59 55 10.5
14:00 - 14:59 29 10.8
15:00 - 15:59 32 11.4
16:00 - 16:59 28 12.7
17:00 - 17:59 28 12.3
18:00 - 18:59 _ 26 12.5
19:00 - 19:59 33 14.0
20:00 - 20:59 31 13.8
21:00 - 21:59 15 15.5
22:00 - 22:59 16 12.8
23:00 - 23:59 14 11.8
Date: 01/06/2007 Page: 1 Time: 5:08 PM
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Cayuga Heights Fire Department Companies:All
Date Range:From 01/01/2006 to 12/31/2006
Box/Zone/Code:All
District:All
Incident Reponse Performance Analysis Situation Found:All
Exclude Mutual Aids:No
Exclude Exposures:No
Response Time
Response Time
(Minutes) Number of Incidents Totals Additional
0-1 102 Longest Time: 21.0
2-3 312 Incident#: 2006-060332
4-5 96
Average Time: 3.0
6-7 35
8-9 11
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Apparatus Travel Time
Travel Time
(Minutes) Number of Incidents Totals Additional
0-4 479 Longest Time: 115.0
5.9 67 Incident#: 2006-060267
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15-19 3
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Incident Length
Incident Length
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o-29 " 5oa Longest Time: 3600.0
30-59 41 Incident#: 2006-060267
60-89 8
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120-149 3
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Date: 01/06/2007 Page: 1 Time: 5:15 PM
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