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September 9, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report – January, 2011
2011 started out very busy with 58 calls for the month. We had 38 calls in the Village of
Cayuga Heights, 14 in the Town of Ithaca and 6 mutual aid requests. We had 38 EMS
calls and 20 fire calls. It was a pretty routine month for the department.
We did not do many organized trainings through the month of January because of the
winter break but we did to countless hours of checklist work with the probationary
members. Many of the probies came back to Ithaca early to work on checklists. This
process needs to be done by February 13th in order for them to remain in the department.
We have been very pleased with their progress and foresee all but two of them finishing.
Most of those from the fall class are taking the Firefighter 1 class starting in February.
We had our annual OSHA/Blood borne Pathogens/CPR recertification training on
January 29th. We had 42 members attend this required training day. We started early in
the day and at the half way point we all went to the climbing wall at Cornell for 2 hours
of rock climbing. This was a great team building exercise and broke up the day nicely.
We are starting our spring recruit drive in February. We are planning on a class of less
then 10 new members. This will allow us to work closely with a smaller class to get
them through much of their training before the end of May.
In January we started to have major problems with the treadmill and elliptical in the gym
at the station. It was determined that the treadmill would require a major overhaul to get
it running again and the elliptical was not far behind. At the January meeting of the fire
company it was decided to replace both pieces of equipment. We contacted Advantage
Sport and Fitness and purchased the equipment at a cost of nearly 11K. This project was
completely funded by the fire company.
Looking forward to the spring we are getting ready to start the planning for the yard sale.
The date we are looking at is May 21st this year. A representative of the fire company
will be attending the March Board of Trustees meeting to request permission to hold this
event again. We are also planning to hold a pancake breakfast at the station some time in
April. This would be a free pancake breakfast open to the public. Every couple of years
we have one of these events. It allows us to open the station to the public in the spring.
Things at the fire station seem to going well. We recently had some cleaning done on the
hoods in the kitchen. They were cleaned and inspected by a company out of Syracuse.
We had some plumbing work done in the truck bays on our wall mounted hose reels.
One was leaking and we had it replumbed and that seemed to fix the problem and the
other reel we replaced completely. All of our apparatus is in good working order. We
did order five more sets of turnout gear. This new gear will go to recent graduates of the
Fall Firefighter 1 class and their gear will go to the new members in the spring recruit
class. The current plan is to replace another five sets in June.
We currently stand at 48 active members of the department. This is a great number to be
at. This year we will lose six members when they graduate from Cornell. We will fill
those ranks with members from the spring class. Assistant Chief Matt Abbinanti has had
a change of plans and will stay in the area and with the department after graduation this
year. This is good news for the department.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent
EMERGENCY CALLS: 58 TOTAL CALLS YEAR TO DATE: 58
Total Calls – 58 Fire Calls – 20 EMS Calls - 38
Total Mutual Aid – 6
Calls in the Village – 38 Calls in the Town – 14
TRAINING / MEETINGS / EVENTS:
1/29 – Department Mandatory OSHA Training and CPR certification
UPCOMING EVENTS:
2/1 – Fire/EMS Training
2/9 – Fire Training – Fire Behavior
2/13 – Fire Council
2/16 – Fire Training – FAST
2/24 – Recruit Training
3/12 – Recruit Training
4/3 – Annual Elections
4/9 – Recruit Training
4/16 – Recruit Training
4/23 – Annual Installation Banquet