HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepjun14.pdfEXHIBIT 2015-17
September 15, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report – June, 2014
There were 42 runs in the month of May. There were 30 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 6
calls in the Town of Ithaca and 6 mutual aid requests. We had 25 EMS runs and 17 fire calls.
There were two minor fires in the village in the month of May. The first was a dryer fire on
Highland Road and the second a report of a fire in the electrical panel on Oakcrest Road. On both
fire we received automatic mutual aid assistance from the Ithaca Fire Department. On both calls
E909 from IFD arrived first on scene followed by our apparatus. Both calls were during the day
when we were short on in station coverage. We are grateful to IFD for their assistance on both of
these incidents. We were requested mutual aid six times as well through the month to both Ithaca
and Lansing.
Training in May focused on engine company operations. We worked on hose advancem ents and
proper stream choice for fire situations late in the month. The first week in we did a vehicle
extrication training. At this training we had a minivan that we turned on its side and practiced
stabilization and extrication of patients from the overturned vehicle. We got cleared by the
medical director for our basic EMTs to use nasally injected narcan for heroin overdoses and we
will do that training the first week in June. We are seeing an upswing in heroin use in this area
and we actually had a patient overdose and go into cardiac arrest in April and quick CPR and
narcan administration saved the patient. Our ALS providers have always been able to administer
narcan both nasally and intravenously.
We held our graduates dinner for our members in May. We have this dinner annually at the
station to say thank you and goodbye to our firefighters and EMTs who dedicated their time while
attending school in Ithaca. The dinner is for the members and their families and is very well
attended each year. We really enjoy this event as it is the first time many of us get to meet the
parents and show our appreciation to them for sending their children to Ithaca. We graduated five
seniors at Cornell this year but luckily two of them are staying. Rob Shepherd is staying in Ithaca
and working and Alex Gresov was accepted to a PHD program at Cornell and will be with us for
several more years.
The two new bunkers have moved into the station and are settling in nicely. Alex Bernabei just
completed his interior firefighter checklist and Alex Gresov is well along on hers. We currently
have seven bunkers, six of them are interior firefighters and four of them are EMTs. We are very
happy with the staffing at the station at this time.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent