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HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepmay14.pdfEXHIBIT 2015-006 September 16, 2015 Honorable Kate Supron Board of Trustees Village of Cayuga Heights Monthly Report – May, 2014 We had 46 total calls for the month of April. There were 21 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 20 calls in the Town of Ithaca and 5 mutual aid requests. We had 29 EMS runs and 27 fire calls. Our EMTs had a busy month in April. We responded to three separate calls through the month for patients in cardiac arrest. In all three cases we performed C PR and advanced life support procedures and working with Bangs Ambulance and regained pulses prior to the patients arriving at the hospital. It was an amazing month for our EMS providers. April was a great month for training. Early in the month we did our annual SCBA recertification. All firefighters in the department must recertify annually with our self-contained breathing apparatus. Exterior firefighters are required to demonstrate their proficiency in donning the SBA. Interior firefighters must demonstrate that they can don the SCBA, perform full and partial escapes to get through confined areas, do a search in a dark room and then use the bail-out system to exit a second floor and rappel to the ground. All department firefighters must do this recertification to maintain membership. Late in the month we did a joint training with the FAST teams from the Dryden and Cortlandville Fire Departments. We did this training with these departments because we work closely with Dryden on scenes and Cortlandville is the primary mutual aid department from the north side of the Town of Dryden. This was a fantastic training and we are planning to do this agai n this summer. Bangs Ambulance came to the station in April for a training on ambulance operations. We try to do this training annually with Bangs. There was also a training on penetrating trauma offered through Cayuga Medical Center with Dr. Anthony Hsu. Several of our EMTs attended the training. With the approval of the Village budget we have started to schedule the projects that were budgeted for. In June we will have the driveway sealed and striped, the air conditioning unit replaced the in the radio room and the carpet replaced in the office area. We will order all of the budgeted equipment for delivery through the summer. We have two bunkers who have lived at the station for two years who are leaving in May. When we posted the rooms to the department we immediately had several members who applied for the bunking positions. Fire Council looked through the candidates and chose two firefighters to fill the rooms. We also had several members who have requested to bunk over the summer while tak ing fire and EMS classes in the area. We will be fully staffed at the station through the summer. We are very pleased with the staffing at the department at this time. Sincerely, George Tamborelle Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent