HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepjuly14.pdfEXHIBIT 2015-022
September 16, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report – July, 2014
June was a busy month with 48 runs. There were 23 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 19 calls in
the Town of Ithaca and 6 mutual aid requests. We had 25 EMS runs and 23 fire calls. The month was
fairly routine with a fairly even number of fire and EMS calls. We did have several calls for wires down
in June after several storms moved through our area. We were called into the city to establish a landing
zone for multiple inbound medical transport helicopters during the incident at Simeons Restaurant. E202
established the landing zone at the high school and stood by for the duration of the incident in case more
air medical assets were needed.
We had several trainings scheduled through the month of June but only managed to get one training
done. We did a night of engine company operations and focused on moving charged handlines. This
training was geared toward getting members working on checklist items for hose movement and packing
sign offs for these tasks. The rest of our regular training nights seemed to be scratched because we kept
getting calls during the time allotted for training. We are planning a joint FAST training with several
local departments including Dryden, Cortlandville and Moravia. We will host this training at the mall.
We have set the dates for the fall recruiting drive and recruit training classes. We hope to have a class of
15 new members for the fall class.
Our summer station and equipment maintenance program is progressing nicely. We did have the station
parking lot sealed and striped, the air conditioning unit replaced in the radio room and the carpets in the
office area replaced. We did take delivery of our new thermal imaging camera, 5 inch supply hose,
pagers and we did order new turnout gear. All of our fire hose was tested and for the first time in many
years we did not have any hose fail testing. All of the heavy pieces of apparatus are scheduled for
maintenance for the third week in July. One of the station’s air handling units has broken. The unit that
controls the heat and air conditioning in the kitchen/training room has a broken water coil and the unit is
apparently old enough that there are no replacement parts. HAS Associates is working on a solution for
us.
Cayuga Landscape came to the station and cleaned up the gardens in front of the station. We had the
large stone ball that had been a working fountain removed because it had not been working for two
years. We had them remove the water pool under the ball and fill it in with stone because it had been a
breeding ground for mosquitoes since the fountain stopped working. There were several dead bushes
removed and a couple replacements put in to clean up the look of the area. This garden was put in after
2001 as a 911 Memorial Garden donated by the Ithaca Garden Club.
In a meeting with our public safety committee we discussed using money from the Hanselman Trust to
purchase a 2015 Tahoe for the department. We hope to get approval to move forward with this project
at the July board meeting. The Tahoe will be coming open on state contract in the near future and the
window to order the vehicle will not be open long. We would like to order the vehicle and get it
outfitted locally and put it in service.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent