HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepnov14.pdfEXHIBIT 2015-061
September 16, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report November, 2014
We had a total of 49 runs on November. There were 26 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 16
calls in the Town of Ithaca and 7 mutual aid requests. We had 31 EMS runs and 18 fire calls. We
had a fairly steady month with a mix of fire and EMS calls. On the 22 nd of November we were
asked if we would be able to staff a SEFU (State Emergency Fire Unit) to deploy to the Buffalo area
after the epic storm they had earlier in that week. A SEFU is a four wheel drive utility vehicle, in
our case U242, that is staffed with three firefighters and a long list of equipment to assist in areas of
disaster. The SEFU carries portable pumps, portable generators, chainsaws, shovels and several
other pieces of loose equipment needed to assist in the affected area. Asst. Chief Joe Price,
Lieutenant Blake Berger and Firefighter Jaden Gladstone staffed the SEFU and deployed for 72
hours. While in the Buffalo area they were assigned to two fire departments where they assisted the
exhausted members of those agencies. Our firefighters cleared fire hydrants of snow, opened
clogged drainage ditches and pumped basements for three days. Jaden and Blake are Cornell
students and delayed their trips home for the holiday to assist with this deployment.
Training went along at a brisk pace in November. We finished the recruit training early in the month
and now the new members are working on checklists to get through that process. All agencies are
still being required to do monthly training for all members on body substance isolation and
decontamination in response to the Ebola crisis. The state mandates that all members must do a
monthly refresher on donning and doffing PPE and this training must be documented. Our Rescue
Director Colleen Price is in charge of this program and is doing an outstanding job with the trainings
and refreshers. We invite anybody interested in observing or participating in this training to join us.
Everything at the station seems to be working well at this time and we thankfully had no major
breakdowns last month.
We hosted the CHES PTA at the station early in November and their event was a great success. We
truly feel that hosting events like this bring the community and the department closer together.
Looking ahead to December we will be slowing down a bit with our training and social
commitments because of the schedule of testing at Cornell and then the long winter break. We will
pick things up again in late January when everybody is back in town with our annual mandatory
OSHA refresher training. We will continue to train but with more emphasis on checklists for those
in the area through the holidays.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent