HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepmay15.pdfEXHIBIT 2016-024
September 3, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report May 2015
The pace picked up in May with a total of 51 calls. There were 26 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 22 fire calls. For as busy as the
month was it was pretty routine for us with many EMS runs logged.
Spring training wound down in May. Many of our exterior members used the spring training sessions to complete
checklist work and are getting prepared to move up to interior status. We have set the dates for the fall recruit
class and are already getting inquiries from interested candidates. We are excited about the fall class and
anticipate a large class as we did not do a Spring 2015 program. Many of our members have been training hard
through the spring with state fire classes. We had three firefighters graduate from Firefighter 1 in May. This
grueling 108 hour class held over 4 months prepares the graduating member to be an interior firefighter. We have
had several members take Rescue Tech Basic (rope rescue), Swift Water Rescue, Advanced Vehicle Extrication
Training (AVET) and two of our volunteers finished the NYS EMT class. It has been a busy spring.
In May we did replace three of the air handling units at the station. This was a very extensive project. The units
had originally been ceiling mounted and thus very hard to work on if not running well or the filters needed to be
changed. HSC Associates recommended moving them from the ceiling to the floor which is the route we chose.
Moving the units to the floor cut down on the space in the bunker storage room where the units are located but
makes them more accessible. They all seem to be working well at this time. We will work on replacing air
handling unit 2 which is going to be the most problematic due to its location above the ceiling in the ladies room
in the bunker area. This unit is not working well and on warm days the rooms that this unit services are not being
cooled at all. We are looking forward to June and getting the other planned capital projects going.
We did graduate six firefighters in May from Cornell. We had our annual graduate’s dinne r for the families and
as always it was a great night. We got the opportunity to meet the families of the men and women who spent
several years volunteering with the department. Several of them had expressed their desire to continue the
volunteer experience when they settle into new communities. As with every graduating class I strongly
encouraged them to look into the Masters and PHD programs at Cornell as a way to continue their commitment to
volunteer firefighting!
Looking ahead to the summer months we had the bid opening for the new truck on June 4th and will be meeting
with KME, the only vendor to submit a bid, before the June Board Meeting on the 15th to present the final cost for
the project. Movie Night at the Fire Station is all set to start on June 25th. We decided the first movie of the
summer will be The Sandlot. We have been in contact with several food truck vendors and think we may have a
commitment from a couple different trucks through the summer. Everybody is pretty excited about thi s event and
we hope it becomes a popular Thursday evening for folks in the area.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent