HomeMy WebLinkAboutrepjune15.pdfSeptember 3, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report June 2015
We continued to be steady through the month of June with a total of 44 calls . There were 21 calls in the Village
of Cayuga Heights, 18 calls in the Town of Ithaca and 5 mutual aid requests. We had 22 EMS runs and 22 fire
calls. On June 12th we were very steady through the evening and night after a storm moved through the village
and took trees and power lines down in several locations. For these incidents we secured the areas and waited for
NYSEG to arrive and restore service to residents. Later in the month we were requested mutual aid to Lansing for
a working structure fire. We responded promptly and arrived first to the fire. The crew from E202 initiated attack
on a fully involved trailer with a full size addition. We had two crews that did a rapid knock down on the fire and
then after water supply was established from a hydrant 1000 feet away we worked with firefighters from Lansing
and Dryden and mopped up hot spots. We were on scene from 0230 to 0530. There were several of us who were
pretty tired that day at our regular jobs.
June trainings were great. We did extrication training with a couple of cars in the back parking lot at the station
that went very well. Late in the month we participated in another multi agency FAST (firefighter assist and
search team) training. We hold these trainings on months that have a fifth Tuesday. The departments involved in
this were from Cortlandville, the Town of Dryden and Cayuga Heights. We get together with these other teams to
keep our skills sharp and go over new techniques that other departments are trying out. We use these as not only
a great evening of intense training but also as a way to get to know the other departments better.
Summer projects are progressing through the planning stage. We are looking forward to getting the front pad
project under way and having the new concrete driving surface. The blacktop r esurfacing of the rest of the
parking lot will be great to have done. The cracks in the lot are very noticeable at this point. We understand that
SuitKote will do this while they are working on road projects in the village. We will work with the DPW to get a
plan together for the siding project at 825 Hanshaw some time this summer. The contracts for the new truck are
signed and we are planning a trip to the KME facility in late July to get the pre -build conference done and get the
truck moving through production.
We have been working on a recruiting plan for the Fall 2015 class. Cornell has asked us to come over and do a
Safety Fair in late August on North Campus for the incoming freshmen. We will use this opportunity to get the
word out about the department. We have also been using the Movies at the Fire Station as a way to get the word
out about he department. Many of the people who have been coming to movie night who are unfamiliar with the
department are amazed that we are a volunteer organization. We are hoping to have a decent number of local and
college recruits for the class starting in October.
Movie Night at the Fire Station has been a great success. Our first night we had about 80 in attendance and our
second night had about half that number but it was leading into the July 4th holiday weekend so we expected to
have less that night. We were able to get The Smash Truck to commit to most of the nights through the summer
and that has been a great hit. We will take July 16th off because many of us will be out at Grassroots and then
have our last movie on August 13th. This event has been fantastic and as I said previously, we have been getting
the word out about the department to those in attendance.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent