HomeMy WebLinkAboutCHFD Apr Rpt.pdfEXHIBIT 2014-XX
September 16, 2015
Honorable Kate Supron
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report – February, 2014
We had 48 total calls for the month of March. There were 20 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 18
calls in the Town of Ithaca and 10 mutual aid requests. We had 30 EMS runs and 18 fire calls. Early in
the month we responded to several serious mutual aid fires. We were requested to assist at a trailer fire in
Freeville, an industrial fire at a concrete plant in Varna and a business that was on fire in Danby. In all
instances the firefighters from Cayuga Heights performed very well and were instrumental in the
extinguishment of these fires. We again responded to 106 Cayuga Heights Road, the Sigma Chi
Fraternity, in March for an incident with multiple code violations. We stayed on scene until the members
of the fraternity took down the decorations covering smoke detectors and sprinkler heads and made the
building safe for occupancy again. We are again working with Brent and Joe to work through the code
issues as well as the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at Cornell to try to correct the continual
problems. I have been contacted by the president of the fraternity to do a fire safety public education
session with them at the house. We are putting a program together and will try to sit down with them in
the near future.
We had an intense month of training in March. We did our three recruit traini ng sessions over the course
of two weekends. We usually try to spread the training over three weekends but with the class and break
schedule at Cornell we opted to condense it to two. With the small group it worked well and everybody
is now working on checklists. We trained on low visibility searches at the mall training facility on a cold
Wednesday evening. We used the mall facility to search in blackout conditions in a large area. The EMS
training for the month was on airway management and respirator y medications. All of our basic EMTs
are able to administer nebulized albuterol. Due to the recent increase in heroin use the NYS Department
of Health has brought the medication Narcan down to the basic EMT level for nasal administration. We
are developing training for this and will bring all of our providers up to speed on the procedure.
Our annual installation banquet was a success again this year. It was very well attended and a good time
was had by all. All of the officers are now sworn in and performing duties. We will have an officers
meeting some time in April and develop a set of goals for the upcoming year. We did this last year and it
really kept us focused on what we felt we needed to accomplish through the year.
Most of our major tasks for the spring are done. We are looking forward to the weather warming up and
getting the grounds at the station cleaned up. It will be good to open windows and doors and freshen the
station up a bit. We are expecting one bunker room to come open in May when a current bunker
graduates and leaves Ithaca. We have a couple of people who have expressed interest at this time.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent