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HomeMy WebLinkAboutfeb2004report.pdf February 7, 2004 Honorable Walter Lynn, Mayor Board of Trustees Village of Cayuga Heights Monthly Report – January, 2004 The Cayuga Heights Fire Department started strong for the new year. Our call total for January 2004 was 32. We ran 13 EMS calls, 15 fire calls, 2 motor vehicle crashes and 2 mutual aid calls. Our fire calls for the month included several calls for burst pipes due to the extreme cold last month. The cold weather definitely made operations more difficult last month. Several of our members, led by Nathaniel Cisne, have been working diligently to try and keep fire hydrants clear of snow. We responded to Ithaca once and the Tompkins County Airport once for mutual aid. We had 11 calls in the Town of Ithaca and 19 in the village. At our company meeting in February we voted to accept fifteen new members into our department. These new members will start their training on the 28th of this month with our spring 2004 Recruit Training Program. Again there is a mix of permanent residents as well as students. We continue to grow as a department. This latest group was carefully screened and fully informed as to the requirements prior to being voted into the department hopefully allowing us to retain the majority of them as fully certified firefighters by the beginning of the summer. With recruitment comes retention and our retention program is flourishing. We had 12 people start the last recruit class and 9 finished. Of the nine who finished three can be considered permanent residents of the area, and of the fifteen starting this current class three are permanent residents. While these numbers seem small right now, this trend bodes very well for our long term retention program. If we continue to retain four firefighters per year for more then three years our long term membership numbers will continue to grow. Assistant Chief Marshall Stocker is currently working with the fraternities and sororities in our district to put together a fire safety and prevention lecture with these organizations. He has three lectures scheduled at this time. This is a program he has been preparing for several months to better educate the college students and house parents to live safely in these high occupancy buildings. He is also working on a lecture to deliver to the residents of Kendal at Ithaca. The bid document for the ladder truck went out on January 31st. We mailed the document to seven vendors who had expressed interest in bidding for this truck. We have heard back from one vendor who came to take pictures and look over the current ladder truck for their bid. The exhaust system bid will go out as soon as we hear back from the department of labor on prevailing wages. Tyler Fire Equipment came to the fire station to demonstrate the Thermal Imaging Camera that we are looking at. The demonstration was very impressive and we will order this camera within the next week. The Thermal Imaging Camera we will purchase is the same camera that the surrounding departments use and will allow us to be more integrated in the area of mutual aid. The fire trucks are all in good working order at this time. We had some work done on the transmission of 202 but this was a maintenance issue that we have now resolved. We are in the process of working with several vendors to get estimates for scheduled maintenance contracts for our equipment. The rear door to the fire station sustained damage two years ago during a wind storm and we are going to have to have the entire frame and door replaced. We are in the process of getting a written estimate for this work. The new year has not allowed us to slow down at all. We continue to train and respond to calls. We have a great membership who continuously respond to every call in a timely manner, come to trainings, perform community events and there is always somebody working on a project at the station. The fire station is a living entity. Sincerely, George Tamborelle Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent EMERGENCY CALLS: TOTAL CALLS YEAR TO DATE: 32 Total Calls – 32 Fire Calls – 9 EMS Calls - 25 Total Mutual Aid – 2 Ithaca - 1 Airport - 1 Calls in the Village – 19 Calls in the Town – 11 TRAINING / MEETINGS / EVENTS: 1/29 - EMS and Fire walk through of Kendal 2/9 - Company meeting 2/11 - Building searches around the district or Road Rally UPCOMING EVENTS: 2/15 – Fire Safety Lecture with CU Sorority 2/18 - EMS Training 2/22 – Fire Safety Lecture with CU Sorority 2/26 - School walk through preparing for the hidden dangers and hard to find hiding spots 2/28 – Recruit Class 1 2/29 – Fire Safety Lecture with CU Sorority 3/7 – Recruit Class 2 3/27 – ESIP EVOC Training APPARATUS: All trucks are working well. STATION: Working on estimates to replace the rear station door that was damaged by wind.