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Home My WebLink Aboutrepjuly16.pdf September 9, 2016 Honorable Linda Woodard Board of Trustees Village of Cayuga Heights Monthly Report July 2016 The fire department ran 42 calls in July. There were 20 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 17 calls in the Town of Ithaca and 7 mutual aid requests. We had 25 EMS responses and 17 fire calls. We had another routine month in July with a mix of fire and EMS calls. We took delivery of our new Zoll cardiac monitor and the new E203 in July and had training on both. Our EMS personnel sat through a training that took several hours to learn how to use the new cardiac monitor and AEDs from Zoll. The cardiac monitor is the same model that Bangs Ambulance uses and we have it programmed the same as Bangs uses to make the transition from one monitor to another seamless. We now have AEDs on all of our apparatus including the support vehicles. We did take delivery of the new KME fire truck and the officers went through a familiarization course with a full training to follow for all members of the department in early September. We have set the dates for the fall recruit class and we are planning to take between 15 and 20 recruits if we get that many applications. We will finish with the checklist work on those from the spring class when they return from summer break in a couple of weeks. There is a Firefighter 1 class being offered in Tompkins County this fall and we have several people signed up to take it at this time. Cortland County offered a boot camp style training program in July that four of our members attended. The class is run during the day for three weeks. When the class is done the graduates have Firefighter 1, Firefighter Survival, HAZMAT and Truck Company Operations. This is an amazing program run by top notch state instructors at the Cortland County training center. We were very pleased that the four members who attended found time and were able to completed it. We did get the parking lot sealed and striped in July and it looks better and now has wider parking spaces. The village DPW is going to seal the concrete on the front pad in August and then that project will be wrapped up. We are very pleased with our member participation through the summer. With the decreased staffing from students being away for break and our in-town members taking vacations we are still getting the trucks on the road quickly. Our bunkers have been doing an outstanding job and I could not be happier with that program. We are gearing up for a busy fall with recruiting and then the Recruit Classes as well as the department open house all happening in September and October. Sincerely, George Tamborelle Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent