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January 26, 2017
Honorable Linda Woodard
Board of Trustees
Village of Cayuga Heights
Monthly Report October 2016
We had 41 alarms in the month of November. There were 26 calls in the Village of Cayuga Heights,
12 calls in the Town of Ithaca and 3 mutual aid requests. We had 22 EMS responses and 19 fire calls.
The month was fairly routine with a mix of fire and EMS calls.
November was a great month for training. All of our EMTs completed their annual continuing
education hours and were signed off on their skills. All EMS providers are required to do continuing
medical education hours and then are checked off on certain skills by evaluators. We did a joint
training in November with several area departments in Cortland. On months when there is a fifth
Tuesday we schedule these joint FAST trainings to share ideas and work on skills. Lt. Berger works
closely with the Cortlandville Fire Department Chief to set up these trainings. Several of our more
senior members are busy with the pump operators’ course and Fire Officer. All members who wish
to become lieutenants and chiefs in this department are required to take Fire Officer before running
for an officer’s position. Fire Officer is held at the fire academy over the course of two weekends and
runs from Friday to Monday which means that those who attended the class took several days off
work. It is always gratifying to realize the level of dedication of our members. A couple of the fall
recruits Nick Supron and Tiffany Ho have already completed their probationary checklists. To work
through the entire checklist in this amount of time takes many hours at the station. All of the other
recruits are done with their first sign offs and many of them have most of their seconds. This is a
good crew and they are all waiting for the County’s spring training schedule to be posted so they can
sign up for the State fire classes. Several of the new members have already signed up for the EMT
class to be held at TC3 this spring.
We have scheduled the HVAC work on the heating system for the end of December with HSC
Associates. This is a time when most of our bunkers are out of town for the holiday and it will be the
least disruptive time at the station. We are having problems with the failing relays and the older
thermostats staying on and at times the heat in some areas of the station is over 100 degrees. It will
be good to wrap this project up.
Firefighter Ray Balley will be taking the bunker room recently vacated by Jaden Gladstone. Ray
joined the department last spring and has already taken the Firefighter 1 class and is an EMT. Ray is
a sophomore at Cornell studying Latin and has said that he has no desire to leave Ithaca any time
soon. He will be a great addition to the bunking crew.
Sincerely,
George Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Fire Superintendent