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ANNUAL REPORT
2006
C.AYUGA f] E,[ GIXT S F { RE D E FARTA,{ EIVT
194 Fneasant Grove Road
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(607) 2s7 -2377
Apil 1,2007
Mayor Walter Lynn and the
Board of Trustees for the Village of Cayuga Heights
The following is the Annual Report of the CayugaHeights Fire Department for 2006.
In 2006 the Cayuga Heights Fire Department had a record year. We ran 583 calls for the
year. There werc 273 runs in the Village of Cayuga Heights, 182 runs in the Town of
Ithaca and we responded to 128 requests for mutual aid. There were 4 structure fire calls,
11' motor vehicle crashes, 269 EMS calls and 299 other type incidents. "Other type
incidents" fall into the category of ca1ls such as fire ala.rm activations, power lines down,
flooded basements, brush {ires, spills, cooking fires etc... These types of calls are the
majority of non EMS related incidents that the department responds to. Some of these
calls take the most amount of time on scene. Flooded basements and wires d.own calls
require an enonnous time commitment. We had a huge increase in the number of mutual
aid responses this past year. The major contributing factor to this came from the closure
of the Thurston Avenue Bridge and the request from the Ithaca Fire Department that we
respond to calls north of Fall Creek. They realizedthat their response tirnm were going
to be affected by their need to take a circuitous route to get to ci1ls in the city of Ithaca
north of the creek. This led them to request that the CayugaHeights Fire Deplrtment be
dispatched on the first alarm to calls in iheir diskict. we oia this ihrough the summer andfall until the bridge was reopened northbound in early winter an6 they could again
respond in a timely mallner. We will pick up the automatic mutual aid again in the ,priogwhen the bridge is once agun closed for construction. We also reslponded to manyrequests from our other neighbors for assistance during incidents. bur FAST team
responds automatically to skucture fires in the Town of Dryden. This team is used to
rescue firefighters should they become incapacitated during operations. We sent several
teams of firefighters to Broome County last June to provide assistance during theflooding. Crews were assigned for three days to this deiail. Emergency medical calls
make up close to 50% of our responses. Many of our members are EMTs and several arecurrently taking or are planaing to take advanced level classes to continue our tradition of
Advanced Life Support capability.
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In running the statistics for 2006 we continue to have excellent responses times. ouraverage response time for 2006 was 3.0 minutes from time of uturrn to apparatusresponse' We responded to eveq/ single alarm that we were dispatched to for the year.We had an average an average of 1 0.6 firefighters per call. The Lverage lelgth of a callfor the department is_48 minutes per call with a toial of 2,937 man hoirs splnt on calls,This number only reflects the amount of time that the members were in the fire trucks, itdoes not reflect the amount of time spent cleaning equipment after each run and makingsure that it is ready for the next response.
The volunteers of the cayugaHeights !19 Denartment put together 52 in house trainingsin 2006' our firefighters put in 2283 man hours^of training at the fire station.Additionally we attended state andl national trainings totaling 1954 manhours of trainingoutside the station- This is a total of 4337 man hours of training for 2006. This numberdoes not include the countless hours of EMS training done at other sites for our EMSproviders to maintain certification. Our EMT', -*t complete continuing educationhours every six months- as well a$ prove skills proficiency to evaluators. Many of ourtrainings take place at the county training centeiand involve live fire evolutions. All ofour officers have taken the require<l classes that allow us to train with live fire.
Our membership remains strong. Due to an excellent recruiting program spearhead,ed byAsst. Chief Marshall Stocker we have enough members to respond io .rn.rg"rrcies. Therecruitment program last fall allowed us to choose 15 new members from a list of morethen 30. We started the Fall 2006 Recruit Class with these handpicked new members.History had taught us that if we started a class with 15 then we would not keep all ofthem through the training process. This class proved us wrong. Al1 15 of the recruits
completed the training program. Of the 15 new members 14 took the New york StateFirefighter One class (one of th,: recruits had the class already from his previous
department). This course is taught by State Fire Instructors and is 78 hours long. Welook forward to all of these memb,3rs graduating from these classes. With this class we
also set a deadline for completion of probation checklist of the second week in February,
We have never set a deadline date lfor checklist completion in the past and this has led, at
times, of some members taking a very long time to complete checkiists. This class again
exceeded expectations and all new recruits were off probation in the required amount oftime. ln looking forward to gains in membership and losses in member.trip fot 2007 we
have decided not to run a Spring 2t,007 recruit class. We are building a waiting list forFaI|200l and look forward to continued success with this program. In the Spring of
2006 we had several people with silgnificant prior experience apply for membership. Fire
Council at that time decided to go out of the normal recruiting pio""r. and we accepted
these five members. This worked out very well for us. All five members have
contributed immensely to our operations and one of these members is running for an
officer's position in the April elections.
In 2006 we received a gift to tlLe fire department from a former member George
Hanselman. Mr. Hanselman was a long time member of the department and had held
many positions in the company and the department. Mr. and Mrs. Hanselman ieft moneyin a trust for the CaTuga Heights Fire Department. Working with the village the fire
department used these fLnds to purchase our new rescue truck, It was determined that wehad outgrown our old rescue truck. With all of the equipment that we are required tocany to keep our ALS Certification the Jeep was not meeting our needs. We purchased a2007 Chevrolet Suburban from Bill Cooke Chewolet utrd th.n sent it to AdmiralSpecialty Vehicles in Danby for outfitting. We pla,:ed this vehicle in service in May2006 and have been very pleased with it. The reliable Jeep is sti1l in service with thedepartment as a utility vehicle, It is used as a baclkup EMS vehicle and a command
vehicle.
All of our other trucks are running well. As with any fleet of vehicles we have
maintenance issues but Lt. Joe Lisi and Jeff Frisbee have worked. together to come upwith an excellent preventive maintenance program and we are experiencing less majoiprobiems then we did several years ago. 8203 had a fan and motor break apart last
summer but the major cost of this was picked up by the warranty, The problem happened
one week prior to the warranty running out. We were fortunate in this instance.
The bunking progam is still strong. A11 of the rooms are full and the bunkers continue to
staff the first due apparatus in the middle of the night. This is a very successful program
and has 1ed to many discussions with fire chiefs in our area and in other municipafties.
With declining volunteer numbers around the country departments are looking for ways
to cover cal1s in their districts. The number of bunl:er programs across the country isincreasing' These programs are an asset to the communities they serve and ours is an
excellent example of a successful program.
We are sti1l working with the Village Engineers Office to work toward. a resolution to the
water supply problem in the lower village. TG Millers is developing plans with the
village and Bolton Point to replace some of the existing system as well as ad.ding some
lines to boost the flow in certain areas of the village. 'W'e are pleased, with the intent of
the project and will continue to work toward improving the water flow to the entiredistrict' We were not able to inspect the hydrants in the Town of Ithaca last fall. We do
hope to get this off the ground in the spring. Once we get all the hydrants tested we will
work toward getting them painted and clearing brush away from the hydrants and making
sure they are all clearly marked.
Fire Prevention is still a major focus of the department. We continue to go to the schools,
much like the DARE program, to push fire preverLtion. This is a very successfulprogram. Fire Prevention programs have been directXy linked to the decrease in house
fires and deaths from fire. When we go into the schools and the older children point andcall you by name means that we are impacting them in a positive way. Our community isvery important to our department. We are constantly hosting community events at the
department and community orgarnzations use the station for their meetings. This allows
the public to see what how the department functions to benefit our commu]ritv,
{e at the fire department are dedicated to our mission of providing a very high level offire and EMS protection to our community. The officers and firefighters of the CayugaHeights Fire Department are proud. of our accomplishments over the past year and lookforward to improving our services in the coming year. We again *ould IikL to thank thevillage board for the support that you have giverius this past year. Without the support ofthe village of Cayuga Heights and the Town of Ithaca our mission would be impossible.
Thank You.
Sincerely, // r-*M/l lt t/L V r//
Geo{ge Tamborelle
Fire Chief/Superintendent
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Fire Department:55002
Companies: AII
Date Range: From 01/01/2006 to 1213112006
BoxlZone/ Code: All
District: All
Situation Found: AII
Exclude Mutual Aids:No
Exclude Exposures: No
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