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The Finest Supporting the Bravest!

The purpose of the Fire Mechanics Section is to promote standardization of fire apparatus and equipment preventative maintenance, improve safety standards and practices, promote workshops, conferences, and seminars related to the purposes of this Section, and to promote cost savings through standardization of building and equipment purchasing and maintenance.

RECENT FIRE MECHANIC NEWS

Petersburg Rural Fire Distric (NE) Purchases New Fire Apparatus

Posted: Feb 8, 2017

Petersburg Rural Fire Distric (NE) Purchases New Fire Apparatus

Petersburg Rural Fire District #2 Board recently purchased a new 2017 Freightliner diesel automatic transmission pumper truck, which was delivered Wednesday, Feb. 1. Tank capacity is 1,250 gallons. PSI capacity is 150, with a 1,260 gallon-per-minute pump, 1,250 gallons at open discharge. Cost was $244,800, and it replaces the 1999 pumper truck.

The new truck will be used for structure fires. It is equipped with a foam injector used to control solvent fires, and has a hydraulic ladder rack. According to Fire Chief Baumgartner, the department plans to equip the truck with approximately $25,000 worth of needed equipment using funds from donations and the annual dance.

Osage Beach (MO) Fire Protection District Chief on Fire Apparatus Response Time

Time is always of the essence in an emergency, the sooner emergency crews can arrive on the scene they better the chances for a positive outcome. It would seem that sending the closest fire truck or emergency responder would simply make sense, but it has yet to happen, not only here but in most parts of the country.

Several years ago the Osage Beach Fire District began tracking their vehicles with an AVL system. The Vehicle Locator system allows our dispatch agency to see the location of our two staffed engines at all times. Along with this system the District has worked with the App Developer to integrate their software with our 911 software. This integration allows the responding units to receive a text message on their truck mounted mobile devices that gives them turn by turn directions to the call.

Dothan (AL) Buying $625,000 New Fire Apparatus

The Dothan City Commission approved more than $1 million in purchases this week, including a new pumper truck for the Dothan Fire Department and playground equipment for the new James Oates Park. The commission is required to approve any purchase of more than $15,000.

The city will pay $624,094 for a new pumper truck for the fire department. Fire Chief Larry Williams said the department is replacing a pumper truck that has been in service since 1994. Williams said the department has a total of eight frontline pumper trucks, while four are kept in reserve. The purchase of the new pumper truck will push the oldest frontline pumper truck to a reserve slot, while the oldest reserve truck will be sold.

Polk County (FL) Fire Rescue Adds Additional Paramedic ALS Engine Companies and Additional Ambulances

BARTOW, FL—In the never-ending quest to provide world class emergency medical services (EMS) to the residents, visitors, and businesses of Polk County, fire suppression engine company fire apparatus at the Saddle Creek and Jan Phyl Village stations have been converted to advanced life support (ALS) paramedic engine companies.

“Every second counts,” said Raf Vittone, deputy chief of medical services. “It’s important for patients to start receiving advanced medical care as soon as possible.”

Effective Jan. 30, when an engine crew is sent to a call in its assigned geographical area, there will be a paramedic assigned on the fire apparatus. By placing a paramedic and the necessary advanced life support equipment on a fire engine, residents, visitors and businesses can expect the quick arrival of a paramedic and the lifesaving equipment to their medical emergency.

There are many times when fire rescue ambulance crews are detained on a call, or have to respond from a distance. It is imperative that a paramedic begins lifesaving treatment modalities in a timely manner to support a good patient outcome prior to the ambulance arrival.

“An objective is to make fire suppression units advanced life support capable to assist in our EMS mission due to the sheer size of our great county,” said Chief Tony Stravino.

Currently, nearly half of the engines in Polk County Fire Rescue’s fleet are now ALS.

The engine at Saddle Creek is Polk County’s busiest engine. It responded to more than 4,000 calls in 2016. The engine at Jan Phyl Village is also a busy one. In 2016, it responded to more than 3,000 calls.

Additional Ambulances Added
In early January, Polk County Fire Rescue added two additional ambulances to serve the county as part of the Polk County Board of County Commissioners commitment to continue to provide outstanding service.

One new ambulance is assigned to the South Lakeland area and the other one is assigned to the Auburndale area. In 2016, ambulances in the two regions responded to more than 6,500 calls. Therefore, additional resources were added to assure proper coverage and reduce response times.

“We will continue to look for ways to improve and enhance our services to our residents, businesses and visitors,” Chief Stravino added. “We expect to be adding additional ambulances and advanced life support suppression units throughout the county. Polk County is geographically a very large county and we have significant population and area to cover.”

Polk County Fire Rescue covers more than 2,000 square miles and responds the more than 88,000 calls per year.