2C, Lake Johanna Fire Department Discussion

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tr The costs are minimal considering that our firefighters are paid only their shift wage for their time on shift, regardless of how many calls occur they are paid a flat hourly wage. There will. certainly be some additional fuel costs to respond to these calls. _ ■ Why does the LJFD respond to medicals when the sheriff and ambulance are also responding? We believe having firefighters working shifts in the station gives you a far better - response to emergency calls. Our firefighters have a higher level of training (EMT-B) and carry more equipment then.the Sheriff's Deputies. We typically arrive on the scene before the Medics and many times before the Deputies. We are able to ride with the medics to the hospital when critical patients are transported, which leaves the Deputies in the city to patrol and cover. calls. We work.extremely well with the She:ritr s Department and we are improving service with our response to EMS calls. ■ The clear mission and number one priority of the department is fighting fires. Do a significant numbers of medical runs and the manpower needed for these runs compromise this mission? Our xn.ission of responding to fire calls is not being jeopardized in any way. With. staffed stations our response times are typically much faster, we will have an assured response of 6 firefighters initially, and stations will be paged out if additional.resources are needed. We have an Automatic Aid agreement with Roseville and Vadn.ais Heights for structure fires in our cities. As stated before, we will.respond with.one truck to a medical. call. when.available. That leaves another crew available for any additional calls. Our on scene time at most medical calls is typically less then 10 minutes Station One ■ The number one concern with the proposal to close Station 1 is fire response to the southwest corner of Arden Hills. We have a lot of data that clearly shows us that when our stations are staffed, we can respond.all corners of.Arden Hills in a timely manner. In 2008 as an example,we had a basement fire at 31.70 New Brighton Road, two blocks south of Station. 1. Our shift Engine was on scene in 5 minutes before the doors even opened at station 1. 'We also count on our Auto Aid response from:Rosevil.le for structure fires; they have proven over and over that they can respond into our cities very fast. May 1 st 201.0 we.had a house fi..re p Y on Fernwood Ct. near Lake Josephine at 2:30am. Roseville Engine 31 crew was the first on scene in 7 minutes .from their fire station on:Dale Street and l: WY 36. The first arriving engine :from Lake Johanna was on. scene in 12 minutes. Can it be "proven" that the response time and coverage for the SW corner of Arden Hills will not be compromised with the closing of Station 1 and the addition of the full time work crew program? (Can it be proven-that the response time will improve?) The last thing we want to do is compromise public safety. This has been scrutinized by the Department and we believe we can provide very good service-to all. corners of Arden Hills with staffed stations and closing station 1. o The Council has a concern about the impact of trains in responding to this area of the City from Stations 2, 3 and 4.