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preplanning component which require our firefighters Prevention to map out all commercial and multi-family occupan- National Statistics report that 80% of all fire deaths cies. These pre-plans are used during emergency occur in residential occupancies. Of these fire deaths, responses to key our firefighters in on life safety haz- a high percentage are under the age of 10. to address ards and built in fire systems at the occupancy in ques- this challenge, Deputy Chief Sheldon Hamblin, Fire- tion. We have 288 occupancies pre-planned to date. fighters Thomas Bauer and Nicole Stanley developed a fire safety program for our community modeled after The Future 4 the National Fire Protection Association's "Learn Not 1997 will be important year for this department. At the to Burn" Curriculum. This program was awarded May Annual Town Meeting I will be requesting the $3,500 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts voters to fund the renovation and addition to our Cen- Division of Fire Services "Student Awareness Fire tral Station. This project, estimated at 1.5 million dol- Education" (SAFE) program. The grant funding lars, will provide our community with a facility that enabled us to send a firefighter to each of the Town's will serve Mashpee for the next 50 years. Included in elementary schools once a month to present specific this project is the design and engineering for a sub sta- safety learning objectives for grades K through 3. tion to be located in South Mashpee. It is my plan to Assisting in this program are SAFE Instructors Lt. request construction funding for the sub-station in the i Richard Martini, Firefighters Daniel Bohnenberger, year 2001. Stephen Cashman, Michael Evaul and Roger Henson. I look forward to the success of this program. Again, thank you for your continued support. In the area of Code Enforcement, Deputy Chief Ham- Respectfully submitted, blin performed 250 hours of field inspections aug- George W. Baker mented by 562 hour of inspections performed by the Fire Chief on-duty firefighters.Our inspection program include a 3 �fl I Firefighters Award Ceremony,August 1996 courtesy Mashpee Enterprise L to R Chief George W. Baker, Lieutenant Geoffrey Willis, Firefighter EMT Charles Stone, Firefighter Paramedic Stephen Bold, Firefighter Paramedic Stephen Cashman, Lieutenant Ste hen Costello, Firefighter Paramedic Nicole P P Stanley, Firefighter Paramedic John Phelan, Firefighter Paramedic Joseph Fellows, Firefighter EMT Howland Evora, Firefighter EMT Joseph Peltier, Deputy Chief Sheldon Hamblin. 87