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report that we have added 15 years to the life of this Report of the vehicle. Fire Chief In November of 1997 the department received 2 Life Pak 11 monitor defibrillators. These new pieces To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and of equipment enable our paramedics to do diagnostic the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: quality 12 lead electrocardiograms in the ambulance. This procedure allows the paramedic to communicate I am pleased to communicate to you the 1997 report objective information regarding a patient's heart attack of"your" Fire & Rescue Department. to the medical control physicians. This information then allows the emergency room physician to quickly Personnel diagnose heart muscle death and make an informed decision on the course of treatment for the patient. As Fire Chief, I recognize that this department's prevention asset is its employees. I extend my thanks to the men and women who make up our department. Without This year our school fire prevention program was their effort and expertise my job would be extremely awarded $4,516.50 from the Commonwealth of difficult. Massachusetts Division of Fire Services "Student The department had one change in personnel during Awareness Fire Education" (SAFE) Program. The grant funding enabled us to send a firefighter to each 1997. In August, Firefighter Roger Henson left our of the Town's elementary schools once a month to pre- department to work for the Centerville-Osterville- sent specific safety learning objectives for grades K Marstons Mills Fire Department. I wish Roger and his through 3. Assisting in this program are SAFE family well. Instructors Lt. Richard Martini, Firefighters Daniel !; Bohnenberger, Stephen Cashman and Michael Evaul. To fill the vacant position, I promoted James Healy I look forward to the success of this program. of Mashpee from the position of Call Firefighter to full time Firefighter/EMT. A long term resident of In the area of Code Enforcement, Deputy Chief Mashpee, I am proud to have Jim as a full time mem- Hamblin performed 310 hours of field inspections ber of this department. augmented by 562 hour of inspections performed by Operations the on-duty firefighters. Our inspection program include a preplanning component which require our During 1997, the number of department responses firefighters to map out all commercial and multi-fam- ily occupancies. These pre-plans are used during decreased approximately 5% emergency responses to key our firefighters in on life safety hazards and built in fire systems at the occu- pancy in question.. We have 292 occupancies pre- Response 1986-1987 planed to date. The Future 2000 •u>:<w;::: ,,. •;..:<ox„y;.C`; :;..ti2:•:.`t;;x.},<:. . x:�:<v 1998 will be important year for this department. At 1500 the May Annual Town Meeting, I will be requestingI 1000 �� < . �� .z, ; •� �, �, � the voters to fund the renovation and addition to our Central Station. ThisJ ro ect, estimated at 2.1 million 500 P dollars will provide our community with a facility that 0 ”`` `'' °" will serve Mashpee for the next 50 years. Included in (0 n co 0) O r N M It U) W 1� ro w ao m rn rn rn rn rn rn o� rn this project is the design and engineering for a sub sta- rn rn rn rn rn rn rn rn rn rn rn rn tion to be located in South Mashpee. It is my plan to r r r r r r r r r r r r request construction funding for the sub-station in the year year 2001. Thank you for your continued support. In January we sent out the department's 1989 Respectfully submitted, Pumper for repairs and refurbishment. The vehicle was returned in June in A-I condition. I'm happy to George W. Baker Fire Chief 101