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i i Report of the Fire Chief WiryV' 'Wk HIL ShI L i� d� �-ice To the Honorable Board of Selectmen �m and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: It is my honor to communicate to you the 2001 report of the Mashpee Fire &Rescue Department. a, " . Our Mission "The Mission of the Mashpee Fire & Rescue special operations and incident command training. This Department is to minimize loss and sufferingtraining is accomplished through on-duty in-service within drills, County, State and National Fire Fighting our community. We accomplish this by education, Academies, the Community College System and spe- training and the mitigation of emergency incidents within the limit of available resources". cial training courses. This program of ongoing training { keeps the members of our department up to date with ` Personnel current practices and ready to react to the daily chal- As Fire Chief,I recognize that the greatest asset of lenges of providing fire and emergency medial services. Y' this department is its thirty one full time and three part time employees. Time and time again our personnel As noted above,each member of this department demonstrate to me that our fire department has the best received training specific to our new aerial. This Firefighters, EMTs and Paramedics on Cape Cod, and training included 16 hours of factory direct operations training, 16 hours of Massachusetts Firefighting possibly, in all of Massachusetts. To each and every Academy Aerial tactics training, 4 hours of driver member, thank you for your continued professionalism obstacle course operations and 12 hours of over the and commitment to the people of our community. road vehicle operations. During the over the road Significant changes in our personnel occurred operations portion of our training, we were able to this past year in the ranks of our Call Firefighters. Call identify travel routes for responses to high risk build- Firefighters Craig O'Mally and Tom Corbert left our ings in our community.! department to join the full-time ranks of neighboring Station Renovation departments,Falmouth and Sandwich. Call Firefighter During April of 2000 ground was broken to Helen Condry left our department when she and her begin the process for a major addition and renovation family relocated to Florida. to our station. In May of this past year the phase one Operations portion of the renovation was completed and we During 2001, your Fire & Rescue Department moved in to the new administration and crew quarters. responded to 2,352 emergencies. This reflects an In November, phase two, the apparatus bays were increase of less than I% in responses from last year., completed. At the time of this report the Building Committee is working to close out this project. I am At the May 2000 Annual Town Meeting, voters very thankful to the building committee, Chair Joyce approved$650,000 for the purchase of an aerial ladder Mason, Deputy Fire Chief Sheldon Hamblin, truck. Pierce Manufacturing Inc., located in Appleton, Firefighter Charles Stone, Elizabeth Petty, George Wisconsin constructed this vehicle and it was deliv- Wezniak and Peter Thomas for their tireless effort in , ered in July. Thanks to Deputy Chief Hamblin, seeing this job to completion. Lieutenants Martini, Long and Costello and Firefighter Thayer for their contribution to this pro- ject. This vehicle will be an essential piece of fire- i fighting equipment to respond to our ever-increasing commercial occupancies. Each firefighter received j over 30 hours of training directly related to the safe and efficient use of this vehicle. This training proved f to us the benefit this vehicle will have in both fire- — == fighting and in technical rescue situations. Again, -- thank you for your support on this initiative. �4 Training Each year, members of this department undergo G hundreds of hours of emergency medical, firefighting, f , 79 Y�