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Did You Know?

Carbon Monoxide Detectors are required by State Law in all occupancies that have a source of carbon monoxide. Sources include any solid fuel, liquid fuel or gas fuel heating or cooking appliances.
Carbon Monoxide Detectors have an expiration date, usually 5 to 7 years with information included in the manufacturer’s instructions. Once they reach their expiration date they will beep every 20 to 35 seconds and cannot be reset and must be replaced.

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Personal Preparedness

Residents need to be prepared to be self sufficient for at least 72 hours after any significant event. Have food and water on hand for your family and pets. If you have to go to a shelter be sure to bring your prescription medications or have a record of them in your Go Bag. Copy the contents of your wallet including the front and back of all credit cards and all other information you carry with you and place it in your Go Bag. Have phone numbers of friends and relatives so that you can call them in case you evacuate. Most think it will never happen to them, and then it does, be prepared!

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	Upcoming Events

Feb. 15	OSHA Refresher Training

Feb. 18	OSHA Refresher Training

Mar. 3	Training Center

Mar. 24	Association of Fire Districts Workshop CP Firehouse

Jun. 14-16	State Chief's Show -- Turning Stone

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Notice of Monthly Meeting

Fire District Meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30PM at the Campbell Road Station. Any changes must be posted in a legal ad and will be noted on this website. Public Welcome.

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February Training Focus

Practice what you have learned, make it second nature. The presentations on initial fire attack focus on some specific job duties. The following jobs are assigned on the first due engine utilizing the officer, the nozzle person, the control person and the pump operator. The pump operator drives the unit to the scene and then insures that the crew has a continuous supply of water to extinguish the fire. The officer assigns the positions to the crew in route to the call, makes the line selection, estimates the stretch, carries the Irons to the door, chocks the door open and communicates conditions or needs to command. The nozzle person pulls the line that the officer has selected, takes the line to the door and prepares to attack the fire by bleeding off the air after the line is charged. The nozzle person works with the officer to extinguish the fire by keeping nozzle at arm’s length, sweeping high then sweeping low and is usually the least experience crewmember who works under the guidance of the officer. The Control person is the last person in the stretch, will help hook up the supply line with the driver then works with the nozzle crew to keep the attack line moving forward and is normally the more experienced member of the crew because they can work on their own.

These are the jobs of the first crew in and this process needs to be practiced over and over until it is second nature, until it is automatic for every first in crew. The primary requirement is communication between the crew and the officer on the way to every call. The job of the officer is to make a plan for what and how operations will be executed and communicate it to the crew. Let’s get this committed to memory and next month we will discuss the jobs of the second in unit. You thought this job was easy, it takes special people to be volunteer fire fighters and we are looking for more special people, won’t you join us? Don’t want to fight fires? We need fire police, administrative help and scene support people to help out too. There is always more than enough work to do.

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Regularly Scheduled Events:

Training -- Wednesday Nights beginning at 6:30 P.M. and Saturdays beginning at 8:00 A.M. with breakfast beginning at 7:30AM

Company Meetings -- 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:30 P.M.

Board of Fire Commissioner's Meeting -- 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30 P.M.

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Mission Statement:

Recruiting, cultivating, and retaining the highest quality diverse membership that remains committed to our mission and values.
Consistently delivering the best possible services to mitigate emergencies within our financial means and training in the safest manner possible.
Focusing on the safety of our members and the community before, during and after emergencies.
Partnering with local community, city, county, state, and federal officials and organizations in support of our vision.
Developing future leaders in the fire protection and emergency management community worldwide.
Encouraging innovative, forward-thinking strategies to reach our vision.

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Application & MV Disclosure

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Attention District Residents: To make sure your county 911 information is correct, call Saratoga County Emergency Services at 884-4769 daily between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.

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News

News Items

Board of Fire Commissioner's for 2012

Anthony Ponzillo, Chairman; Mike Handerhan, Apparatus Committee; Nick Maciariello, Facilities Committee; Tom Rinaldi, Apparatus Committee; Bill Doughty, Facilities Committee; Dave Waters, Treasurer; Barb Comitale, Secretary

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Line Officers for 2012

Chief -- Bob Wood

Deputy -- Jamie Herrick

Assistant -- Zach Zendran

Captains -- Rick Hopeck

-- Darren Lesson

-- Dave Dunn

Lieut. -- Tom Rinaldi Jr.

-- Brian Sabourin

-- Jeff Nyland

Fire Police Capt.-- Bob Okosky

Fire Police Lt -- Jim Woodruff

Administrative Officers for 2012

President -- John Conlen Jr.

Vice President -- Nick Maciariello

Treasurer -- Bob Carson

Recording Sec. -- Rachel Walts

Business Sec. -- Shelby Goudreu

Sergeant at Arms -- Bill Ritter

Trustees -- Dave Duquette, Chris Stewart, Jeff Nyland, Ed Sabourin, and Louis Kousalonis

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Words to Reflect On

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

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Personnel

Best of luck to the 2012 Officers who were sworn in at the recent Installation Banquet held at Panza’s Restaurant. A very good time was had by all with music and antics provided by our good friend Larry Grayson from DJ Express.

We are at 99% on the number of members completing this year’s medical screening.

We want to wish the best of luck to Lt TJ Rinaldi on his deployment with the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry HHC Sniper Company. A going away party was held as a proper send off and a group picture is up on the “Fire Company” section of this web page, Tj is flanked by his father and grandfather.

Congratulations to Shelby Goudreu and Mike Jones on their completion of the Fire Scene Operations Course.

Congratulations to Commissioner Mike Handerhan on being named the newest fire company Safety Officer.

Grants

There is no grant activity at this time.

Facility News

More information is pending on the installation of new flooring material for the Station 1 meeting room.

Apparatus News

The apparatus committee is anticipating a review of the final specifications for the replacement to the rescue truck at any time. The next steps are to review and finalize the specifications, work with the Board of Fire Commissioners to assemble a bid package, place the unit out to bid, review the bid submission and make a recommendation to the Board. We are hoping to have the unit out to bid no later than March of this year.

ETA -101 remains out of service since we borrowed a power steering pump to replace the pump on Rescue 10-3. Due to the age of the units no new pumps are available and the pump is being rebuilt for placement in 101.

Since the application of the Wearlon Corp epoxy on the bottom of the MR-108, the air boat, we have had a couple drills which have demonstrated the super slick surface, our speed across the ice and snow has definitely increased and the unit will not stick to the ice after being parked for any period of time. We will continue to evaluate the product and thank Wearlon of Fort Edward for working with us and supplying the material. Wearlon produces non-stick, Teflon-like, water based industrial coatings for a wide range of applications. See Wearlon Corp. -- web site

Training

Mandatory OSHA training in two parts, part one Wednesday the 15th from 6-10 and part two Saturday the 18th from 8 to noon.

We continue to train under the tutelage of FDNY fire fighter Scott Hickey, on January 18th the fire company participated in a refresher course on the basics of initial fire attack operations. The follow up will be to perform functional drills on the concepts taught in the class. Several departments in the area are receiving this valuable training.

The following are training resources:

http://www.fireengineering.com

www.dos.state.ny.us/fire/training.htm http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp www.nfaonline.dhs.gov/browse

The Emergency Response Guidebook Training Video “ERG2008”

www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/library/erg

Hazardous Material Resource:

https://erplan.net/eplan/login.htm

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