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Fire Chief's Annual Report 2006
The Department received a grant from the Cole Family Foundation for a new Thermal Imaging Camera. The price on the camera was about $17,000. The town's share $2,500. With the Fire Fighters Association Funds being $4,950. (Monies raised from auction and other fund raisers) We are very thankful to the Cole Family for their contribution, for it saved thousands of dollars in property damages in the past 10 months the department has had it. This is the second camera the department has owned, the first was bought in 1998 after a lengthy fund raising effort. That camera was in need of repair, but was non-repairable.
In January the town received a visit from the Department of Labor and the Fire Department was given a few citations pertaining to mostly lack of training updates. With a lot of effort in more training by the department members and some help from the highway department to do some work on the hose tower ladder, all was corrected by the May 1st deadline and no fines being leavied.
Photo submitted by Will Lovejoy |
Our calls for the year were as follows:
Provide Assistance
.48
Extinguishment and Control
..21
Structure
.8
Vehicle
...13
Miscellaneous
7
Search and Rescue
..7
Fill-in/Stand-by for mutual aid
31
Restore Systems/Alarm or Sprinklers
6
Investigate/Enforcement
7
Respectfully Submitted,
Melvin Wyman
Fire Chief
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