Training meeting Monday October 24, 2022
Meeting called to order 1802
- 11 members present
- October 10 meeting minutes read and approved
- Chimney Fire Season
- Drive accordingly for the season
- Grab the Thermal, if you don’t know how to use it, shadow someone that does
- Temperatures that are of concern is over 400
- Stay on scene until temperatures return to normal
- While in PPE’s, limit time in the house, we should leave without a trace
- Fire Prevention week
- Mission accomplished, in 3 days met with roughly 300 kids
- Thank you to all who helped
- Andy does a great job and is well prepared
- Kids watched video prior to meeting to learn in person
- Kids’ homework is to remind parents to change batteries in smoke detectors, assign a meeting place if there is a fire at their house, and to have parent’s clean their chimneys
- Christmas lights are ordered and should arrive soon
- Candy will be in Wednesday for Trunk or Treat
- If you can help, meet at the station at 1500
- All new equipment and old equipment will be on trucks, if there is room
- Training included scavenger hunt for tools
- Future training will be a scavenger hunt with driver training
- New skids, should be kept in right hand pants pocket
- Radio/Pager Update
- Davis will be in tomorrow to program truck mobiles
- Mark said older portables are good to go and looking into new software
- Training Nights are important, don’t be discouraged, there will be a big fire someday
- Buff update – Decided to bring it in after Christmas
Meeting adjourned 1930
Minutes taken by Sadie Galloway
Approved by Fire Chief Brian Perry
