OPEN SHIFTS: August Fri 8/16 0700-1900, 1900-0700. Sat 8/17 0700-1900. Fri 8/23 0700-1900.
Please send your availability to AChf Duross.
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DUTY OFFICER: Tonight: Lt Mouzas. Saturday Day: Lt Mouzas. Saturday Night: Lt Pendleton.
Sunday: Capt Daniels. Duty Chief Saturday: DChf Harris. Sunday: AChf Duross.
Duty Chief next week; AChf Duross.
FFOC tonight: FF Ferrante. Satuday: None. Sunday: FF Ferrante.
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NEW FULL-TIME HIRES: I'm happy to announce that our vacant full-time positions have been filled. FF/EMTA Nikki Demarco and FF/Paramedic Adam Mason have been hired. Start dates are yet to be determined.
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STUDENTS MOVE IN: Our next group of students move in this weekend. Luke Loudon and Jon Bicking. Orientation for a week, then off to the fire academy.
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NEW PARAMEDIC: Congratulations FF Christine Hilton! As of today Christine is a licensed paramedic in Maine.
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SMCC FIRE ACADEMY NEEDS: I've posted on the bulletin board a schedule of dates apparatus is needed for the summer fire academy, EVOC & BPOC classes and the fall fire academy. Please let me know if you're able to help out on any of those dates. We need to provide apparatus and operators for those classes.
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LADDER 82: It's back in service.
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NEW WIFI AT THE STATION: Our WIFI hardware has been updated. The new password is on the white board in the classroom.
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FITNESS ROOM: The Chaplain has sent out a questionnaire on needs and desires for the fitness room. The questionnaire is in your email. Please complete it. Also, regarding the fitness room, I'm quite disappointed at the mess that has been left in there. I shouldn't have to remind anyone to clean up after yourselves. Put the equipment back where it belongs when you're done with it. Take your trash out.
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The EMR-ISAC InfoGram for July 25, 2019 contains the following articles:
1. FBI quick reference guide on active shooter pre-attack behaviors
2. New NTAS bulletin focuses on homegrown threats
3. Millennials might just be what the fire service needs
4. IPSA 2019 Natural and Man-made Disaster Recovery Symposium
5. Cyber Threats
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Near Miss - Continual Size-up and Good Communication During Fire Attack.
Summary: Even our best plans fail. On this call, heads-up situational awareness and deliberate communications of deteriorating conditions kept firefighters from having an otherwise lousy day at this fire.
Event Description: The first unit arrived at a two-story single-family dwelling with smoke showing from side Bravo. The crew completed a 360 size-up and reported smoke showing from "every opening" and no exterior basement access. The second engine arrived and stretched a line to the Alpha side first-floor entrance preparing for an attack on what was assumed to be a second-floor fire. The command unit arrived on the scene shortly after, directly behind Truck 1 and Truck 2, and assumed command and gave an additional size-up. Moments later the first engine relayed a priority message about a hole in the floor directly inside the front door and that all units should back out. Command asked for a long alert tone and backed firefighters out of the front door, ensuring no other units made entry via that entrance. Command also checked the accountability of the units in the immediate hazard area. What was believed to be a working attic fire was found to be a basement fire.
View the report: Continual Size-Up and Good Communication During Fire Attack
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Family Day: August 24th. Sign up is in the bulletin board.
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PTSD into PTG: It will change your life. Battalion Chief David Griffin, Charleston (SC) FD.
9/20 0800 to 1630, Dover, NH. This is a great seminar. I heard BC Griffin speak a few years ago and he's worth hearing. He was a Charleston Firefighter during the Super-Sofa fire. He talks about how that fire effected him personally and how it effected the CFD as a whole. I've posed the flyer on the bulletin board.
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NFPA #1 Fire Code Class: August 27, 2019 8:30 AM-4:30 AM in Augusta.
This full-day course provides overview training to fire fighters and emergency response personnel. This multi-part document has 16 sections to safeguard life and protect property from dangerous conditions caused by fire and explosion. Other fire codes including NFPA 101, 57, 58, 30, 13, 25, and 72 are referred to in this code. Class runs 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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MX207: Open Saturday 12-6 and Sunday 10-4.
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Events Next Week: Sunday student move-in. Thursday: 1830 Officers meeting.
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Have a great weekend,
Chief
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