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2792 ~ ~x3 <br />Mr. Jorrison training. Have you got the time to go down and take the training? <br />continued: Have you got the time to sit and wait down here and wiat for a <br /> fire? No you haven't, I know I haven't, I wouldn't enjoy it. <br /> I did volunteer for the Fire Department, but I am not a member <br /> yet. I don't feel that we should get rid of our regular men, I <br /> think they do a fine job. Now could you go take and hook up a <br /> pump and put out afire in my house? Anybody sitting back here <br /> including you Councilmen, could you? <br />Chief Helbig I might add that every volunteer on my force can. <br />Jerry Baden I've been on the Volunteer Fire Department for 18 years, and I <br /> think 2 made about 75 percent of all the day calls that were <br /> in the Village and I would not say that I could get from that <br /> filling station on Arona and Larpentuer to the Fire Station <br /> and after stopping my car and opening the doors and etc., I <br /> don't think I could get the rig out of the Fire Hall in less than <br /> 10 minutes.It's humanly impossible. Roseville has a fine Fire <br /> Department but they had Carrier Brothers right across the street <br /> and they use to run right across the street and take the rig out. <br /> Now they get a call and all the sleeper does is start the rig and <br /> get it out on the drive-way apron. They must wait for someone to <br /> come and take the truck from that point and that's a waiting <br /> period of anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. I have turned in an alarm <br /> and gone to the station and waited and it has taken 15 minutes. <br /> In Falcon Heights the driver should either wait for a man to go <br /> with him or know that someone will be at the scene, because <br />there is only four men in this village in the daytime. <br />Mrs. Ronald Brown If it is not possible or feasible to make afire contact with <br />1887 Simpson St. Paul, has Minneapolis been contacted. <br />Councilman St. Paul has copied the Minneapolis contract which Lauderdale now <br />Mr. Ecklund uses in it's contract with Minneapolis according to St. Paul <br /> Fire Chief, Steve Conroy. <br /> Some of the conditions of the contract were read such as: <br /> 1. The City of St. Paul reserves the right to retain <br /> within the city arty personnel or equipment the Chief <br /> deems necessary for the proper and adequate protection <br /> of the City. <br /> 2. They will dispatch only such equipment and personnel as <br /> in his opinion, at the time being, can safely be spared <br /> from the City. <br /> .3. In the case of afire in Falcon Heights he may recall <br /> any or all equipment and personnel for an emergency <br /> which may arise in the City at the time such equipment <br /> or personnel is in our Village. <br /> ]~. In case weather or road conditions are such that in the <br /> opinion of the Fire Chief equipment and personnel <br /> cannot be fu,zmished to applicant with reasonable <br /> safety, he may at his discretion, refuse to answer the <br /> call of the applicant. <br /> Need I read further? (The general consensus of the audience <br /> was no!) It seems St. Paul just doesn't want outside fire <br /> contracts although as most of you know the Fairgrounds and <br /> Farm Campus are serviced by St. Paul under separate contracts. <br /> This, of course, is due primarily to high exposure and large <br /> buildings, <br />