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Little Canada <br />Fire Department, Inc. <br />325 Little Canada Road East Office: (651) 766 -4057 <br />Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 Fax: (651) 766 -4092 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor Blesener and Members of the City Council <br />FROM: Jim Morelan, Fire Chief <br />DATE: October 26, 2005 <br />RE: Additional EVP Devices <br />The Little Canada Fire Department supports the position of the Ramsey County Sheriff's <br />Department that additional EVP devices are needed at a number of intersections in <br />Ramsey County. The addition of the EVP devices as proposed will improve traffic safety <br />as well as response time. <br />The Fire Department has had difficulty in responding from one call to another, especially <br />when the first call is on the freeway and there is the need to return to Little Canada Road. <br />I would support equipping all traffic signals with EVP devices, operable from all <br />directions. <br />There is at least one other traffic signal (outside of the City) that I would also like to see <br />equipped as soon as possible. That signal would serve emergency vehicles westbound on <br />I694 exiting at Rice Street. The absence of a device has caused delays in responding to <br />the Twin Lake Area as well as the Rice Street/Country Drive area. <br />There may be others within the City that also need to be identified. I would suggest an <br />inventory of all traffic lights be conducted. <br />3 <br />