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t 1, <br /> At the present time the crews at Stations 4 and 5 are required to work, • <br /> eat and sleep on the apparatus floor, a very unsafe and poor practice. <br /> Having crew quarters encourages crew members to spend more time at the <br /> station which again improves our response time. This type of personal <br /> treatment encourages more dedication and longevity from our current <br /> firefighters and helps in recruiting new firefighters which is a <br /> continuous problem. <br /> The inclusion of an exercise or fitness room at these two stations is a <br /> continuation of our enhanced physical fitness program to maintain <br /> physically fit , adept firefighters and thereby help reduce workers <br /> compensation claims. Again, we propose opening all fitness rooms to the <br /> local police in our fire protection district of Blaine, Mounds View and <br /> Spring Lake Park. <br /> Training Tower/Burn Building $ 50,000 <br /> This is a joint venture between Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Center, Fridley <br /> and us. With each department contributing $50,000, we will have a <br /> $200,000 facility available to all of us. This will be the third item we <br /> have purchased jointly with other departments. Our current air handling <br /> system is jointly owned by Columbia Heights, Fridley and us, and our <br /> HazMat vehicle is jointly owned by Coon Rapids, Fridley, Columbia Heights, <br /> St. Anthony and our department. Joint ownership of this type of facility <br /> makes sense since there is not a continuous or daily need for it by any of <br /> our departments. <br /> At the present time we have no facility to use for ladder training on a <br /> regular basis. We have to ask building owners to let us use their <br /> respective buildings, and some of them are understandable reluctant to do <br /> so. We have no place to conduct flammable liquid spill fire and <br /> containment procedures, nor any facility to use on a steady basis for <br /> forcible entry practices. <br /> • - p us o er op ons o <br /> further enhance our training program. The proposed location of this <br /> facility is in the northern area of Fridley which means we will not <br /> receive any complaints from the local residents because of smoke generated <br /> during our training sessions. <br /> S <br /> -3- <br />