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Mounds View City Council March 8, 2004 Regular Meeting Page 18 1 Chief Zikmund reviewed the station location map. 2 3 Chief Zikmund indicated he is proposing to combine Stations 3 and 5 because they are 4 landlocked at both stations and he feels it has always been inefficient to have them that close 5 together and it is time to consolidate in light of the upgrade to 65 and the closing of the access off 6 of Paul Parkway. 7 8 Chief Zikmund indicated the call volume at Station 2 justifies placing the rescue fire pumper 9 because 98% of calls are crash rescues, car fires, wild land fires, and mobile homes. That rig 10 could service all calls and start on working structure fires and that station has the best access into 11 the biggest area of the fire district. 12 13 Chief Zikmund indicated he would like to secure three to five acres in northern Blaine for future 14 needs due to the housing expansion in the area. He then said that the City of Blaine has indicated 15 a willingness to acquire and hold the property until it is needed. 16 17 Chief Zikmund indicated that Allina may be interested in using more of Station 2 and that would 18 defray the costs of that station. 19 20 Mayor Linke asked if any space for the department was added at the Blaine City Hall. 21 22 Chief Zikmund indicated that in one of the two heated police garages they have the mini-pumper 23 and there are seven employees on the fire department and they respond in that mini-pumper and 24 they are becoming 85 percent of the day crew north of 85th with the mini-pumper. He then 25 explained that when there is a structure fire two are assigned to Station 3 or 4 and they go get the 26 full blown engine and additional water and hose. There would also be two other stations 27 responding on a working structure fire. 28 29 Mayor Linke suggested moving Station 2 to near the new City Hall to cover that area. 30 31 Chief Zikmund said he was not sure that the Council would close that station but he has always 32 believed he could operate this fire district with three stations. He then said there is not a real 33 good buyer for the property but he envisions that they do not recruit for that station over time so 34 he will be reducing the role of that station but, politically, it cannot be closed at this time. 35 36 Chief Zikmund showed a picture of the hazmat response vehicle and indicated that it goes out 16 37 to 20 times per year on calls such as meth labs. 38 39 Chief Zikmund indicated they need more space for training rooms as well as an incident 40 command room and then said that if they were able to construct an incident command stimulator 41 there would be income potential through rentals to other departments. 42 43 Chief Zikmund reviewed the long term savings of reducing stations. Chief Zikmund then 44 reviewed the costs if the City replaced existing equipment and did not reduce stations. 45