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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 28, 2001 • Page 9 1 • Trained in EMS, CPR, cardiac arrest management, vehicle extrication, airway 2 management, technical rescue, ice and water rescue. 3 • SAFD are the First Responders to the community. 4 • HCMC ambulance provides paramedic and transport services. 5 6 Fire Chief Hewitt indicated that Fire Fighters are the first to come to the scene of an emergency. The 7 average response time is two minutes and 40 seconds. 8 9 Fire EMS: 10 • Firefighters supplement HCMC on critical care incidents. 11 • HCMC ambulance responds to all SAFD medical responses. 12 • Paramedics have the ability to provide drug therapy. 13 • 681 medical incidents in 2000- 72.6& of them were emergency medical events. 14 15 NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency) 1720: 16 • Adopted May 2001. 17 • Is a deployment standard. 18 • Is not a mandate. !9 • Applies to volunteer departments, paid per call departments, combination o departments of career and paid per call, such as the Fire Department in the City 21 of St. Anthony. 22 • Final document has yet to be published. 23 • Four trained firefighters shall assemble on the scene before initiating as interior 24 structure attack. 25 • Once assembled, operations shall begin within two minutes, 90% of the time. 26 27 O.S.H.A 2 In/Out- This is a mandate. 28 • Four firefighters have to assemble on the scene prior to beginning as interior 29 attack. 30 • Two of the four have to remain outside as a rescue crew for the two that go in. 31 32 Fire Chief Hewitt indicated that the only time that O.S.H.A 2 in/out can be violated is when they are 33 told that there is someone in the house and needs immediate rescue, or if the fire is in its incipient stage. 34 Supplemental Firefighters: 35 • Public Works are not FF 1 (Firefighter 10 1) trained except for two who have 36 been trained from other fire departments. 37 • Untrained Public Works personnel who do not have FF I cannot be used as a X38 firefighter. 40 Supplemental Firefighters: 41 • Proposal would cost approximately $75,000 the first year and $37,000 each 42 year after.