2018 Fire Department Annual Report

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2018 Annual Report • Fire Department • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota 24 | P a g e The fire department has a program to sit down with residents of the City of St. Anthony, made possible in part through a partnership with the American Red Cross. The program is called a Home Safety Survey. The Survey is initiated with a call to the fire department to schedule an appointment. After a date and time is agreed upon, the crew working that day will come to your house and visit with you personally and answer any fire or safety related questions you may have. Typically the survey involves discussing safety of all kinds regarding your home specifically. Cooking, use of electrical adapters, fireplaces, trip and fall hazards, having medical information readily available (like the previously mentioned File of Life) as well as Carbon Monoxide and Fire Alarms. The emphasis of the survey is checking locations of smoke alarms already in the home, the date of those alarms, and possible spots to put additional alarms. This is not a formal fire inspection but a very informal discussion. We do require a simple informational sheet we fill out and return to the Red Cross. Based on the situation and need, we are able to supply up to 3 fire alarms at no cost. These are supplied to us at no cost (thru the partnership) by the American Red Cross. HEART SAFE COMMUNITY The City of St. Anthony continues to be recognized by the American Heart Association and Minnesota Department of Health as a Heart Safe Community. This was accomplished thru an application process that focused on our readiness as a community to handle any type of cardiac event within the city. This not only looked at the readiness and equipment level of the personnel responding to a 911 call for help; police, fire and Ambulance, it also focused on the community at large. Our Police officers are trained as first responders, and as state certified EMT’s the members of the St. Anthony Fire Department have special training in handling any cardiac event. Our city also teams up with Hennepin County Medical Center for our ambulance service. All these levels of care from basic through advanced care, were viewed as highly favorable on our application. But that was not all that was required. We also needed to demonstrate the community itself was ready for action. This is where all of our CPR training done in the schools, and CPR classes given by members of the department to the local public come into play. But yet there was more needed! We made an attempt to locate businesses that have public access to an AED or Automated External Defibrillator. This tool plays a big role in