october 2018 monthly report - leland township fire &...

LTF&R OCTOBER 2018 MONTHLY REPORT

Helping To Protect The Peninsula

Leland Township Fire & Rescue 203 Grand Avenue

P.O. Box 578 Leland, MI 49654

(231) 256-7760

Monthly Report for October 2018 Total LTFR Responses in October 2018: 48

Year to Date Call Volume: 418 2017 Year to Date Call Volume: 358 (60 calls less than 2018)

2018 Projected Year-End: 501

Major Incident Type(s) Breakdown

Major Incident Type # of Incidents % of Total Rescue & Medical Services 26 54.2% Fires 2 4.2% False Alarm 0 0% Other 18 37.4% Special Incidents 2 4.2% TOTAL 48 Differential from last month: +1 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TTL

2017 27 23 26 29 41 54 51 45 35 27 32 38 428 2018 38 26 24 32 41 38 62 63 47 48 *

Difference +11 +3 -2 +3 0 -17 +11 +18 +12 +21 * *Year to date

Emergency Medical Services Total EMS Calls 26

Dispatched as: Priority 1: 11 Transported as: Priority 1: 0 Priority 2: 3 Priority 2: 5 Priority 3: 5 Priority 3: 9

Patients not transported: 10 Fire – Rescue Services Total Fire-Rescue Calls 22 Mutual Aid / Automatic Aid Given: 8 calls Received: 1 call


Leland Township Fire Rescue October 2018 Monthly Report

Page 2 Training Fire Personnel completed a total of 267.00 hours of training. Department training opportunities in September included training on:

• Forcible Entry & Door Access; Instructor: Lieutenant Dunklow • Michigan Urban Search and Rescue Rope Ops 1 class hosted by Leland Township Fire &

Rescue; Instructor: Joaquin Martinez; Grand Rapids Fire Department • Rescue Knot & Equipment Review; Instructor: Lieutenant Dunklow & FF. Ornelas

Calls by Shift

SHIFT ASSIGNED PERSONNEL CALLS FOR THE MONTH RED Lt. Johnson & FF. Korson 16

GREEN FF. Ball & FF. Walters 16 BLUE Lt. Dunklow & FF. Ornelas 16

Zone Statistics

ZONE OCTOBER 2018

YEAR TO DATE

Box 501 – North 5 42 Box 502 – East 5 25 Box 503 – South (LL) 12 83 Box 504 – South West 6 28 Box 505 – West (Leland) 8 91 Box 506 – Fishtown 1 14 Mutual Aid – Out of Leland Township 11 135 TOTAL 48 418



Page 3 Overlapping Calls Overlapping calls are two or more calls occurring at the same time before the Duty Crew is able to respond to it. For instance the Duty Crew could be responding to, arriving at, or at the scene of an incident when another call for service comes in. The duty crew could also be transporting to the hospital or returning from the hospital when another call for service comes in. The overlapping calls are handled differently based on geographical location, estimated time to clearing a call, whether our paid-on-call staff is available, or the priority assigned to the call. Sometimes a lift assist or a “non-emergent” call will be handled by the Duty Crew after they clear the previous call. In October 4 of our 48 calls overlapped – about 8.33% of the calls – including a call, on October 11th, for “something burning” in the northeast part of the township while we were handling a wire down, arcing, and blocking the roadway incident on North Manitou Trail south of the Village of Leland. On October 15th we were handling a wire down, arcing, and blocking the roadway call when we were dispatched to Mary Jane Lane for a tree down on a set of power lines – blocking the roadway. The 8.33% of overlapping calls for the month of October is comparable to our 8.37% (35 of the 418 calls) overlap average for 2018. Miscellaneous

• On October 1st we responded to a large tree blocking the roadway on Horn Road. We had to shut the roadway down for quite a while in order to remove the hazards.

• Also on October 1st we responded to a car versus the guardrail. We arrived to find the teenage driver uninjured but unable to move her vehicle from the roadway. She was in the blind curves near the Whaleback Inn so the fire department shut down the northbound lanes and directed traffic around the incident while law enforcement policed the crash and the wrecker arrived in order to remove the car from the scene. The driver refused medical attention and was released to her parents at the scene.

• A windstorm on October 3rd brought down several lines and trees across the roadways – the fire department helped to quickly and efficiently remove the trees where we could and reopen the roadways.

• Conducted more site inspections in order to produce more business pre-plans for the department. In October we began putting the pre-plans into training sessions and pushing them out to our personnel to study and become acquainted with. This will help with our ISO requirements during future audits.

• On October 10th, we responded to a car versus tree car accident on North Eagle Highway near North Manitou Trail. The restrained driver was evaluated by our paramedics and released at the scene. The pickup truck sustained significant damaged and had to be towed from the scene.



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• At the September Board of Trustees meeting I was alerted to the fact that the Leland Station has several bright lights that stay on almost all night long. The resident bringing it to my attention says it looks like the apparatus bay lights come on and light up the night. I spent a considerable amount of time looking into this – checking switches, breakers, settings, and timers. Eventually we removed two light banks from the motion sensor to lower the intensity and are working with the company who installed it to reduce the sensitivity of the motion sensors and reduce the “work time”. We discovered it was a bank of lights connected to a motion sensor that was causing all of the issues. As lights reflected off the street/traffic it bounced up, through the apparatus door’s glass, to the motion sensor and turned on all of the bank lights only to have the vicious cycle continue all night long. People, who I asked to keep an eye on it at night, say the problem has been resolved.

• On October 19th, at approximately 4:35 in the morning, we responded to a reported structure fire at the Riverside Inn (302 E. River Street) in Leland. As crews were responding it was announced that the caller was reporting a possible explosion at the scene as well. Lieutenant Chris Herman, responding directly from his home was on scene within 8 minutes of being dispatched and was able to give responding crews arrival instructions. Engine 511, containing our staffed Duty Crew, responded from the Lake Leelanau Fire Station and arrived within 9 minutes of the call. A quick knock down of the fire, along with a swift evacuation, reduced fire loss and injuries. Leland Township had 12 firefighters on scene and received mutual aid from Suttons Bay. Additional photos are below.

• Additional pre-plans entered into Active911 in order to facilitate responses to businesses in Leland Township.

• Attended fire and lockdown drills at Leland Public School and St. Mary’s School. Both schools did very well.

• Had our annual apparatus pump and draft testing evaluated by an outside vendor. All of our apparatus passed.

• Installed smoke alarms in an elderly resident’s home on North Manitou Trail. Her family alerted us to the fact that she may have non-functioning smoke alarms. We checked it out and replaced outdated or non-functioning smoke alarms and place several others in recommend areas (per the NFPA). The resident was very happy to have us do it for her.

• Attended the local Medical Control Authority Board, Leelanau County Fire Chiefs Association, 911 Advisory Committee (Leelanau County), Local Planning Team (Leelanau County), and Local Emergency Planning Committee (Leelanau County) meetings.

• In an effort to reduce risk, avoid crashes, and improve overall scene safety we installed two back-up/review cameras on our two main ambulances (Alpha 591 & Alpha 592).



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• Escorted the Leland Public School Boys’ High School soccer team from the school to the corner of M-22 and East Duck Lake Road. This follows a long standing Leland tradition.

• Organized and held Leland Township Fire & Rescue’s Public Wellness Day at the Old Art Building. Participants could choose to learn more about Hands-only CPR, Situational Awareness/Self-defense, Disaster Preparedness, and the Stop the Bleed! trauma program.

• Purchased specialized rope and rope rescue equipment in order to make it compliant with the NFPA recommendations for replacement/ tactical use. This was information we learned from the best of the best in the State of Michigan – the Michigan Urban Search and Rescue Team – an elite technical rescue team that specializes in high/low angle rope rescues, trench collapse, building collapse, confined space, and swift water rescue.

In September and October we hosted a four day National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)/Michigan Urban Search & Rescue (MUSAR) Roper Operations 1 course. We had nine (five full-time and four part-time) Leland Township Fire & Rescue personnel in the class. The class is designed to provide our personnel with the basic knowledge and skills needed to perform a rope system rescue. The class covers the use of rope, rope equipment, hardware, mechanical advantage system construction, belay & safety systems, anchor systems, and patient packaging. The course follows the policies of standard making agencies such as OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, and others. We made this class an urgent need due to the different terrain, access, and dynamics that our township has. Prior to the class calls for a fall/severe injury at “The Whaleback” may have required waiting until a specialized team to arrive from the Traverse City area before we could put things in motion to access, stabilize, and remove the patient.

We are also joining forces with Leelanau Township Emergency Services, Cedar Area Fire Department, and Blair Township Emergency Services to write a regional grant through FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighter Grant (AFG) for self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and spare bottles. Currently LTFR has several bottles and air packs approaching their 10 year recommended replacement date. LTFR also does not have a SCBA for every riding position as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association. That grant was written and submitted by me.

In October I was honored to be re-elected at the president of the Leelanau County Fire Chiefs Association. I am now entering my second year as their president. In addition to the Leelanau County Fire Chiefs Association I am also the chairperson for the Leelanau County 911 Advisory committee.



Page 6 In October we welcomed our newest hire, Chase Schelling, to our department. Chase lives near the Leelanau County/Grand Traverse County border and brings a strong work ethic, job skill set, and recommendations from his co-workers. Chase is a firefighter with the Grand Traverse Metro Fire Department, and he works for Northflight EMS as a paramedic. He was recruited to the department by full-time Firefighter/Paramedics Jared Ornelas and Kathryn Walters by bragging about how great it is to work for the Leland Township Fire & Rescue Department. Chase was hired as a paid-on-call firefighter. Welcome aboard Chase!

On Halloween night we opened the Leland Fire Station for trick or treaters. We set up the trucks inside the bay for people to look at and we had cider (warm and cold), coffee, donuts, hot dogs, chips, fire prevention goodies, and, of course, candy to pass out. Those needing to warm up could do so by visiting the fire pit we had outside. We’d like to thank the LVFD for their help sponsoring the event and making it happen. In closing, last month I mentioned we were beginning to “slow down” because we had responded to 47 calls for service in the month of September after handling 63 in August. Of course I was going off of our normal trends we see this time of year, but I may have mentioned it a little “too soon”. In October we ran on 48 calls which is one more than in September 2018 and 21 more than we did in October 2017! As mentioned above we responded to 358 calls for service from January 1st-October 31st, 2017. During the same timeframe in 2018 we responded to 418 calls for service. If you consider that we responded to 428 calls for service in all of 2017, which was our busiest number in our history, we are sure to eclipse that sooner than later! Of course I am proud of the way we handle our increased call volume with grace and professionalism. Sure I am proud of the response and how quickly we put our training to work at putting the fire out at the Riverside Inn but I am even more proud of our positive interactions we are having in the community! The members of this department like being counted on in the community and we enjoy being part of the community. Whether it is installing address signs, doing pre-plans, giving tours of our equipment/apparatus, hosting a public wellness day, helping to pass out candy or hotdogs on Halloween, or installing smoke alarms in someone’s home - we enjoy getting out in the community! Respectfully Submitted, Dan Besson Fire Chief


Paid-on-call Firefighters Shane Dunklow (L) and John VanRaaltee getting ready to work the rope lines during a training exercise.

Below: The final practical evolutions took place at the old power plant at the “Commons” in Traverse City

<- Firefighter/Paramedic Mike Ball practices his skills with his rope and harness.


During the months of September and October nine of our firefighters

participated in a NFPA Rope Operations 1 class designed at being to operate in both

high angle and low angle rescues.

Michigan Urban Search & Rescue

Rope Operations 1

Hosted by:

Leland Township Fire & Rescue


During the month of October our firefighters asked for permission to design and wear special tribute t-shirts for Breast

Cancer Awareness Month. Members purchased their own t-shirts.

OCTOBER

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Shirts were purchased by the employees individually and they were given approval to wear the

shirts on-duty by Chief Besson


Special thanks to the L.V.F.D for their contributions - making our Halloween

Event in Leland possible!


We responded to a structure fire at the Riverside Inn on October 19th. The caller reported seeing flames visible from the east side of the building with an explosion. Leland Township Fire & Rescue responded with 7 pieces of apparatus and 12 firefighters (not including mutual aid). Water source was at the DNR Boat Launch.

Riverside Inn

302 E. River Street October 19, 2018 Dispatched: 04:35

En route: 04:38 Arrival: 04:44

Under Control: 06:40 Cleared: 07:19


Special thanks to Suttons Bay- Bingham

Township for their assistance.

Photos taken after the fire – no damage noted in the dining room or guest rooms.


Arcing Power lines and fire near the Consumer Power Station on M-204 near French Road


In October (27th), we held our first

“Public Wellness Day” at the Old Art Building. This was an opportunity for the community to come learn Hands

Only CPR, Self-Defense, “Stop the Bleed”, and Disaster Preparedness.

Also in October we installed several smoke alarms in an elderly person’s

home.


In October, Assistant Chief Geoff Niessink led the charge to

install a back-up/rearview camera in both ambulances - helping us to avoid risk and improve safety!

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