1. Emergency Medical Service using Basic and Advanced Life Support ambulances staffed with Emergency Medical Technician-Ambulance and Paramedic-level members participating in the Northwest Community Emergency Medical Services System.
a. As a public service citizens may receive free blood pressure screening at the fire station seven-days-a-week during day-time and early evening hours.
b. When not engaged in emergency response activities the fire district will be able to assist those residents with special needs such as invalids. This service is limited to those people who need help on occasion and not a regular basis. Citizens in need or regular help must make other arrangements.
2. Rescue of persons trapped or distressed in automobile/transportation accidents, elevators, or open waters (such as ponds, lakes and streams).
a. As a member of the MABAS Division 1 and 3 dive teams additional assistance is automatically dispatched to any reported drowning incident.
b. When presented with unusual circumstances the fire district utilizes the services of the MABAS Special Rescue Team, of which it is a member.
3. Control, Containment and Mitigation of Hazardous Materials.
a. Fire district members provide level 1 response for basic incidents.
b. For more complicated incident the services of the MABAS Division 3 Hazardous Materials Response Team, of which the fire district is a member, can be summoned.
4. Fire Suppression and Control, both structural and flammable liquid.
5. Non-Emergency response and assistance to citizens with:
a. Broken water pipes.
b. Electrical problems.
c. Pet and wildlife emergencies.
d. Lock-out or lock-in assistance.
To this end, fire district services are generally limited to advisor in nature and not that of repair or mitigation. When able and safe to do so, fire district members will stop damage or remove potential hazards.
6. Public Fire and Safety Education including:
a. Tours of the fire station.
b. Attendance at block parties for equipment demonstrations.
c. School and Group visits, either at the fire station or within the fire district.
d. Fire safety lectures and demonstrations.
e. Home fire safety inspections by appointment.
f. Sales, service and installation of residential battery-powered smoke detectors.
g. Citizen CPR classes (such as one person CPR, infant CPR, etc.).
h. First aid classes for boy scouts, industry, and citizens groups.
7. Fire Prevention activities which include:
a. Inspection of all non-single family dwellings for compliance with fire and life-safety codes and regulations.
b. Review of building plans for all new and remodeling non-single family dwellings for compliance with fire and life-safety codes and regulations.
c. Pre-fire survey of non-single family dwelling sites to located hazards, utilities and other necessary information.
8. Fire and arson investigation to determine cause and origin.
9. Mutual aid (the sending fire apparatus or an ambulance) to neighboring communities which in turn will reciprocate with the fire district in the case of a large incident within our own area.
This list is not all-inclusive or exclusive and from time to time certain services offered, both emergency and non-emergency, may be added, modified or amended, or removed as deemed necessary by the fire district.
