2018 Fire Department Annual Report

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6. Services. The SBFD built and opened a new Fire Station 4 on North Olive Street in June of 2018. This station was built to LEED specifications and was designed to provide cancer risk reduction and improved health and wellness benefits for the firefighters stationed there. Examples of those benefits are an expanded weight/fitness room and zone design that isolates contaminated air, equipment, and vehicles from the living quarters in the station.The Department began construction of-a new Station 9 on the east side of the city which will also be a LEED certified building with many of the same features of Station 4.One of the items unique to Station 9 is the extra apparatus bay in which the Department will house a boat truck designed to respond to water rescue emergencies due to the close proximity to the boat ramp at Memorial Park. Updates were made to the vehicle exhaust systems at Stations 1, 2, and 9 to reduce cancer risk at those stations from vehicle exhaust.New gear extractors (turn-out gear washers) installed at station 10 and 11 to increase our capacity to wash turn-out gear to further reduce cancer risk among our employees. Development of a peer support group for critical incident debriefings to help combat the effects of PTSD on the Fire Department personnel was performed. The Department took delivery of two new pumper trucks replacing old vehicles that were over 20 years old. MI Mail 'V Ili ARIIIii I i — i.1 i1i 1..1_-1,, h �' ..� a+ 7. Special Operations. The SBFD special operations teams include the Hazmat, dive, swiftwater rescue,and technical rescue teams.Trainers from the Hazmat team provided an 80 hour hazmat technician course in order to provide this level of certification for an additional 6 personnel. The river rescue trainers provided 4,week-long schools in 2018 for personnel from all throughout the region. These