It is
that time of year again. Fire departments across the
country have begun planning and preparing for Fire
Prevention
week. NFPA announced the 2008 Theme on June 1 - and
it is
an exciting one.
Your Home should be a safe haven. But do you regularly
check for
home fire hazards? If not, there is the potential for
danger. Fire
departments responded to nearly 400,000 home fires in
2006.
That's why the theme of Fire Prevention Week 2008 is
Prevent Home
Fires!
Farmland Volunteer Fire Territory,
Dear Resident
We are writing to
ask your help with a very important project. As members of
the Farmland Volunteer Fire Department, we are dedicated
to providing a high level of service to the area in which
we are entrusted to protect.
At this time the
Farmland Volunteer Fire Department is in the process of
attempting to raise funds for the department’s Indiana
Medical Services First Responder Program. This project
will greatly improve the lives of those who live and work
in our territory by allocating funds for the purchase of
medical supplies as well as maintenance of the vehicle
used to respond to medical calls. First Responders are
trained volunteer’s who respond to and provide services at
medical emergencies. First Responders are often the first
trained professionals to arrive on the scene and often
provide the first detailed scene information to managing
authorities and other responding agencies. First
Responders may then continue to assist in incident
stabilization and patient care under the direction and
supervision of highly trained medical specialists, such as
Emergency Medical Technicians.
The majority of the
emergency incidents to which our department is called to
respond fall under the category of medical runs. In 2007,
First Responder’s from our department responded to
ninety-one (91) medical calls which at the end of the year
made up fifty-one percent (51%) of all emergency runs for
2007. As of September 3, 2008, our department has had one
hundred and forty (140) emergency calls, eighty-six (86)
of which were medical runs, which comes to sixty-one
percent (61%) of calls being medical emergencies so far
this year.
We welcome our new
neighbors to our community and we take this opportunity to
ask you to please assist us with meeting the operating
needs of our department so we can provide you with the
best service in response to your medical and fire/rescue
emergencies. To our old friends, thank you for your
unwavering support. Please take the time to mail your
tax-deductible donation for 2008 today.
Also, at this time,
the Farmland Volunteer Fire Department is actively
recruiting volunteers. The minimum requirements for
volunteers are as follows: You must be at least fourteen
(14) years old or older, (volunteers under the age of
fourteen (14) are classified as junior firefighters and do
not respond to emergency scenes), must live in the fire
territory of Farmland Volunteer Fire Department, have a
valid driver’s license (exceptions are made for
volunteer’s under the age of sixteen (16) years) and be
willing to complete the training process required by the
Indiana Standards Education Commission and be certified as
a level one (1) firefighter within two (2) years of
membership. If you are interested in becoming a member,
applications and a copy of the departmental by-laws are
available at the Farmland City Building during regular
business hours.
PS: Don’t forget
Fire Prevention Day, Saturday, October 11, 2008!
Farmland Volunteer
Fire Department
Mike Osgood, Fire
Chief
www.farmlandfire.com
