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From YouTube: EVANSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT 2016 ANNUAL REPORT
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A
Our
mission,
the
reason
we
exist,
is
to
protect
property
life
in
the
environment,
and
we
do
so
with
honor
bravery
and
dedication,
our
core
values,
which
we
take
very
seriously
with
the
department,
it's
our
personality,
so
to
speak.
A
service,
professionalism
and
tradition
service
refers
to
a
commitment
to
the
community.
Our
duty
to
serve
professionalism
is
that
we're
committed
to
keep
the
highest
levels
of
knowledge,
skills
and
ability.
A
Our
organizational
structure
has
me,
as
fire
chief
leading
a
command
administrative
staff
of
three
division,
Chiefs
and
three
civilian
positions.
That
is
these
civilian
positions,
are
an
administrative
secretary
management
analyst
and
a
plan
reviewer
division,
chief
Paul
polyp
leads
our
emergency
medical
services
operations
as
well
as
serves
as
the
department's
public
information
officer
and
does
IT
support
chief
hole
serves
as
our
emergency
preparedness
manager
for
the
city
as
well
as
leads
our
special
operations
division,
which
incorporates
our
specialty
teams
like
technical
rescue
and
hazardous
materials.
A
A
If
you
look
at
this
trend
over
the
past
30
years
since
1987,
you
see,
we
have
a
65%
increase
in
calls
or
service.
During
that
time,
this
particular
slide.
I
I
think
we
all
can
take
pride
in
and
it's
one
of
the
most
important
slides
in
the
presentation,
because
it
talks
about
response
times.
The
National
Fire
Protection
Association
standard
for
response
times
and
fire
and
EMS
is
four
minutes.
It's
a
very,
very
good
standard,
a
very
good
response
time
which
many
the
city's
Canon
cannot
meet.
And
yet
you
look
at
our
average
response
time.
A
It's
three
minutes
and
two
seconds
we're
well
below
that
standard,
and
this
is
critical
to
fire
and
life
safety
and
something
we
all
should
take
pride
in
when
you
look
at
the
numbers
to
the
right.
The
fact
that
we
had
114
fires
in
2016,
and
yet
we
were
able
to
keep
the
savable
portion
of
that
at
ninety
percent.
Just
a
little
bit
higher
is
a
testament
to
those
response
times.
The
fact
that
we
had
zero
fire
fatalities
in
2016.
A
If
you
might
expect,
if
someone
has
an
acute
medical
condition,
are
very
severe,
traumatic
injury,
your
odds
of
survival
increase
greatly
the
sooner
we
can
deliver
to
you,
definitive
medical
care,
and
if
you
pull
out
just
for
a
moment,
cardiac
arrest,
American,
Heart,
Association
statistics
prove
out
that
if
we
can
get
the
fibrillation
and
advanced
life
support
care
within
the
staff,
you
minutes
of
that
arrest,
you
have
the
best
chances
of
survival.
In
fact,
every
minute
of
delay
causes
a
reduction
at
survival
by
7
to
10
percent.
A
A
Staffing
is
other
key
component
of
this
and
you'll
see
that
our
daily
staffing
is
26
across
all
our
five
stations
throughout
the
city
of
Evanston.
These
response
times
our
staffing
our
extent
water
supply
our
communications
within
the
city,
our
community
risk
reduction
efforts
all
contribute
to
the
fact
that
we
have
a
I
soaked,
Public
Protection
classification
of
which
places
the
Evanston
fire
department
at
1.8
percent
of
all
departments
in
the
United
States
again,
something
we
can
be
very,
very
proud
of.
A
We
talk
about
community
risk-reduction.
Some
of
our
Firebird
intervention
activities
are
something
that
we're
going
to
maintain
in
a
high
level.
Is
we
have
proactive
engagement
with
respect
to
these
types
of
activities
which
we
hope
save
lives?
You
should
expect
this
type
of
activity
to
continue
in
the
future.
A
We
have
to
fire
vention
Bureau
inspectors,
as
well
as
a
fire
plan
reviewer
and
the
activities
you
see
here
are
also
supported
by
our
shift
personnel
who
do
on
duty
company
inspections
as
well
as
help
support
some
of
the
public
education
activities
like
to
switch
gears
here
just
a
little
bit
and
talk
about
some
of
the
great
community
engagement
activities
that
the
department
is
done
in
2016.
The
first
is
our
fire
Explorer
program,
which
has
30
members
currently
and
is
over
70
since
its
inception
in
2012.
A
A
Next
is
their
citizens,
Fire,
Academy
and
I
can
say,
with
a
high
degree
of
confidence
that
we
have
one
of
the
best,
if
not
the
best
citizens
Fire
Academy
program
in
the
country.
It's
not
because
the
numbers
we
produce,
which
you
can
see
are
pretty
good,
but
it's
the
way
we
do
it
most
citizen
fire
academies
across
the
country
are
just
powerpoints
and
classrooms,
and
you
can
see
that
we
immerse
and
interact
with
with
adults
throughout
the
Evanston
community
and
really
kind
of
showing
what
the
job
is
all
about
and
let
them
participate.
A
A
Our
citizen
CPR
program
is
going
strong
effect.
We
had
a
record
year
of
521
people
that
were
certified
in
2016,
and
we
look
at
this
as
a
public
safety
initiative,
because
the
more
people
that
have
this
type
of
quality
training,
we
feel
the
better
chances
of
someone
who
experiences
a
cardiac
arrest
in
the
city
will
have
someone
there
nearby.
They
can
perform
this
important
type
of
life-saving
maneuvers.
We
have
two
types
of
programs
within
this:
one
is
for
the
general
public
and
one
is
for
healthcare
professionals.
A
Some
other
highlights
are
2016
I,
like
to
point
out
our
Emergency
Management
Division
led
a
multi
department
effort
to
help
prepare
the
city
respond,
function
and
recover
never
face
what
a
natural
or
man-made
adverse
event
that
impacted
the
city.
We,
along
with
human
resources,
successfully
completed
a
fire
apparatus
operator
promotional
process,
our
firefighters,
an
average
in
2016,
completed
over
400
hours
of
training,
including
pediatric
life,
support,
certification
and
thanks
to
some
great
help
in
collaboration
with
the
IT
department.
A
Some
other
highlights
for
16
years,
B&E
initiated
an
after
fire
program.
The
after
the
fire
program
is
utilized
to
assist
me
write
information
to
residents
who
have
the
unfortunate
incident
of
having
a
house
fire
helps
them
through
that
recovery
process.
Select
Sundays
2016
were
able
to
partner
with
the
Evanston
special
recreation
department
and
participate
in
Illinois,
Special,
Olympics,
unified
sports
or
teamed
up.
Firefighters
would
develop
many
disabled
adults
and
we
work
together
on
some
great
team
sports
management.
A
Looking
ahead
to
2017,
we
hope
to
through
our
emergency
management
division,
to
continue
enhance
our
preparedness
posture
with
improvements
and
our
emergency
alerting
capability.
Our
Emergency
Operations
Center,
continued
preparedness,
training
for
the
city,
as
well
as
updating
our
Emergency
Operations
emergency
evacuation
and
emergency
resource
plans.
We
have
already
begun
and
we
will
complete
in
2017,
promotional
testing
for
the
ranks
of
shift
teeth
and
fire
captain
we're
also,
in
collaboration
with
our
telecommunications
center,
to
finalize
the
final
steps
of
our
new
CAD
software
platform,
as
well
as
fire
reporting
systems.
A
Also
in
2017,
we
look
to
put
a
new
pre-hospital
reporting
software
that
will
be
more
efficient
and
have
better
CAD
integration.
We're
gonna
be
putting
in
place
emergency
pre-planned
software
and
what
that
does
is
allow
firefighter
as
well
and
route
to
an
incident
able,
through
their
MDT
or
mobile
mobile
data
terminal,
hit
vital
building
information
and
fire
protection
system
information
in
route
to
a
call
which
allows
them
the
best
apply.
The
strategy
and
tactics
to
mitigate
the
incident.
A
We're
going
to
be
kind
of
enhancing
our
public
education
programs
throughout
all
the
evidence
in
public
schools
K
through
5.
In
the
past,
we
had
focused
efforts
only
during
Fire
Prevention
Week,
only
touching
upon
a
few
grades
in
2017
we're
going
to
be
reaching
over
4,000
students
as
we'll
hit
every
student
in
Evanston
K.