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CHANHASSEN FIRE DEPARTMENT
P.O. Box 97.7610 Laredo Drive. Chanhassen, MN 55317
Bus. Phone 934-9191 . Minnewashta Station NO.2. Phone 474-7094
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
FROM:
Gregg Geske- Fire Chief
Sherri Walsh - 15t Assistant Chief O~-
Randy Wahl- 2nd Assistant Chief <(y'
Mark Littfin- Fire Marshal
Ed Coppersmith - Training Officer
DATE:
October 17, 2005
SUBJ:
Monthly City Council update
Fire Department Overview:
Staffing is at 39 active firefighters and 6 on probation as of October 17, 2005; allocation is 45 PTEs.
As of October 1, we were at 462 calls for the year, up 34 from 428 at the same time in 2004. We had
a tremendous turnout for our Open House, weather was on our side. Although we did not count
them, we would estimate the attendance to be around 1,000 to 1,100 people. Since our last report, we
have not had any structure fires, but we were out for some weather related calls and a house struck by
lightning. We assisted the public works department with a water removal call.
Fire Training:
During the month of September, the Fire Department conducted rescue training in the form of triage
training and we also had a refresher on ambulance orientation. The new hire firefighters are doing
well and are midway through their Firefighter I class.
Fire Marshal:
No fires to report. We have been responding to a few false fire alarms. Ed and I follow up on these
calls in an attempt to correct or eliminate the problems. Half of these calls are business alarms and
the other half are residential alarms.
Todd Gerhardt
October 17, 2005
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Fire Inspections:
We have finished inspections of gas stations, and have started the re-inspection process. Most, if not
all, are fixing or repairing the fire code violations that were discovered during our initial inspections.
Once we have finished our fire prevention week activities, we will prioritize our next group of
businesses to inspect. We have also been accompanying the building inspectors when they do their
annual apartment inspections.
Fire Prevention:
We have just concluded our fire prevention week activities. Numbers will be available on next
month's report. Briefly, we either visited or had students visit from the four elementary schools as
well as 600 kids from the Early Childhood Center in Chaska. The Fire Department Open House on
October 16 was a huge success. We will have more information on the Open House in next month's
report.