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The
Montesano Fire Department exists to enhance the quality
of life of our community through effective and efficient
services.
To
anticipate and recognize the challenges in our community
and to proactively meet those challenges.
The
values of the Montesano Fire Department are:
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Honesty
- establishing trust in our leadership, our political
body, and between management, volunteers, and career
staff.
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Integrity
- maintaining high professional standards.
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Excellence
- through training and application of training in
deliverance of services.
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Compassion
- doing the little things that elevate us above
the average.
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Commitment
- to our mission as well as to our city council, management,
firefighters, and to our public.
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Self
Discipline - exercising self discipline to minimize
distractions and to enable us to focus on the tasks
at hand.
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Diversity
- embracing different ideas that promote positive
change.
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Safety
- promoting safety in all we undertake and to
the public we serve.
1. Emergency Medical Response- Basic Life Support and
Advanced Life Support
Goal:
Basic Life Support-To maintain a response force that
is qualified and certified by the State to provide Basic
Life Support (BLS) techniques to the citizens of our
jurisdiction.
Objective:
To recruit, maintain and train a volunteer force of
at least 32 volunteer EMT’s to meet the BLS response
needs of the citizens by 2004.
Goal:
Advanced Life Support-To maintain a response force that
is qualified and certified by the State to provide Advanced
Life Support (ALS) techniques to the citizens of our
jurisdiction.
Objective:
to recruit and maintain a career response force of
at least six Paramedics to meet the initial ALS response
needs of our citizens by 2005.
Goal: Staffing
- to provide a staffing level of two career responders
from the primary station(s) on a 24-hour basis by 2003.
At least one of these responders shall be a Paramedic/Firefighter.
Objective:
Increase the current level of career firefighter/PM
staffing by one position for a compliment of six in
2003.
Objective:
Increase the level of career staffing to a compliment
of nine by 2008.
Objective:
Increase the City Volunteer force 25% to a compliment
of 40 trained Firefighter/EMT’s by 2005.
Goal:
Response time -To maintain a response time that provides
our citizens the greatest possible chance of a positive
outcome involving a medical emergency.
Objectvie:
To maintain a four-minute response time within the
city 80% of the time.
Objective:
to maintain an eight-minute response time
in suburban areas 80% of the time.
Objective:
To maintain a twelve-minute response time to rural
areas 80% of the time.
Objective:
To maintain a thirty-minute response time to remote
wildland areas 80% of the time.
2.
Fire suppression
Goal:
To maintain a response force that is qualified and meets
Washington State standards to provide rescue,
fire attack and suppression services to the citizens
of our jurisdiction.
Objective:
Develop draft ordinances for the City Council’s consideration
that address’ current and future organizational Structure,
Qualifications and State requirements.
Objective:
Incorporate Volunteer firefighters as well as Career
firefighters in the draft ordinances.
Objective:
Utilizing the appropriate mechanisms and forums,
develop these draft ordinances in cooperation with
the Career and Volunteer organizations by 2004.
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3.
Emergency Ambulance Transport
Goal:To
improve the Fire Departments capability to provide emergency
ambulance transports through a tiered transport system.
Objective:
To maintain current practice of utilizing qualified
paramedics to triage patients for ALS and BLS transport.
Objective: To
guarantee that a qualified paramedic will be on duty
to assess and transport those patients in need of
advanced life support by 2003.
Objective: To
guarantee that a qualified paramedic will be on duty
to assess and assign BLS transport for those patients
in need of Basic Life Support care by 2003.
4. Hazardous
Materials Initial Response
Goal:To
provide training that will raise the response capability
from Hazardous Materials Awareness levels to an Operation
Level.
Objective:
To train all career personnel to an Operational level
by 2005.
Objective:
To train all volunteer firefighters to a Hazardous
Materials Awareness level by 2005.
5.
Fire Prevention/Code Enforcement
Goal:To
develop a comprehensive management plan addressing code
Enforcement, Fire Prevention and Fire education that
meets applicable state and federal requirements.
Objective:
Draft a new ordinance for City Council consideration
adopting the 2000 Uniform Fire Code by July 2003.
Objective: Develop and implement a code enforcement
program based on the 2000 Uniform Fire Code that ensures
that institutions and places of public assembly are
inspected every twelve months by 2004.
Objective:
By 2006, develop and implement a code enforcement
program based on the 2000 Uniform Fire Code that ensures
that all commercial occupancies are inspected at least
every twenty-four months.
Objective: Institute a structured on-going Fire
Prevention program for grades K-6 by 2004.
Objective: Develop
and implement a Fire Education program for senior citizens
by 2005.
6. Non-Emergency
Ambulance Transport
Goal:To
maintain a non-emergency ambulance transport capability
based and managed by the Montesano Fire Department.
Objective: To manage Fire Department resources in
cooperation with other resources to assure that patients
requiring transport of a non-emergency nature are assured
of transport by 2004.
Objective:
To continue to provide a fire-based non-emergency transport
service utilizing paid on-call firefighters from the
ranks of the Montesano Fire Department.
7. Inter-Facility
Ambulance Transport
Goal:To maintain
an inter-facility ambulance transport capability based
and managed by the Montesano Fire Department.
Objective: To continue to manage Fire Department
resources to assure that patients requiring Inter-facility
transport are assured transport to the appropriate
facility.
Objective:
To continue to provide a fire-based inter-facility
transport service utilizing paid on-call firefighters
from the ranks of the Montesano Fire Department.
8. Community
Service programs
Goal: To increase community service programs based
on availability of career and volunteer personnel.
Objective:
Continue providing citizen Blood Pressure checks,
but only as personnel are available.
Objective:
Provide community service programs as personnel
are available by utilizing volunteer and career personnel.
Objective:
By 2004, revise City Ordinances dealing with volunteers
to include volunteers who are not firefighters or
EMT's.
Objective:
By 2008, have a self-sustaining Community
Service program utilizing administrative volunteers.
9. Public Education
Goal: To increase public education programs based
on availability of career and volunteer personnel.
Objective: Provide
public education classes as personnel are available
by utilizing volunteer and career personnel.
Objective:
Recruit ten to twelve administrative volunteers and
train to provide public education classes by 2005.
Objective: By 2008, have a self-sustaining Public
Education program utilizing administrative volunteers.
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