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Full-time Firefighters
Lakeville Area Public SchoolsTuesday, August 20, 2024
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:16] look having full-timers on duty sleeping
[0:20] at the station within 50 yards from
[0:23] their truck is massive it's pretty nice
[0:25] to be able to be on site when we get
[0:28] calls instead of responding from from
[0:30] our house to the fire station now makes
[0:32] it a lot quicker lot smoother from the
[0:34] time that we get page until the station
[0:36] or the truck goes in route is what we
[0:38] call a turnout time so previously that
[0:41] would be somewhere in a range of 5 to
[0:43] six minutes for people to get up from
[0:45] their you know leave their house or
[0:46] their work to get to the station to
[0:48] staff a truck and go on the call uh with
[0:50] a staff truck that turnout time is less
[0:52] than 2 minutes and that is one of our
[0:54] goals that we had when we started down
[0:56] this uh this uh Staffing was to be 2
[1:00] minutes or less that's the average that
[1:01] we want to get them out the door on any
[1:04] call obviously our travel time driving
[1:07] from the station to that incident is the
[1:10] travel time there's not much we can
[1:11] change about that just due to the roads
[1:13] and the distance that we're traveling
[1:14] but our our overall response time as
[1:17] example used to be with uh the pay on
[1:20] call staffing and it is what it is is
[1:23] would be 12 to 14 minutes before we get
[1:25] a truck on scene right now with just one
[1:28] truck because they're covering the ENT
[1:29] entire city they're at that they're at 9
[1:31] Minutes 13 seconds to get on scene so
[1:34] that's a pretty dramatic shift full-tim
[1:37] if they're already at the
[1:38] station boom they're in the truck right
[1:40] away they're already down the road
[1:42] they're getting information they already
[1:44] have dedicated tasks like one guy I know
[1:47] is going to force the door and then the
[1:49] other guy's going to be pulling a line
[1:51] in the front door and so a lot of the
[1:53] times we can save a lot of property just
[1:55] because we're taking out the fires so
[1:57] fast before they actually spread to the
[1:59] rest of the house so that's like a big
[2:01] I'd say that's like the major advantage
[2:03] of having full-timers I I do I think
[2:05] it's gotten a lot smoother um both sides
[2:08] have kind of come together the fulltime
[2:10] and the pan on call side um we have
[2:14] figured out how to make it a smooth
[2:17] transition from my standpoint the the
[2:20] comfort is knowing we have a truck that
[2:22] is staffed all the
[2:24] time versus when we were doing a pay on
[2:26] you know paid on 100% pay on call we're
[2:29] paging out of state and we never know
[2:32] are we getting enough people to respond
[2:34] to that emergency next year when we add
[2:36] a second truck that staff we're going to
[2:39] watch that that come down to our goal is
[2:41] to be at about 7 minutes 30 seconds to
[2:43] have a truck on scene for any incident
[2:46] in the city of Lakeville
[2:48] [Music]