City of Lincoln Fire Department Activity Report for January 2015

[February 25, 2015]  LINCOLN - Below is the report filed by the City of Lincoln Fire Department and presented to the City Council on February 17th, for the month of January 2015.

Emergency runs for January 2015 included the Lincoln Firefighters responding to 176 alarms; 2 building fires and 3 cooking fires, 10 false alarms, 1 carbon monoxide incident and 4 motor vehicle accidents.

Fire related runs 49
EMS related runs 122
Rescue related runs 5

Well kicking off 2015 things have slowed a bit but Firefighters responded on two working structure fires and as we have : seen in the past a steady report of cooking fires. Treacherous weather has kept crews responding to motor vehicle accident including rollovers and entrapment.

Here at the Fire Station Lincoln High School helpers have returned from Christmas break and are hard at work. Brock and Kody have been shredding papers for the Fire Department as well as the Clerk's office. The boys with their teacher attendants clean the fire station offices and hallway doing a spectacular job. The boys are learning responsibilities and beginning to work on track.

Plan reviews continue as firefighters visit many of our commercial businesses and plan for events by understanding what loads are present in buildings as well as entry and access routes throughout the commercial buildings. This activity helps Lincoln Fire Department in its efforts to give back to the community in providing fire safety tips, and code compliance.

Training in January includes annual respiratory protection fit testing, hazardous materials refresher, annual records review for staff, SCBA refresher and consumption course training.

[Taken from the City of Lincoln Website]