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Orono Fire Needs Assessment <br />20 | Page <br /> <br />Auxiliary Power Generator, Natural Gas <br />Condition Fair <br />Special Considerations <br />Adequate storage, ADA Accessible, Dual <br />Gender Appropriate. <br />Square Footage 6,900 <br />Facilities Available <br />Exercise/Workout Yes, in lounge room <br />Kitchen Yes, adjacent to exercise area <br />Crew Quarters No crew rooms <br />Lockers/Showers Yes, but not enough for staff <br />Training/Meetings Yes, but small <br />Technology Yes, but needs updates <br />Washer/Dryer No washer but a dryer <br />Gear Extractor/Dryer Yes, but extractor is 20 years old <br />Safety and Security <br />Sprinkler System Yes <br />Smoke Detection Yes <br />Security Yes, no cameras <br />Apparatus Exhaust System No <br />Units/Staffing Levels Assigned <br />Apparatus list follows. All units staffed <br />via Paid-On-Call firefighters <br /> <br />Firefighters are at a significantly higher risk than the general population to develop cancer (21% <br />higher colon cancer risk, 39% higher skin cancer risk, 102% higher testicular cancer risk, etc.)4. <br />This risk is a direct result of their firefighting activities – they are frequently exposed to highly <br />toxic and carcinogenic compounds at the fire scene, and they bring those compounds back to <br />the fire station on every hose, ladder, fire truck and piece of personal protective equipment <br />that was anywhere near the fire. In addition, operating diesel fire trucks inside the fire station <br />has resulted in massive amounts of diesel particulates permeating the apparatus bay (one large <br />study showed a typical apparatus bay has concentrations 16 times above EPA Standards). <br />While Long Lake Fire has made every effort to not allow the diesel trucks to idle inside the bays, <br />just starting and moving them results in large amounts of particulates released into the air. <br />Both the fireground toxins and the diesel particulates are so small that they hang suspended in <br />the air for long periods of time, so the risk does not go away between calls but rather is <br />consistent every time the apparatus bay is entered. Apparatus Bays are not a safe place to <br />work, not a safe place to store equipment and supplies, and not a safe place to walk through to <br />gain access to adjoining spaces. Any adjoining space that is not properly protected through air <br /> <br />4 Taking Action Against Cancer in the Fire Service, www.firefightercancersupport.org