06-09-2025 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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Fire Advisory Board Meeting Minutes Section 2A. March 5, 2025 - Page 3 was 1 call on December 2, 2024, which was a Station 2 call for a personal injury rollover incident with injuries. He explained that in service time was 1 minute, 42 seconds and the on scene time was 5:56 seconds. Fire Chief Heiland reviewed the Duty Crew information for January 2025 and reminded the FAB that he calculated this information for shifts during the day where they have 2 people on a Duty Crew shift. He stated that for the month of January they had 5 calls on Duty Crew shifts and reviewed details of the call information. He noted that the LLFD had been pretty consistent at around 50% with their volunteer Duty Crew program and felt the Duty Crew program was still going well. Long Lake Councilmember Dyvik asked about the first 2 in-service times, which were longer than the LLFD would like. Fire Chief Heiland noted that the second call, which had the on -scene time of around 14 minutes, was a mutual aid call, which was something that they would wait for a full crew to arrive. He noted that the first call was for a medical call and noted there were times with that type of call that they also would wait for a full crew. Long Lake Councilmember Dyvik asked about the breakdown of remote work and asked if those were for the Firefighters that chose to have the lower stipend amount in order to also work their normal job. Fire Chief Heiland confirmed that was correct and reviewed how the remote work option was set up for the Firefighters and explained that he felt it was a helpful option for the LLFD. He noted that he felt Saturday afternoons had been kind of a bust for Duty Crews and reminded the Board that at the last meeting they had discussed the possibility of experimenting with a weeknight. Discuss PT Duty Crews Weske explained that he had added this to the agenda as a placeholder because he thought there may end up being an opportunity for it, but did not know if they were in a position to even be able to talk about it. Long Lake Councilmember Dyvik suggested that they hold off on this discussion because Long Lake and Orono were still negotiating on what this may look like. He explained that he felt the negotiations were looking good and felt that they were pretty close. He noted that the current fire services contract goes through the end of 2025, so the question also becomes what the rest of 2025 would look like and also what will things look like beginning January 1, 2026. Long Lake Councilmember Newcomer asked what kind of drills the LLFD was planning for 2025. Fire Chief Heiland noted that they currently have 2 houses that may be burned. Long Lake Councilmember Newcomer expressed frustration that the City of Wayzata had not reached out with an opportunity to conduct some drills during their recent tear down of the old bank building. He suggested that the LLFD may want to reach out to every nearby city and communicate that if they have permits that involve a tear down that they consider allowing the LLFD to do a drill. He noted that they would not even have to burn them, but it would still provide drilling opportunities for the LLFD.