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Second the Fire Event such as a structure fire on Big Island during boating season. This type of event <br />triggers an All Call, which means that both stations are paged. We also have auto -aid set up through <br />Hennepin County Dispatch with Wayzata, Excelsior and Mound. This basically means that those <br />departments are paged when we are paged. Our Duty Officer goes to Maxwell Bay Landing to prep the <br />area for launching the boat. If we have not been assigned a talk -group to communicate with Water Patrol, <br />they request one. This talk -group is used for command only all other communication on an assigned <br />HFIRE talk -groups. Station 1 utilizes U11 to trailer B11 to the landing and Station 2 responds to the same <br />landing with R21. Before U11 leaves the station the officer in charge makes sure that there is a qualified <br />crew and boat driver. They also gather up our Big Island equipment, which is kept on a trailer. They <br />place the equipment into the boat before leaving. The Big Island equipment consists of ice auger, 2 <br />portable pumps, 3 sections of hard suction with strainers, 200' of 3" supply hose, 300' of 1 3/4' attack hose <br />and miscellaneous nozzles, adapters, gated wyes and wrenches. The officer in charge of R21 makes <br />sure that we have a qualified crew before responding. The crew assemblies and launches the boat at <br />the landing. The other fireboats are going to the address and the first arriving unit will give an initial radio <br />report, which paints a picture for all other incoming units as to what is going on and how it will be mitigated. <br />Usually that first arriving unit will be assigned operations. Our Duty Officer will pick a good location for <br />unified command and staging for all other incoming units. Once our boat arrives, we can almost beach <br />the boat and offload all of the equipment with the front plank down. Our boat will then come back to the <br />staging area and shuttle firefighters out to the scene. The initial boat crew will set up the two portable <br />pumps to either pump separately or relay pump this will all depend on the situation. We use the hard <br />suction hoses to pull water from the lake. The 3" hoses are used to either supply the 1 %" attack lines or <br />a master stream device. If more hose is needed then in the Big Island Pack, we have more supply hose <br />in the compartments on the boat. The other fireboats from the surrounding fire departments are set up <br />to use their master stream devices to make initial hits on the fire, if they can reach it with them. If they <br />cannot reach the fire with the master stream device then we will utilize them to shuttle firefighters and <br />equipment to the scene also. <br />Our fire response to Big Island changes when we have ice conditions. We utilize Hennepin County Water <br />Patrol to move us to and from the island during thin ice conditions with their airboats. When given the <br />clear to use ATVs on the ice we utilize U12, which would be trailered to a safe location to gain access to <br />the ice. The ATV will then trailer the equipment out the island where we would cut a hole in the ice for <br />access to the water. This response has not changed from our past response. <br />Our boat is set up different then the other fireboats in our area. We have our pump pre -connected to 2 <br />attack lines for better control and accuracy to attack a fire. We can change over to a master stream <br />device if needed. The unique aspect of our boat is the design of the hull and the front plank. It is more <br />of a flat bottom boat that has pros and cons. The cons are that it is harder to control in rough water and/or <br />high winds. The pros are that loading a patient who is in the water is easier sliding them in with the front <br />plank down then hoisting them over the side of the boat. It is also easier to offload and load equipment <br />with the boat almost beached then bringing them over the side of the boat. Our boat is roomier then <br />others which helps when working on a patient. We have had this boat since 2006 and originally it was <br />docked on Tanager Lake. Sam and Joyce Marfield donated the boat, trailer and U13. It was moved <br />shortly after I was hired to Smiths Bay with the help of Gabriel Jabbour and others. We had our dock <br />donated and the installation and removal of the dock was also donated. Since July of 2015 the boat is <br />housed at Station 1. Before we had this boat, the Long Lake Fire Department used a 17' Lund Fishing <br />boat that was modified for our use. The Orono Lions donated the boat. It was always housed at Station <br />1 or the Fire Station on Park Ave. I decommissioned this boat for safety reasons and mechanical issues <br />back in 2010. We didn't purchased another boat for Long Lake since there are very few calls for <br />emergency service on this lake, in fact only one since 2008 where we needed the boat. <br />Our response time is much longer going out to Big Island and responding to lake emergencies since our <br />boat is no longer docked on Tanager Lake or Smiths Bay. Since July of 2006 to July of 2015, the Long <br />Lake Fire Department has responded to 66 calls for service where we had B11 in service or on scene. <br />Our average time to put the boat in service was 8 minutes and the average on scene response time was <br />13 minutes. We only arrived on scene 43 times. The remaining 23 times we were cancelled before <br />0 Page 2 <br />