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City of Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department Lincoln/Lancaster County Mutual Aid Lancaster County Mutual Aid Newsletter | |
AUGUST 21, 2006
Meeting called to order at 2000 by President Densberger.
Roll call answered by Bennet, Crete, Eagle, Firth, Hallam, Lincoln, Malcolm Palmyra, Pleasant Dale, Raymond, Southeast, Southwest, Waverly, Valparaiso, Health Department, 911, Red Cross, and Emergency Management.
Minutes from the meeting at the Health Department read and approved.
Treasurer's report read and approved.
OLD BUSINESS
Dan Wright talked about contacting LFR Medic units. They would like to
be
contacted by radio on the appropriate channel on scene or enroute. Dan
would like to see a system wide protocol for communications with the
Medic
units. He also brought up supply exchange with the Medic units. They
would
like us to contact the driver when we exchange equipment so they know
what
is being exchanged. Doug thought the county air show drill went well
with
good information exchange between all involved. Hallam is having some
problems receiving on South. Their paging has been hit and miss also.
Ray
from the radio shop will have it looked into. Ron Erikson updated us on
the
fish kill in Salt Creek. They believe about 50 gallons of anhydrous was
spilled into the creek causing the fish kill.
NEW BUSINESS
The State Fire marshal's office has ordered some 800 MHZ portable
radios
and has asked permission to put in our frequencies. A motion was made
by
Southwest to let them do this. This was seconded by Firth. Passed
unanimously. Doug Ahlberg's new Administrative Assistant Patty attended
our
meeting. The bill for the audit of the Grants is on the County Boards
agenda for their meeting on 8/22/06. NEMA is now running the MMRS funds
They have frozen all the funds as of now. There will be a meeting in
the
Mayors office on 8/22/06 to try and resolve this. Doug should know by
the
end of August about the 2006 DHS funds. The nine departments getting
mobile
repeaters need to contact D & D about what frequencies you want in
them.
Doug is sending out a letter to each Mutual Aid department so they can
confirm they are NIMS compliant. These must be returned to Doug so you
can
be eligible for any grant money or benefits from it. These must be
returned
by September 16th. The 300 and 400 NIMS that must be taken by the
Chiefs
are not required until next September. Pat Borer from LFR will have a
train
the trainer class in September for these. A tiered response on county
all
calls was brought up for the County all call in the LEOP. Emergency
Management has just completed the 2007 LEOP and said it will be easy to
make changes to add this. All mutual aid departments will receive a
copy of
the LEOP.
People from the Health Department Air quality attended the meeting for a question and answer session. Seemed to be more than willing to work with us. Ray from the radio shop brought up the 800 MHz rebanding. They are working with D & D on this and nothing will happen until October at the earliest. Eric Rasmussen spoke about a couple of legislative things the NSVFA is looking at. One is to remove liability from donating equipment to another department and another is a potential tax rebate to Volunteer Firefighters. The NSVFA is looking at having an open house for legislators in the Lincoln area. The NSVFA convention is in York this year. Scott Zager from the Red Cross came and spoke about the services they have available.
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