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Lions Bay Fire Rescue - Summer Update |
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Written by Jason Cyr
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
First of all, Lions Bay Fire Rescue would like to thank the Whistler
Blackcomb foundation for awarding us a grant in the amount of $23,000
that will purchase new rope rescue kits, and extrication equipment.
The Whistler Blackcomb Foundation is dedicated to providing financial
support to registered non-profit organizations whose activities
provide benefit to residents of the Sea to Sky Corridor in the areas
of health, human services, education, recreation, arts and culture and
the environment with an emphasis on children, youth and family
programs. They have supported us in the past and we truly appreciate
their support again this year especially leading up to 2010.
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Now that the Olympics are on our door step it is making for a very
busy year for all members on the department and training is the order
of the day. So far this year we have re-certified all members as
licensed medical first responders (50 hour course), 12 Members have
competed the 16 hour Advanced auto-extrication course, 8 members have
been certified and ticketed as Emergency Vehicle Operators (62 Hour
course), and 3 members have been trained as trainers for s115 wildland
firefighting course which dealt with protecting structures in
evacuated communities. All this training and its only spring!
The rest of the year will see us covering off a comprehensive 52 hour
rope rescue course being taught in house; we will be doing a mass
casualty bus extrication course; we will be doing joint training with
Squamish and Whistler fire departments, and we have been asked by
Coast Guard to participate in a shared exercise with them. Of course
the department does not run on training alone so we will also be
working this year to bring a new fire by-law into effect, as well as
bring all department operating guidelines up to date.
Being in the center of the Sea to Sky corridor is getting us some
attention from other agencies who want to train with us, but we are
also gaining attention from the media and our firefighting peers, in
fact Firefighting in Canada magazine is looking to do a feature story
on us detailing how our very small department is able to maintain a
high level of training to face the diverse challenges in our district.
So needless to say it has been, and will continue to be a very busy
year for us. Call volumes are picking up and we have recently had a
serious head on collision just north of the village. We look forward
to what the summer brings and hope everyone in our village stays safe
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