The day to day operations of the Fire District are handled by our three Shift Captains (Trent Harper, Roger Means and Ken Dittemore). These Captains report to the Assistant Chief (Randy Mathis). Every full time employee has an area or areas they are responsible for. The employee is responsible for maintaining and improving these areas including budgeting. Employees report to work at 7:45am. The shift work time starts at 8:00am and ends at 11:00pm; the shift sleep time starts at 11:00pm and ends at 7:00am the next morning; From 7:00am until 8:00am is preparation time for the oncoming shift. The total shift time is 24 hours and 15 minutes.
Shannon Clobes Lieutenant - Risk Management - Fire run reports - Mapping
Tim Cook Library - Audio Visual Equipment - Medical run reports
Ken Dittemore Shift Captain "C" - Vehicle Maintenance
Nick Fortner Medical First Response - Medical supplies - Accountability - Infection Control
Jay Hammett Fire Hose
Tom Hall Facilities Officer (building and grounds)
Trent Harper Shift Captain "A" - Part time employee program - Public safety education
Roger Means Shift Captain "B" - Fire cause and origin
Mark Moore Lieutenant "C" - Employee uniforms
Mike Palmer Rescue and Extrication equipment
Chad Perry Pre-fire Planning
Greg Rethi Lieutenant "B" - Communications equipment
James Westmoreland Lieutenant "A" - Portable equipment - Hydrants
Daryl Workman SCBA - Protective clothing and equipment
In addition to these special assigned areas each shift has other assigned duties each day. The first thing every shift does is make sure all first out vehicles are checked and made ready for the upcoming day. The other vehicles that are not first out and the first out vehicles also have a weekly check performed. These weekly checks are more in depth than the daily checks. Paperwork is filled out and filed on each and every one of these checks.
After the vehicles are checked there are other station duties to be performed.
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Training: "Every day is a training day."
Last, but not least is running calls. These could be anything from helping someone back in bed, a child locked in a vehicle, traffic accidents, medical calls, fire alarms, false alarms, and fire calls. See the Emergency Calls page for more details.