For several months we have been working towards outfitting the
property that we purchased at 188 Concord Street for the relocation of
the health department, public health clinic, and joint dispatch for
fire and police. Once this work is completed we will continue to seek
agreements with surrounding.communities to create a Regional Dispatch
Center. This will enable us to apply for significant grants from the
State to upgrade our public safety dispatch infrastructure.
In addition to the infrastructure improvements, DPW maintained 278
pieces of equipment including cars, light, medium and heavy trucks,
trailers, loaders and equipment. In addition to the DPW equipment, the
Fleet maintenance division assists numerous other city departments
with repairs and State Inspection services while also maintaining the
fueling facility for gasoline and diesel vehicles utilized by most
City divisions.
We set a new record for responses by the Fire Department in 2023.
There were over 14,000 emergency incidents where the response rate of
emergency personnel and equipment totaled almost 32,000. These
included EMS responses, along with multiple building, cooking, brush
and motor vehicle fires. The ability to respond to these incidents
couldn't happen without a robust department of first responders.
(think they are trying to say there were 14,000 incidents and since
multi vehicles respond to each incident - they had 32,000 vehicle
dispatches - for example - each medical call gets 1 fire truck and 1
ambulance - so 14,000 ems calls would be the same as 28,000 vehicle
'movements' - you now what I mean
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city council
Highlights from the 2024 Fiscal Year include: Approved of and
supported the Administration in the establishment of a regional 911
emergency communication district and approved entering into a Regional
Emergency Communication Center Agreement district between the City of
Framingham and the Town of Natick
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The Fire Department applied for and secured $126,409 in grant funds
from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) funded by the US DHS
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With these funds, the City
has obtained a mobile breathing-air compressor unit. This is a
trailer-based unit that is used to refill high-pressure firefighter
air packs (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus – SCBA) and dive
equipment air cylinders (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
– SCUBA). The trailer will be used at long-duration incidents to
refill spent air cylinders on-scene, rather than a time and staff
demanding task of transporting bottles back to a fire station for
refilling
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In FY'24, the Fire Department continued to partner with Brewster
Ambulance to provide ground ambulances services under a 3-year zero
cost contract. The City is provided with five ambulances and a field
supervisor operating at the highest level of EMT service - Advanced
Life Support (ALS). These resources are dedicated to the City around
the clock. A compliment to the Department is the fact that Framingham
is a desired system to work in as an EMT. Amongst our peers, we are
considered a professional, highly skilled public service organization
that is looked upon as a resource and model for others to follow. We
are proud to hold that reputation and assure it will continue.
(dang - thats sweet!)
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all of this info is from the 2024 city annual report - it has 288
pages and is a whopping 178 MB - ????? -
https://www.framinghamma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/54178/finalAR24updated
- maybe someone turned on the BLOAT option
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