Sylvania Township Fire Dept Resource Deployment

SYLVANIA FIRE DEPARTMENT - RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT

The Sylvania Township Fire Department (STFD) provides fire and emergency medical response from four fire stations strategically located throughout the community. Fire Station No. 1 is located at 6633 Monroe Street; Fire Station No. 2 is located at 3006 McCord Road; Fire Station No. 3 is located at 5056 Haddon Road, and Fire Station No. 4 is located at 8210 Sylvania Avenue.

Personnel staffing is maintained at a minimum of 14 on-duty personnel to deliver services to the residents and visitors of Sylvania Township and the City of Sylvania. Staffing is provided by career fire fighter/paramedics, and supplemented by part-time firefighter/EMTs. The career personnel work 24-hour on-duty and 48-hour off-duty shift rotation, utilizing a three platoon system. The part-time firefighter/EMTs are scheduled along with the career firefighters, and can work either a 12 or 24 hour shift. Each platoon begins their regular tour of duty at 0700 hours and work until 0700 hours the following day. During this tour of duty, the platoons respond to calls for service and accomplish numerous other activities including station maintenance, physical fitness training, job-related training, fire prevention inspections and public fire safety education.

The STFD operates three ALS Engine Companies, one ALS Truck company and a Lucas County Life Squad twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The companies at both Fire Station No. 3 and Fire Station No. 4 have the ability to cross-staff the engine or ladder truck assigned to their fire station; meaning that the on-duty crew can respond in the apparatus that will be most useful at the scene of the emergency.

Note: STFD provides the personnel staffing and ancillary support for Life Squad No. 6, stationed at Fire Station No. 1, through a contractual agreement with Lucas County.

Engines 61, 62 and 63

Three 2009 KME Pumping Engines have been placed in service as Engines 61, 62 and 63, and are located at the corresponding Fire Station location. These engines are designed with all of the latest safety features to meet the current DOT regulations, and are equipped with a full complement of firefighting equipment along with basic vehicle stabilization and hydraulic extrication tools as well as advanced life support (ALS) equipment. Our STFD Engines serve as the basic service delivery platform that enables our personnel to effectively operate as an “All Hazards” Department. The term, “All Hazards” is indicative of the level of training and equipment immediately available to safely and proficiently operate on emergency incident scenes to control fires, deliver ALS care on emergency medical calls, mitigate hazardous materials incidents and provide emergency response and support to both manmade and natural disasters.

Truck 64

A 2010 Seagrave Tractor-Drawn 100’ Aerial Ladder Truck has been placed in service as Truck 64, and operates full-time as a Truck Company at Fire Station No. 4. As is indicative with our engine apparatus, Truck 64 was designed with all of the latest safety features to meet the current DOT regulations, and is equipped with a full complement of firefighting equipment for fire ground service that is typical of truck companies – forcible entry, laddering, search and rescue, ventilation and fire suppression - as well as advanced life support (ALS) equipment. However, Truck 64 is also equipped with a full set of hydraulic cutting and spreading rescue tools, heavy duty air lifting bags, heavy duty stabilization struts, emergency lighting and various power saws for cutting, hand tools for prying and forcible entry.

Personnel staffing for Truck 64, along with all three Engines, utilizes a minimum of one Lieutenant (or a qualified Acting Lieutenant in their absence) and a minimum of two firefighter/paramedics. Supplemental staffing on any/all of these units is routinely provided through our Part-time Employee (PTE) program of firefighter-EMT personnel.

Lucas County Life Squad 6

Life Squad 6 is a 2010 Freightliner/McCoy-Miller Transport Unit that operates from Fire Station No. 1. The Sylvania Township Fire Department provides the minimum personnel staffing of two (2) firefighter-paramedics and ancillary support for Life Squad No. 6 through a contractual agreement with Lucas County as a part of the Lucas County Tiered EMS system.

Life Squad No. 6, as are all ten (10) Life Squads, are equipped with Cardiac Monitoring, advanced life support EMS supplies and IV medications to deliver the most advanced, progressive pre-hospital care in Lucas County