From:           Chief Austin Stanphill

                                                  Summary of Activity

•   We responded to a total of 73 emergency and response calls.

   (Increase of 25 calls from previous month)

•   We had an average of 5 firefighters responding to each incident.

   (Increase of 1 from prior month)

•   We had an average response time of 5 min 10 seconds per call.

                (Decrease of 10 seconds per call from previous month)

•   We logged 12 hours of training

   (Decrease of 3 Hours from Prior month)

•   We accepted 2 new applications for Volunteer membership.

   (Decrease of 1 from prior month)

•    Average Volunteer Hours per Member: 38 Hours for September

          (Increase of 4 hours from previous month)

•   We had No Volunteer Members of the Fire Department Resign.

   (No Change from prior month)

                   Staff Levels at:   1 Full Time Paid Chief

                                               5 Part time Paid Firefighters

                                              35 Volunteer Fire Fighters

Response Statistics:

                                                    Type

      Fire / Rescue/ Haz-Mat:     6 (Increase of 2 calls from prior month)

 EMS:                                 59 (Increase of 23 calls from prior month)        

      False Alarms                       1 (Increase of 1 call from Prior Month)

      No Response to Calls:           0 (No Change from previous month)

Service Calls:                      7(No Change from prior Month)

 Total                                 73 Responses

    (Note:  Service calls include Controlled burn investigations)  

                                                District Areas

Granite Shoals:                  59 (Increase of 28 calls from Prior month)

County Area:                       9 (Decrease of 3 calls from Prior month)

Mutual Aid:                          3 (Increase of 2 calls from Prior month)

Highland Haven:                  2 (Decrease of 1 call from Prior month)

Total:                               73 Responses                                                                         

Green- improvement, Red- negative improvement, Blue-No Change

Training:

Tuesday night training centered on Medical First Responder Certification, Fire  Hydrant Maintence and Fire Report Writing

Advanced Fire training included, Auto Extrication Training, and Incident Command.

Apparatus and Equipment:

The Fire department Web-site is up and running for 1 year and we have received 128,000 hits on the site. www.GSFD.us

All Apparatus are in Service with no Major Repairs Needed at this Time.

Grants and Major Purchases and Projects:

The Economic Stimulus Grant for Fire Station Construction has opened and awarded over 160 million in grants. We did not get out $250,000 remodel grant and should get the Final letter in April. This was a very competitive one time Grant. The entire State of Texas only received about 100 of these grants.

The Federal Grant Process (FEMA) will open their Grant applications within the next few weeks. I have attended a Grant work shop that was in Leander and have gotten some good info on Federal Grant Writing

ESD News.

Insurance Billing is in the Works as a temporary funding Solution. This will probably show up in the 2^nd council meeting in april for a vote.

I will open discussions with Highland Haven on Forming an ESD in November sometime in March.

Auxiliary

The Fire auxiliary will soon be getting a bi-weekly donation from the Charity Bingo Program. This program also funds the Granite Shoals Chapter of the fraternal order of the Eagles. These Funds should be around $1500.00 per month.

Department News

The Fire Department has started our Annual Fire Hydrant, Paint, Test and Inspection program. All Fire Hydrants will be Painted to NFPA standards grass and tree limbs that obstruct the Hydrant will be trimmed  and all Hydrant will flow water for about 1 min each to determine Fire Flow and also to exercise moving parts.

Also you will notice that our Monthly report will be different next month. Mainly the changes will be to the graphs and some data that is on the reports. Hopefully this will make the monthly report easier to use and understand. We have switched our Fire Reporting Software to a more efficient Web-Based system, Hence the change in the appearance of the reports.

Thank you

Austin Stanphill Fire Chief

City of Granite Shoals Fire Department