American Legion Post 109(Silverdale)AO Terry Fassett and Volunteer Captain Val Quillwere both recognized during Monday’s BOCmeeting by the American Legion Post 109Commander, Russell Gerabek and his Adjutant,Michael Johnson, with commendations forOutstanding Public Service.

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 7CPR Class

North Perry Station 4510:00 AM - Noon

March 9BOC Meeting

Admin Building 4:00

March 12Stop the Bleed

Community Program Station 566:00 PM - 7:30 PM

March 17St. Patrick's Day

March 19CPR Class

Meadowdale Station 417:00 PM - 9:00 PM

CKFR WEEKLYCentral Kitsap Fire & Rescue

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This week in CKFR...

Nothing like clear blue sky in February topractice some Ladder Operations!  A-shiftCaptain Sullivan, FF Werlech and FF Monroeto the roof!

The 2020 CK Fitness Challenge has finishedand it was another great year ofcompetition. Congratulations to Rob Piersonon his second consecutive win!! He won withan outstanding 6401 points this year. Way toput out a great effort, Rob!  Also, congrats toMark Giannoble, Kara Putnam, Mac Holt,Gian Dalle, and Eric Chamberlain on someoutstanding work. A few competitors wereclose behind Rob, so that means next year itcould be anybody’s race!

Chief Oliver has the opportunity topresent to the Silverdale Chamber duringthe luncheon on Wednesday!

CKFRs A/O Crosby, PM Graham, and PMWright spent time with the kiddos at Mary

Bridge Children’s Hospital over the weekend. A big thank you to the Kitsap Quilter’s Guild

for their continuous donations of adorableanimals, each with a custom quilt, for

Crosby’s monthly hospital visits.

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Regular monthly tech rescue drill atBremerton Training Center. 20 people

form 7 agencies. 

CKFR had 7 members and R64, practicinghigh angle rope rescue techniques.

Rescues were performed from a patientlitter and single rescuer.

Name

Why you would like to be a TRT member

Resume or what attributes, knowledge,certifications and experience do you havethat would make you a good candidate forthe position

We are looking for one new technical rescueteam member. Captain Stebor has hung up his harness forgood and we will be filling his spot on the team.  If you are interested in this program pleasesubmit your email letter of interest to your BCand AC Christian with the followinginformation:

 Thank you for your Letters of interest.  Theywill be accepted through the end of the day onMarch 9, 2020. The hope is the selection will bemade at the March 12, BC meeting.

On Thursday,Firefighters from

Kitsap Fire FightersUnion, IAFF Local

2819 visited theBurn Unit atHarborview

Medical Center tosay hello and

spread positivevibes.

Local 2819 is made up of members from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue,Poulsbo Fire, and North Kitsap Fire and Rescue.

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Happy Birthday Tom!

A N E A R L Y B I R T H D A Y S U R P R I S E ,

C H E E S E C A K E A N D A B E T T A F I S H

N A M E D P H I L , F O R 5 1 A - S H I F T

C A P T A I N T O M S U L L I V A N .

Kitsap Firefighters Benevolent Fund

St. Patrick's Day Festivities

Success is noaccident...Finance Crew, Amy,Tammy and Heidi,recently attended aBias Rally in Spokaneto continue their greatwork in the FinanceDepartment.

Last Call for Nominations!!!!The Awards Committee will be

reviewing nominations onMarch 4th.

Submit you ballots before then!!Click Link: Recognition & Awards

Nomination Form

As many of you know, Central Kitsap Fire &Rescue is reaching out educate our communityabout challenges we have with our firestations. Specifically, they need to be improvedfor community safety and to provide ahealthier working environment for ourfirefighters.

I wanted to profile some of the morechallenging station issues here through CKFRWeekly. There are a lot of them, so I’ve decidedto break this information into multiplecommunications. For this edition I’m focusingon the seismic and location issues that wewant to improve. Our next edition will focus onsome of the challenges our facilities pose tofirefighter health and safety.

Fire Station Challengesby Chief Oliver

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Fault lines cover the Olympic Peninsula near where stations are located.

Seismic Issues

The fact is that all of the District’s stations arenot up to current seismic standards and are indanger of collapsing in the event of anearthquake. This would hamper the District’sefforts to reach you and your family during anemergency.

Many of our facilities are 60 years old, andhave cracks in the walls or on supportingbeams. They were built by volunteers, or at atime when there were no seismic standards.We are grateful for these contributions, but it’stime to upgrade and make them safer for thepublic and our firefighters.

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Location Stations 52 (Olympic View), 54 (Hintzville) and55 (Lake Tahuyeh) are located in areas awayfrom population centers. This delays responsetimes for emergency calls. The bond would replace Station 52 with a newfacility at Anderson Hill and Olympic View. Italso would combine stations 54 and 55 intoone facility at Coho Way and Seabeck Holly(Station 57) to better serve the LakeSymington area. Many of our stations were built before weknew where our population centers would be.We have a chance to fix that now with thisbond.

Station 52 is on a dead-end road. It has a large crack in its back wall due to soil and site erosion.

Conclusion Capital facilities are too expensive to fundthrough the District’s regular operating levies.The Board of Fire Commissioners is consideringasking voters to approve a bond to fund theseprojects.  The good news is that – even with the bond –the average homeowner would see a netdecrease of $24 per year in the taxes they pay tothe District compared to what they paid in 2019.This is because an excess levy has expired andan old bond for apparatus will be paid off beforethe new bond would take effect in 2021. I appreciate you taking time to learn more aboutthe challenges we are facing to provide service.Rest assured, we have a plan to fix these issuesand continue to provide you and your familywith the highest level of emergency servicespossible. As always, feel free to contact me withquestions at joliver@ckfr.org  or (360) 447-3566.Thank you.

News from the EMS Division! In anticipation to theupcoming changes in the County EMS protocols theDistrict, along with the Medic One Foundation, havepurchased three Zoll AutoPulse mechanical CPRdevices. On behalf of the District I would like to thankthe Medic One Foundation for their continuedsupport and dedication to the citizens and employeesof Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue. The CPR devicesare on their way and the EMS division is workingalongside the Training division to prepare trainingmaterial for this new piece of equipment. As always ifyou have questions please do not hesitate to contactme!

Medical Divisionby MO Chamberlain

Safety Committeeby Lt. Giannobile

Recently an issue was brought to the SafetyCommittee; the Decontamination of our Helmets andthe Removable Liners. Decontamination of ourstructural ensemble is mainly focused on our jacket,pants, and hood. Through the IAFF’s sponsored FASTtest we know that firefighter’s hair and brow lineshowed high exposure levels from contaminants. Weshould also include the decontamination of ourhelmets in our process. Some options we are lookinginto are a second set of helmet liners eitherindividually or a bank for the stations. In themeantime please take the time to protect yourselfand clean your helmet and liner while going off shiftwith the hope that it will be dry upon your return toduty. Attached is a link to a video from LION on howto perform this cleaning. Click on “AdvancedCleaning-Structural Helmets”https://www.lionfireacademy.com/training/nfpa-1851#