Fire Watch (Spring 2007)

Publications Agreement No: 41203011

VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 1 | SPRING 2007

FIREHALL SHOWCASE: Fire Station 114

Publications Agreement No: 41203011

Update from your Executive Board

Where do you fit?Local 3888 Demographics

Annual PhysicalWhat you need to know

Spotlight on theMechanical Division

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5. President’s Message

9. Secretary Treasurer’s Message

13. Vice President’s Message

17. Chaplain’s Corner

18. Letters to the Editor

20. Local 3888 Demographics & TFS Statistics

25. Mandatory Retirement

26. Fire Fighter Survival and Rescue

29. From the Lawyer

32. Firehall Showcase – Station 114

34. Annual Physical

36. Fire Fighter Museums

39. Fit to Survive – Growing Threat: MRSA (Staph) Infections on the Rise

41. Line of Duty Death Profi les

43. Update from Your Executive Board

47. Collective Agreement Review

49. The 411 on Call Taking

50. Spotlight on the Mechanical Division

52. Making a Will

54. Workplace Privacy

56. 3888 Recent Happenings

59. Local 3888 Staff Profi le – Bill Radcliffe

61. Upcoming Events

62. Ad Index/Classifi eds

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FIRE WATCH (ISSN 1715-5134) is published quarterly by the TORONTO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS’ ASSOCIATION39 Commissioners Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5A 1A6 Tel.: 416.466.1167www.torontofi refi ghters.orgE-mail: fi rewatch@torontofi refi ghters.org

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEhat is the role of your Executive Board? Is to represent you in negotiations, labour and disciplinary issues? Is it to educate and make you aware of your rights and responsibilities as an employee under our contract?

WThe answer is simply, both.

While few would argue that the first role outlined above is a duty, it seems some take issue with the second role of educating and making members aware of their rights and responsibilities.

The last issue of Fire Watch seemed to set off that debate due to the inter-view with the Fire Chief. The recent switch to the traditional helmets seemed to bother others.

I think very few would take issue with the association outlining what your rights are under the collective agree-ment. We do this frequently; telling members what their entitlements are under benefits and keeping them abreast of changes to ensure they receive their negotiated benefits. However, a contract is between two parties and therefore, as much as each employee has the right to expect what they are entitled to under that contract, the same holds true for the employer. The employer has an expectation and right to demand that the employee will live up to their requirements and responsibilities under the collective agreement as well.

While it is not the role of the associa-tion to police or make sure that employ-ees are providing this to the employer, it certainly is the association’s duty to make sure the members understand the terms of the collective agreement and how those terms are being inter-preted and applied by arbitrators in labour proceedings.

The simple reason for making sure our members understand and adhere to the collective agreement is to protect

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[ ]THE SIMPLE REASON FOR MAKING SURE OUR MEMBERS UNDERSTAND AND ADHERE TO THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT IS TO PROTECT THEM. NO ONE WANTS TO BE FACING DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS DUE TO SOME ACTION THEY DID OR DID NOT DO, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT AWARE IT WAS AGAINST THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT.

them. No one wants to be facing disci-plinary proceedings due to some action they did or did not do, because they were not aware it was against the col-lective agreement. The best protection against this is to have members that are educated in the contract who do not put themselves in a position of liability in the first place.

We enter into agreements with the city and we would not ignore it if the city did not live up to their end of an agreement. By the same token we can hardly expect not to live up to our end of an agreement. The recent debate over keeping your old fire helmet was one such instance.

We entered into talks with the de-partment because our members wanted

the traditional helmets and saw it as a morale booster. We agreed to utilize our clothing points to offset the initial start up costs. The points used were discounted by the value to the city of having all new helmets. In the end, it was a cost neutral proposition to the department, although they would have to tender the new helmets and adminis-ter the change over.

Members then requested to keep their old helmets. The Fire Chief stated that they could not keep them and that the department was going to donate them to a third world country. Under city policy, the Fire Chief

cannot give equipment to our mem-bers. Taking a donation in lieu of the helmet would have constituted a pur-chase of the helmet and the city has strict protocols for that. Donating the helmets was something the Chief was allowed to do. Many of our members felt that they were somehow being wronged by not being allowed to keep their old helmets.

In my view, a small group of mem-bers did not want to live up to our end of the agreement and that is simply not acceptable if we are to retain our cred-ibility. The Fire Chief informed us that some had reported their helmets stolen and that these would be reported to

the police. Members need to know what the repercussions for their ac-tions could be if they do not live up to an agreement. Many disagreed with me making this view known to the membership. I believe I have a duty to inform you as to your responsibilities under an agreement and the repercus-sions of not living up to your end. That responsibility is every bit as important as making sure the employer lives up to their end of the agreement.

The interview with the Fire Chief also raised hackles with some mem-bers. Many did not like the Fire Chief’s answer on the current status of

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the 24-hour shift. For the last six months we have been telling members that these exact concerns were the concerns of the Fire Chief. Our stew-ards, as well as the mail we received, suggested members did not believe it and constantly we heard that the 24 was a “done deal”. Suddenly, it comes directly from the Fire Chief’s mouth and members act like he does not have the right to his opinion. Well he does and you have the right to yours. At the end of the day I believe we are all better off in knowing what people are thinking about an issue. It helps us coordinate our efforts to deal with those arguments and hopefully succeed in gaining support for our position.

Some members seem to prefer the “hear no evil” approach. While that

approach may make you happy and blissful in your ignorance, it hardly helps you deal with the problems we all face. Would you be happy if your child’s school teacher informed you everything was fine and dandy and then failed them at the end of the year? Hardly.

We as an Executive Board will con-tinue to provide the education and information that members need to hear: The good, the bad and the ugly. Rather than get defensive on an issue when someone takes an opposing point of view, we all need to listen and eval-uate that point of view. We all want to win people over to our point of view. You do that by evaluating their argu-ments, supplying information to coun-ter those arguments and show why your point of view makes more sense.

Digging in your heels and saying things like, “he has no right to say that in a union magazine” are not going to change the reality of the situation.

Fire Watch magazine was not creat-ed to massage and stroke you. Its goal was to bring information to you. Sometimes that information will be controversial and sometimes you won’t agree. Take the time and write us a letter, bring your opinions out, but in the end we will push to keep you informed, even when it is telling you the things you don’t want to hear.

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While I did not agree with some of the comments that were made, I did respect them and I believe learned from the overall experience. It also gave me an opportunity to refl ect and see if Fire Watch is meeting the goals that I, the Fire Watch Committee and the Executive Board originally set for it. The feedback was also useful in determining if the magazine was serv-ing a purpose for the membership. While it is diffi cult for me to determine that on my own, with input from the

Executive Board and the Stewards, I believe the question can be answered.

When we launched Fire Watch back in the fall of 2005 it was stated in my inaugural article, “I hope that with this continuing publication we will be able to communicate to the member-ship the reasons behind the actions/notices. Many social and fun things also happen within our Local and we have not had a good method to deliver that sort of information.” It was also stated in our introduction to the maga-zine article that, “It is the committee’s goal to offer a wide variety of interest-ing articles and reports that cover a vast array of topics in each and every issue. It is a major milestone for this Local and one that we hope will enhance the level of communications across the entire membership.”

I believe that Fire Watch has held true to the reasons behind its develop-ment. We are not interested in being

Frank Ramagnano

shocking, edgy or controversial. Our goal is to enhance communication to the membership. We would like to see this done in an interesting and appealing style. We would like to see education as a part of the communicat-ing process. With that in mind, there will be times that some members may not agree with the message being de-livered, even if it is in fact the reality.

In preparing for each issue, we ask our various association committees for their input into articles. The grievance

committee has the best handle on trends and patterns of problems our members are facing or may face. They noted a new trend recently, that being the lack of understanding by our members surrounding sick notes. Thus they approached OUR solicitor and expert in that area for an article. The goal of the article was to educate and be proactive in preventing members from getting themselves in trouble. Perhaps we should have included a disclaimer at the beginning of the arti-cle to express that. It is something that we will consider for similar articles in the future. I find it strange however, that members would dispute or want to argue the advice of our solicitor who routinely argues these cases and fol-lows the decisions surrounding them.

It was this particular article, as well as the Chief’s comments in the inter-view article, that lead some members to nickname this issue of Fire Watch,

“Sick Watch.” I take some offence to that comment. The articles were done independent of each other and the edi-torial team did not know what the grievance committee was working on until it was completed. We established some time ago that it would be appeal-ing to interview various people for interest articles. The Fire Chief was at the top of the list. We circulated e-mails and spoke to many members about what questions they would like to

[ ]WHEN WE LAUNCHED FIRE WATCH BACK IN THE FALL OF 2005 IT WAS STATED IN MY INAUGURAL ARTICLE: “I HOPE THAT WITH THIS CONTINUING PUBLICATION WE WILL BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE MEMBERSHIP THE REASONS BEHIND THE ACTIONS/NOTICES.”

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Frank Ramagnano Secretary - Treasurer, Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association I.A.F.F. Local 3888

have asked. The number one response was to solicit the Chief’s comments and opinions on the 24-hour shift. I know that our President and the Exec-utive Board have communicated with notices, union meetings and our Web-site on the topic. We have also used the Stewards to communicate the status of the shift. The Stewards have comment-ed to us that when the subject is raised, quite often they hear, “Yes we know that but what is the city thinking?” Thus the question was raised to offer the other perspective. It was not asked

to give the Chief a soap box or to threaten the membership. The Chief was told that the question is of impor-tance to the membership and a detailed response would be appreciated. He did that and with the value we saw in it for education on the subject we printed it.

We have also heard from members that they believe that we would not print a critical or negative letter to the editor. I would like to explain and clear that up as we have not previously re-ceived such letters. We want to hear the membership’s comments and what they

like or do not like about the magazine. After all, it IS the membership’s maga-zine and if you have comments or ideas you would like to share with your fellow members then please forward them. I can assure you that all will be looked at and given due consideration.

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VICE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

During this past year, our Association, along with Toronto Fire Services Ad-ministration, have been working dili-gently and co-operatively and have be-gun to move this file along in the right direction. Local 3888 wanted the fleet budget to be set at $7.2 million, for the year 2007. The department requested the sum of $6.6 million, which includes the purchase of front-line apparatus and light vehicles. The City is attempt-ing to reduce this amount to $6.1 million. The TFS was encouraged by the City to find additional savings elsewhere in their budget, including staffing. A reduction in staffing is certainly not acceptable to the Associa-tion. We began lobbying for new apparatus in 2004 and have impressed upon our Councillors that our figure of $7.2 million per year to continually update our fleet is one that we have researched and have faith in.

My participation in apparatus acqui-sition has taught me that there is a considerable time period between when money is allocated by Council and when we actually see additional apparatus in the fire stations. After a budget is passed, the specifications are drawn up, a tendering process takes place and finally the new vehicles must be built and delivered. This could take at least one year to complete. Thus, apparatus arriving in one calendar are likely part of the budget process of an earlier year. In any event, by the end of 2007, we should physically see the addition of twenty-five new pumpers,

n the Spring 2006 issue of Fire Watch, I reported that fleet apparatus and portable radios were a priority for me and now, one year later, it is time to update you with regards to the considerable progress that has been made.

IEd Kennedy

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five aerials, one platform, seven district chief vans and one new command vehicle. I would like to commend the TFS representatives, along with our Government Relations and Firepac Committees for taking this issue seri-ously and for positively and consistently supporting these additional vehicles.

Our progress in attaining new appara-tus is in no small part due to a Fire Underwriters Survey that collected data from ten of the largest fire departments in Canada. They rate departments on a scale of one to ten, with one being the highest level of public fire protection and ten representing the absence of any

effective public fire protection. The City of Toronto is currently rated at a three but is in peril of dropping to a four. The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal is also concerned that any reduction in staffing or vehicle strength could affect Toronto’s responsibilities under the Fire Protection and Preven-tion Act. The acquisition of the new trucks anticipated in 2007 should go a long way to ensuring that we do not slip and may improve our Fire Underwriters rating. Also, the Fire Underwriters recommend that frontline apparatus be no more than twelve years old and may be used after the twelve year period for another three years as spares. As noted

in my earlier column, it is important to restate again that if Toronto was to regress to a rating of four, commercial and industrial insurance rates in the city could increase by up to 12-15%.

Currently, our fleet consists of one hundred and thirty-seven apparatus housed in eighty-one stations across the city. Using the Fire Underwriters rec-ommendations, twenty-two apparatus (16% of the fleet) should only be used as spares and another twenty-two are of an age where they should be taken out

of service altogether. Of the twenty-eight spare apparatus that the TFS has, only three are within the Fire Under-writers guidelines. I believe that if the City adopted our figure of $7.2 million we would achieve our goal of address-ing the health and safety concerns of both the citizens of Toronto and the membership of Local 3888.

With regards to portable radios, we continue to be on target to attain our objective to have four radios on each front line apparatus by the end of 2007. In 2006, the TFS purchased eighty-five new portable radios and by the end of this year, eighty to ninety additional radios will be put into service. This

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333 A/L 2004 Freightliner/Dependable333 P 1998 Am La France/Fort Garry333 T 2006 E-One334 P 1991 Spartan335 P 2006 Ford/Dependable

335 PB 1997 E-One/E-One Teleboom341 A 1995 E-One/Superior341 R 1997 Volvo/Superior342 P 2004 Spartan/Smeal343 P 2005 Spartan/Seagrave

344 P 1991 Spartan/3D345 A 2002 Spartan/Smeal345 R 2002 Spartan/Smeal411 A 1994 E-One/Superior411 R 1994 E-One/Superior412 R 2002 Spartan/Smeal413 P 1993 Duplex/Anderson413 R 2002 Spartan/Smeal415 P 2002 Spartan/Smeal415 PL 1997 E-One/Superior421 A 2002 Spartan/Smeal

421 A/L 1999 GMC/Almonte421 R 2001 Spartan/Almonte422 P 1992 Spartan Gladiator423 A 2006 Spartan/Smeal423 R 2000 Spartan/Almonte424 P 1993 Spartan/Smeal425 R 2002 Spartan/Smeal426 A 2004 Spartan/Smeal426 P 2005 Spartan/Seagrave426 R 1997 Freightliner/Fort Garry431 P 1993 Duplex/Anderson432 P 1992 Spartan Gladiator/3D432 PL 1988 E-One433 A 1999 Spartan/Smeal433 P 2005 Spartan/Seagrave434 R 1998 Am La France/General435 R 2000 Spartan/Almonte441 A 2002 Spartan/Smeal441 R 2001 Spartan/Almonte442 P 2004 Spartan/Smeal443 P 1993 Duplex/Anderson444 R 1998 Am La France/General445 P 2002 Spartan/Smeal445 S 2004 Spartan/Seagrave

COM 10 1994 Fleetwood 32/HFLCOM 30 1992 International/Dependable

Decon 145 1998 Chev Step Van/PK Welding

HAZ 145 1989 Mack/DependableHAZ 332 2005 Spartan/Seagrave

HAZ S 234 1991 Ford - Box TruckHAZ S 442 1992 Ford F. Super DutyTRS-235 1987 International/Dependable

Tanker 212 2005 Freightliner/Dependable

Age of the Current FleetAPPARATUS YEAR CAB & CHASSIS MANUFAC. APPARATUS YEAR CAB & CHASSIS MANUFAC.


Vice President’s Message ... Continued from page 13

year’s complement is still subject to budget approval, which I am confident will be forthcoming.

As you can see, things are certainly improving in the area of fleet apparatus and portable radios. The TFS adminis-tration has been helpful and many members of Council are sympathetic and supportive of our concerns. This is

due, in large measure, to our very successful political action campaign which has ensured that the city’s politicians who are elected will give us a fair hearing when we approach them with our ideas and solutions. I would therefore, encourage the membership to continue their active support for political action. It is important and it

works to our advantage, as well as the citizens of the City of Toronto.

Ed Kennedy Vice-President, Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ AssociationI.A.F.F. Local 3888

# of Vehicles

Budget Year New Truck(s) Builder Chassis/

Body Status

10 2005 Pumpers Spartan/Seagrave

Awarded to Seagrave Fire. Performed a preconstruction meeting in April. All 10 Chassis have been inspected and are in various stages of being delivered to the body builder. Finished truck delivery expected to begin mid 2007. These trucks have all been ordered as dedicated Pumpers, no foam systems.

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Awarded to Smeal Fire. The trucks were purchased as a three year contract for a total of five trucks. The five cab & chassis have been inspected and delivered to Smeal for completion. The first pre-paint body inspections are scheduled for March 21st. Finished truck delivery expected to begin mid 2007.

1 2006Command

VehiclePK Van Bodies Lt.

The contract has been awarded, and a pre-construction meeting held to confirm details. Delivery expected a maximum 300 days following the issue of a purchase order. Currently waiting for the chassis delivery from the builder, Morgan Olson.

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7 2006District Chief

vansDonway Ford

The FIT Committee was consulted prior to writing the specification, in the interest of redesigning the “Command” portion to accommodate the ability to carry passengers. The seven vans have been delivered. The contract for the interior conversion & emergency lighting bid has been awarded and the work is in progress. Finished unit delivery is expected to begin end of March.

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2007Pumpers Spartan/Smeal

The contract has been awarded to Smeal Fire Apparatus. A pre-construction meeting was held Novemeber 15th. The first five chassis have been inspected, with the finished truck deliveries begining in the fall. All of these trucks will be equipped with on-board “B” Foam systems.

1 2006 Platform Aerial Spartan/Smeal

The bid closed October 17th with only one response. The bid from Smeal Fire has been analysed and was recommended. The finished truck is expected no longer than 330 calendar days following issuance of a purchase order. The pre-construction meeting will be held March 22nd, however the major components are already on order.

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A recent conversation with a member of the TFS highlighted the confusion about the role of a Chaplain. In trying to understand what I do, he asked me what I look for or listen for when trying to offer support and care for the members of the TFS.

CHAPLAIN’S CORNERBy Dr. Barry Parker – South Command Chaplain

Dr. Barry Parker

Dr. Barry Parker 227 Bloor Street EastToronto, Ontario M4W 1C8

416.961.8116 (church)[email protected]

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I responded that I listen for character issues. Yes, we dial into spiritual things, faith is a part of who we are but it is often identified through the character of a person. Through the years I have seen people, marriages, families and jobs break down or thrive, all as a re-sult of character issues. For example, a good crew—whether on a Pumper, in Communications or at Headquarters—is all dependent on character.

Character; who we are when no one is looking. It is the sum of my behav-iours, public and private, arranged across the spectrum of my life. This is not the same as reputation—what oth-er people think of us—nor is character the same as success or achievement.

Character is not what we have done but who we are. The evidence of char-acter is seen in our behaviours. It is really a mosaic, a composite of who we are. We speak about character with descriptors such as courage, discipline, vision, endurance, compassion, and self-sacrifice. We also describe charac-ter in many different ways: bad, good, weak, sturdy, dark, sterling. In other words, a person of integrity is “what you see on the outside is what you see on the inside” and vice versa. Words such as authenticity and transparency are often used around the character for

the person who lives what they believe. It is action that is aligned with how we think. Most of us want to hang around folks with healthy character.

Our understanding of character is derived from a Greek word describing a marking or engraving instrument. This is the idea of an artist wearing a groove on a metal plate by repeatedly etching in the same place with a sharp tool. A series of little marks eventually add up to a major channel in the met-al. My character is forged as a set of distinctive marks, one piled upon an-other, that, when taken together, show who I really am. Individually, elements of my character and the de-cisions I make perhaps aren’t earth shattering but add them up and who I am is what you get.

Character and behaviour are linked together but they are not the same thing. Behaviour is what I do, one ac-tion at a time. Character is the sum of all my behavioural decisions—both public and private, arranged as patterns across the entire spectrum of my life. Any decision, thought or behaviourduplicated and replicated, forms a part of my character. Repeated decisions, thinking, and behaviours wear a series of grooves which when put together, form a portrait of my character.

I have control over my character be-cause character is built over time, com-ing in bits and pieces, not as a complete package. Building character is a day-by-day, lifetime commitment. We cannot grow character from an infomercial or a weekend seminar. That is because char-acter is tested over time. Our culture is enamoured with leadership when it should be concerned with character.

So what does all this mean? As Chaplains, we are concerned with who you are, not what you do, or how suc-cessful you think you are or should be. We believe that healthy character is a God-given gift. As the saying goes, ‘God don’t make no junk’ and that includes character. Your Chaplains are there to serve, dealing in the currency of character. Nothing more and certainly nothing less.

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ARTICLES APPRECIATEDPlease accept my most sincere appreciation for your most excellent and informative issue. I speak particularly to the ‘Never Shall We Forget’ article as historical events interest me to no end and the ‘Collective Agreement Review’.

Of all the reading and re-reading I’ve done of all the various documents, on and off line, booklets, pamphlets and mailings, yours regarding our benefi ts was the most clear, concise, comprehensive and, most of all, understandable.

As a NUG (newbie for the last three years), I’ve not quite gotten the vernacular and details committed to memory yet. That document of yours will be placed in my ‘Important Files’ along with my marriage certifi cate, insurance policies and the like.

Thank you so much. If only our payroll statements were as clear, accurate and up-to-date. Wishful (hopeful) thinking. Maybe.

Brother Patrick ForbesWhitby, ON

PROPAGANDA MACHINEI enjoy reading our 3888 Fire Watch Maga-zine, and have found the articles very in-formative and uplifting. While I understand that this magazine is a tool to promote communications with the members of 3888, I do not believe it is the best venue for certain topics. I am speaking of your interview with the Fire Chief and the article ‘From the Lawyers’. Both the Fire Chief and the Union have publications for job related information and rules and regulations.

I read this magazine in my house on my spare time. It is not a job related document and I don’t want it to become one. I’m thrilled that we Firefi ghters have so many great people doing such great and caring things. Your magazine should continue to promote our proud history by printing in-formative and interesting articles about the Fire Service. While I believe that you have a responsibility to inform the members of issues that are of importance to us. I don’t

believe you have a mandate to use the magazine as a fear creator or a propaganda machine. Telling us what managements rights are, as they pertain to the demand-ing of sick notes doesn’t belong in our pub-lication and comes across as pandering to management. Allowing the Fire Chief to express his views on the 24 hour shift was very disturbing. The Fire Chief has plenty of ways to get a message out to our mem-bers, such as his Advisories and Memos or his Bi-monthly message. I have no problem with the Chief being interviewed by F/W, as I was actually very curious to read the article. When I was fi nished I was very up-set. The Chief could have been asked any question F/W wanted. It’s curious that you chose that one. Again you give the ap-pearance of doing management’s bidding. I don’t believe that the union is a puppet of management, but you can’t tell me that

there wasn’t a less provocative question that could have been asked. Unfortunately by asking that question you gave the Chief an opportunity to give an answer that came across as threatening and intimidating. I don’t want management expressing their views in our magazine, they can get their own. To paraphrase the chief “Maybe that is not what the Chief wants to hear, but it is the truth”.

I’m sure that F/W can keep its topics rel-evant and uplifting while at the same time being informative about our great job. Tom Mundy

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORKI would like to say congratulations to Local 3888 and Marla Friebe for the great article

FIRE WATCH accepts Letters to the Editor, articles, essays, and photographs from Local 3888 Members, active and retired. We will also accept fi re related submissions from outside authors or photographers.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MAY BE FORWARDED TO:Letter to the EditorFIRE WATCH39 Commissioners StreetToronto, OntarioCanadaM5A 1A6

LETTERS POLICYYou may email your letter to:fi rewatch@torontofi refi ghters.org

FIRE WATCH welcomes letters to the editor to give you – Local 3888 members – an opportunity to express your views, concerns, ideas, or gripes.

We can’t print every letter and in some instances letters will have to be edited due to space limitations.

We do not accept attachments. Please paste your letter into the body of your email and use the subject line “Letter to the Editor.”

ARTICLESBefore sending a full article submission, we suggest that you forward an outline or suggestion for an article to the Editor. FIRE WATCH is your magazine, and as such, we will accept articles on any subject related to Local 3888 and the fi re community. Subjects could include but are not limited to: health issues, history, sporting events, equipment, training issues, personal essays, etc.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS/QUERIES MAY BE FORWARDED TO:ArticlesFIRE WATCH39 Commissioners StreetToronto, OntarioCanada M5A 1A6

You may email your submission/query to fi rewatch@torontofi refi ghters.orgWe do not accept attachments. Forward your suggestion in the body of an email and use the subject line “Article submission or query”.

PHOTOGRAPHYPlease contact the Editors before forwarding your photographic work for consideration.

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on the history of ‘The Toronto Fire Fighters War Vets Associations and Colour Guard’.

Once again on behalf off all the mem-bers and the colour guard Thank You again. Keep up the great work. It is a really great magazine.

Warren Riddell, PresidentTFFWVA

PIPES AND DRUMSAs a Fire Captain, who retired last month, I was devastated by the tragic deaths of Captains Nichols and Lessard.

I knew both men and respected them for their dedication and sincere love for their chosen profession.

I’m sending you this message, but I’m sure I speak on behalf of all Winnipeg fi refi ghters, active and retired, when I say Thank You, to your wonderful band for being part of the memorial service and attending to pay your respects to our Fallen Heroes.

I must tell you that my Dad played the bass drum for many years, in the Shrine

Drum and Bugle Corps. When I heard your bass drum starting the beat at the beginning of each piece, I had chills up my back and it brought back many great memories.

The members of the Toronto Fire Services Pipes and Drums are amazing ambassadors of your city. Be very proud!!

Once again, Thank You,

Brent Jervis, Captain, Reg. # 865 (retired)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORTI received a cheque in the mail from 3888 made payable to me. I assume that it was issued because of my wife’s illness.

I want to thank you and the members for this, and all the support and kind words my family and I have gotten during this diffi cult time in our life. Its nice to know that the boys at work have got my back.

Todd Coe, P222 (C)

on the history of ‘The Toronto Fire Fighters

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Note: Based on approved positions as refl ected in the approved organizational chart.

*Includes Administrative Assistant at Dr. Forman’s Offi ce

&&&DemographicsSTATISTICS&&

Toronto Fire Services Staff Complement By Rank (As of February 2007)

Division Firefi ghters Captains District Chiefs Management/ Total

Excluded Staff/

Local 79

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Public Education 98 26 5 3 132

Communications 60 9 4 2 75

Staff Services 7 7 2 6 22

Information and

Communication Systems 8 3 2 3 16

Mechanical Maintenance 31 7 2 3 43

Professional Development

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Health and Safety 3 1 3

Operations 2,172 529 65 24 2,790

Senior Management Offi ces 14* 14

TOTAL 2,376 621 87 59 3,143

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Demographics Pumpers/Rescue Pumpers

1 P332 4685 4995 6.62%2 P314 4672 4225 -9.57%3 R325 4337 3943 -9.08%4 P331 3113 3469 11.44%5 P313 3678 3427 -6.82%6 P142 3392 3301 -2.68%7 P312 3486 3274 -6.08%8 P325 3393 3229 -4.83%9 R426 3185 3168 -0.53%10 R231 3289 3093 -5.96%11 P315 3247 3070 -5.45%12 P132 3126 3060 -2.11%13 P333 3080 3058 -0.71%14 P442 3030 3019 -0.36%15 P114 2790 2996 7.38%16 P223 2992 2853 -4.65%17 R134 2782 2778 -0.14%18 R112 2879 2747 -4.58%19 R133 2943 2713 -7.82%20 P232 2660 2677 0.64%21 P222 2546 2644 3.85%22 P443 2551 2629 3.06%23 R421 2747 2619 -4.66%24 P344 2707 2608 -3.66%25 R341 2647 2583 -2.42%26 R345 2613 2529 -3.21%27 P146 2518 2483 -1.39%28 R122 2206 2447 10.92%29 R441 2471 2415 -2.27%30 P226 2177 2408 10.61%31 R413 2539 2399 -5.51%32 R115 2496 2390 -4.25%33 P322 2439 2390 -2.01%34 P415 2397 2386 -0.46%35 P141 2542 2329 -8.38%36 R225 2443 2312 -5.36%37 P244 2433 2312 -4.97%38 P445 2441 2308 -5.45%39 P433 2140 2303 7.62%40 P234 2308 2282 -1.13%41 P135 2200 2277 3.50%42 P113 2312 2265 -2.03%43 P143 2438 2230 -8.53%44 P311 2216 2216 0.00%

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1 A142 2620 2398 -8.47%

2 A325 2318 2393 3.24%

3 A312 2462 2224 -9.67%

4 PL114 2442 2094 -14.25%

5 A231 1947 2062 5.91%

6 A315 1896 1806 -4.75%

7 T331 1923 1749 -9.05%

8 A131 1628 1696 4.18%

9 A133 1720 1687 -1.92%

10 A244 1482 1686 13.77%

11 A222 1641 1636 -0.30%

12 A113 1585 1501 -5.30%

13 T333 1877 1469 -21.74%

14 A426 1334 1415 6.07%

15 A213 1364 1365 0.07%

16 A322 1358 1345 -0.96%

17 A125 1294 1321 2.09%

18 A441 1315 1268 -3.57%

19 A421 1218 1267 4.02%

20 PL415 1353 1218 -9.98%

21 A226 1246 1153 -7.46%

22 PL432 1267 1125 -11.21%

23 A433 1149 1118 -2.70%

24 A311 1082 1103 1.94%

25 A345 1018 1051 3.24%

26 A324 1015 1008 -0.69%

27 A341 1002 995 -0.70%

28 A135 942 941 -0.11%

29 A423 893 865 -3.14%

30 A411 733 714 -2.59%

31 A215 654 530 -18.96%

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1 S313 3297 3141 -4.73%

2 S331 2925 2795 -4.44%

3 S143 2487 2371 -4.66%

4 S232 2338 2052 -12.23%

5 S445 1876 1651 -11.99%

Specialty and Support

1 HR332 3898 3945 1.21%

2 HZ332 783 995 27.08%

3 HZ145 704 750 6.53%

4 LA421 279 265 -5.02%

5 FB334 232 250 7.76%

6 LA333 273 238 -12.82%

7 CMD30 145 162 11.72%

8 LA231 150 154 2.67%

9 LA114 136 143 5.15%

10 CMD10 128 137 7.03%

11 DE145 13 16 23.08%

12 TRS235 N/A 5 N/A

13 HS234 6 3 -50.00%

14 HS442 3 1 -66.67%

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55 62 1972 21 55 62 1972 21 55 62 1972 21 56 64 Operations 1971 7 56 64 Operations 1971 7 56 64 Operations 1971 7 57 48 1970 9 57 48 1970 9 58 35 Captain Average Age 52.03 1969 6 58 35 Captain Average Age 52.03 1969 6 59 26 Captain Average Years of Service 27.26 1968 1 59 26 Captain Average Years of Service 27.26 1968 1 60 34 DC Average Age 56.97 1967 2 60 34 DC Average Age 56.97 1967 2 61 8 DC Average Years of Service 32.55 1966 1 61 8 DC Average Years of Service 32.55 1966 1 62 7 62 7 63 7 63 7 64 2 64 2

56 64 Operations 1971 7 56 64 Operations 1971 7 56 64 Operations 1971 7 57 48 1970 9 57 48 1970 9 57 48 1970 9 58 35 Captain Average Age 52.03 1969 6 58 35 Captain Average Age 52.03 1969 6 58 35 Captain Average Age 52.03 1969 6 59 26 Captain Average Years of Service 27.26 1968 1 59 26 Captain Average Years of Service 27.26 1968 1 59 26 Captain Average Years of Service 27.26 1968 1 60 34 DC Average Age 56.97 1967 2 60 34 DC Average Age 56.97 1967 2 60 34 DC Average Age 56.97 1967 2 61 8 DC Average Years of Service 32.55 1966 1 61 8 DC Average Years of Service 32.55 1966 1 61 8 DC Average Years of Service 32.55 1966 1 62 7 62 7 62 7 63 7 63 7 63 7 64 2 64 2 64 2

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North 32506 32354 -0.47%

East 32503 31796 -2.18%

South 39278 42444 8.06%

West 32802 32227 -1.75%

Total 137089 138821 1.01%

2006 Total Apparatus RunsCommand 2005 2006 % Change

North 72175 70513 -2.36%

East 62875 61130 -2.85%

South 102301 99625 -2.69%

West 66255 63392 -4.52%

Total 303606 294660 -3.04%

Salaries and Benefi ts 306,957.50

Materials and Supplies 10634.1

Equipment 1290.8

Services and Rents 6482.1

Contribution to Reserves 7778.4

Interdepartmental Charges 5829

Other -140.40

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1 C33 5342 5060 -5.28%

2 C31 4760 4197 -11.83%

3 C13 3134 3099 -1.12%

4 C14 2917 2683 -8.02%

5 C32 2665 2538 -4.77%

6 C34 2477 2468 -0.36%

7 C23 2501 2410 -3.64%

8 C41 2455 2220 -9.57%

9 C11 2376 2171 -8.63%

10 C12 2253 2094 -7.06%

11 C42 2280 2059 -9.69%

12 C22 2099 1952 -7.00%

13 C44 1795 1667 -7.13%

14 C24 1689 1546 -8.47%

15 C43 1542 1373 -10.96%

16 C21 1083 1066 -1.57%

17 C30 117 126 -7.69%

18 C40 107 104 -2.80%

19 C20 89 83 -6.74%

20 C10 71 83 16.90%

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– Déjà vu All Over Again?

MANDATORY RETIREMENT

Many issues within the fire ser-vice have come full circle over the years and it appears that

mandatory retirement will be another matter that will see history somewhat repeated.

The background respecting the law governing Mandatory Retirement in Ontario can be summed up in the following manner. On December 12, 2005 the Provincial government passed legislation that amended the Ontario Human Rights Code (the Code) regard-ing age discrimination. Prior to this amendment, the Code prevented an employer from age discrimination be-tween the ages of 18-65 except in those cases where a “bona fide occupational requirement” (BFOR) can be justified as determined under the Code.

The amendment to the Code elimi-nates the upper age limit of 65. The ef-fect of the government’s amendment was that employers could no longer force mandatory retirement based on age 65, however, the BFOR exception was con-tinued. The government provided a one year transition period to allow employ-ers and employees to prepare for a new world without mandatory retirement. On December 12, 2006 this amendment came into effect. Persons who turned 65 prior to that date could still be forced to retire and could not launch a claim of discrimination. Those who turned 65 on and after December 12, 2006 fell under the amended provisions of the Code and could not be forced to retire unless a BFOR was proven.

Ironically, while this legislation was positioned to eliminate discrimination based on age, it continues to allow for varying levels of benefits (i.e. life

insurance, health benefits) for workers surpassing age 65.

The history involving the OPFFA, our locals and mandatory retirement challenges dates back to the early 1980’s. In 1982 the Supreme Court of Canada held that the employer and association cannot ‘contract out’ of the Human Rights Code. This ruling re-versed an Ontario Human Rights Com-mission (OHRC) decision to uphold mandatory retirement for fire fighters as it was based solely on “impressionis-tic” evidence (witness testimony from members within the fire service). In 1986 the OHRC handed down another decision after reviewing multiple claims from across the province. The claimants included fire fighters, Lieu-tenants, Captains, Platoon Chief, and Deputy Chief. After the exhaustive and very expensive inquiry which reviewed both impressionistic and medical evidence the decision by the highly regarded Professor John McCamus determined that a BFOR was clearly established and mandatory retirement was upheld. Based on this decision, the majority of locals across Ontario negotiated mandatory retirement at age 60 in their contract.

Today, I believe some members have misinterpreted the government’s objec-tive in eliminating mandatory retire-ment and have asserted their intention to stay. Many may not be aware of the landmark decision from 1986 or the ex-istence of a BFOR. Has our job changed so significantly in the past 20 years to justify the elimination of mandatory retirement? It is my assertion that our job has become even more challenging. The physical toll of fighting fires, expo-

sure to thousands of toxins, combined with our expanded role within emer-gency response has heightened our con-cerns towards ensuring mandatory re-tirement is a standard provision within each collective agreement.

For decades, the OPFFA advocated for mandatory retirement to be applied to our members, and we continue to do so today. Given the nature of our profession, the expectation to perform under demanding circumstances, and the obvious physical and mental stress-es associated with our occupation makes mandatory retirement an obvi-ous pursuit. A reliable pension to sup-port early retirement has long been the goal of the OPFFA. Recent changes to OMERS as a result of Bill 206 are the realization of that goal.

Our legal counsel informed us that it is unlikely that a BFOR would be estab-lished for a person who would never be required to perform suppression activi-ties. Therefore our policy was amended during our last convention to reflect the following: That as a result of health and safety risks to fire fighters and to the community any employee of the fire service who may be called upon at any time to engage in fire fighter suppres-sion or training activities shall be required to retire at age sixty (60).

While the decision to retire is very personal the decision to establish a mandatory retirement is everything but personal. It has been based upon a solid foundation of medical evidence and an obvious concern for all members and the public. The OPFFA stands behind its pol-icy. Unfortunately, the desire of the few is forcing us to repeat the 1986 McCa-mus decision at great expense to us all.

BY FRED LEBLANC – OPFFA PRESIDENT

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BY TORONTO FIRE FIGHTERS GEOFF BOISSEAU and JOHN MCGILL

F I R E F I G H T E R

IN A JOINT EFFORT BETWEEN THE TORONTO FIRE SERVICES AND LOCAL 3888, A 24-HOUR FIRE FIGHTER SURVIVAL, RESCUE AND RIT PROGRAM HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO TRAIN TFS FIRE FIGHTERS TO HANDLE POSSIBLE FIRE GROUND EMERGENCIES. IN THIS ISSUE, WE WILL DISCUSS SOME OF THE KEY POINTS IN MANAGING THE AIR IN YOUR SCBA. THIS IS ANOTHER KEY ELEMENT IN HELPING TO REDUCE FIRE GROUND INJURIES AND LINE OF DUTY DEATHS.

The Fable: ‘I know it is time to leave when my low air alarm activates.’

The Facts:The air we carry on our backs has limi-tations. Those limitations are the same we learned as a recruit. Some of those limitations are the physical condition, emotional state, stress, familiarity and experience of the wearer.

As reported in a 2003 NFPA Report, ‘Fire Fighter Injuries in Structures’,

asphyxia/smoke inhalation accounted for 63% of fire fighter non-cardiac fatali-ties. Also asphyxia/smoke inhalation was the leading cause of severe injury. From 1993-2002, 86 fire fighters died from asphyxia inside structures.

In response to these trends, the USFA/FEMA National Fallen Fire Fighters Foun-dation developed sixteen Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives in March 2004 as an tattempt to reduce fire fighter Line of Duty Deaths by 25% within 5 Years and 50% within 10 Years. The Canadian Fall-en Firefighters Foundation adopted all sixteen initiatives. (http://www.cfff.ca)

The third initiative developed states-“Several areas were identified for special emphasis, including mayday and rapid intervention procedures, air management and preventing disorienta-tion in zero visibility conditions.”

WHAT IS AIR MANAGEMENT?Many fire fighters believe that the con-cept of air management only applies to them once they put their facepiece on and go ‘on air’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your individual air management starts as soon as you put your gear on the truck and do your SCBA inspection at the start of the shift. Knowing how to inspect your mask is a fundamental concept in managing your air. If you do not, or are unable to recognize when your SCBA isn’t operating properly, then your life has been put at unnecessary risk.

Once on air, fire fighters often sub-scribe to the concept that ‘when I get low on air, it is time to leave.’ Lets look at that philosophy for a minute. Is that really managing your air? Does a SCU-BA diver wait for a low air warning to return to the surface? Is it not true that both environments are equally hazard-ous, whether 60 feet down underwater or 60 feet deep into toxic smoke and superheated gases? Is a thirty minute cylinder really thirty minutes? If it

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The Fable and The Facts?

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took you ten minutes to get in on air and now you have been working for another ten minutes with an elevated heart rate and air consumption, do you still have ten minutes remaining in your cylinder to exit? We all know the answer but often we ignore it.

We performed an informal study to see how long a cylinder might actually last under a moderate workload. We had eleven Toronto Fire Services personnel, in full PPE and carrying a PAL PAK, walk up five stories, crawl, pull a weighted object forty feet down a hallway, pull the same object back down the hallway another forty feet, crawl again and exit down five stories on air.

Our test outcomes were as follows:

Average psi per minute: 382Average estimated total time of evolution: 3 min 54 sec Average estimated total pressure 1427 psiAverage estimated cylinder duration at this workload: 11.3 min

AIR MANAGEMENT AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVELEvery rescuer has a responsibility to every person at the emergency scene to not make matters worse.

Each of us has a unique physiological build. Therefore we each have our own

individual factors that directly affect our air use. It is up to YOU as an individual to understand these factors and control them. We need to know how our air consumption is related to workload or task. Waiting for our low air bell to ring before exiting is a dangerous practice and exposes us to unnecessary risk.

AIR MANAGEMENT AT THE STRATEGIC/TACTICAL LEVELFrom the strategic/tactical level, it is up to officers and incident commanders to identify and understand that air management needs are different for each incident. Tasks and work cycles need to be adjusted depending upon the incident. There is a huge difference in reasonable tasks and work cycles of a crew fighting a fire in a single storey residential dwelling versus a commercial highrise or underground garage. Both fire fighters and incident commanders need to be more conscious of exit and egress times required and how their specific tasks affect these.

So what should the goals of an Air Management program be?

1 Determine what is needed to maxi-mize safety in regards to managing

the SCBA air supply at all strategic levels (individual, task, tactical) and build these into the IMS system.

2Heighten individual awareness through increased training and

knowledge in air management (SCBA inspection, emergency procedures etc.).

As retired Phoenix Fire Chief Al Bruna-cini stated:“Our life expectancy inside a structure fire is limited to the air we carry on our backs.”


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The question often arises as to the right of employees to exercise their free speech or to make pub-

lic statements criticizing their employ-er. The answer may come as a surprise to many. While we have certainly moved beyond the repressive “master and servant” employment relationship, the protections for Association mem-bers to exercise free speech rights are largely confined to executive members and, for the sake of a consistent mes-sage, the president. Take the following scenario for example;

The administration has decided to unilaterally institute a new policy which has potential health and safety conse-quences for the bargaining unit. The members are mad and individuals want to give interviews to the media. The re-ality is that a large contingent of the bargaining unit does not have the right to openly criticise the employer. Doing so can lead to potential disciplinary con-sequences. It makes little difference if a member states that his/her comments are being made as a private citizen and not as a city employee. If the comments are related to the employment relation-ship, then a non-executive board mem-ber can still be subject to potential discipline for public comments.

Prior to the advent of modern labour legislation, the common law (judge made) rule was that employees owed almost complete fidelity (short of breaking the law) to their employer. The threat of immediate termination made it impossible to even consider criticizing the employer.

With the passing of progressive legis-lation, the rules for criticizing the em-ployer were dramatically altered as it

relates to Association officials. While non-executive board members still owe an obligation of faithfulness and respect towards the administration, Association executive board members and officials stand equal with the employer. As a result, arbitrators, labour boards and the courts have afforded wide latitude to Association officials in their defence of the membership’s interests. As was stated by an Ontario arbitrator:

If union [officials] are to have the freedom to dis-charge their responsibilities in an adversarial collective bar-gaining system, they must not be muzzled into quiet compla-cency by the threat of discipline at the hands of their employer. (Re Burns Meats Ltd. and Canadi-an Food & Allied Workers, Loc. P139 (1980), 26 L.A.C. (2d) 379)

This does not mean that there are no rules in place for the president or an executive board member engaging in public criticism of the employer. When criticiz-ing the employer or exercising free speech, Association officials will ordinarily be protected by law if three conditions are met:• they were acting in good faith;• their remarks were not malicious, reckless or patently untrue; and• their comments can be broadly linked to issues of concern to the

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In the scenario provided above, health and safe-ty concerns would cer-tainly fit that criteria, but again those public comments and criti-cisms need to be made by the Associ-ation official in

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his/her capacity as the Association offi-cial and not as a Toronto fire fighter.

In City of Nanaimo v. IAFF, Local 905, ((2002), 109 L.A.C. (4th) 408), the IAFF local president received a written warning after providing an interview with the city’s newspaper. The comments were:

[The] president of Local 905 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, says the union was misled by the city which proposed to ad-dress the problem of low staffing levels if the union accepted flexible schedules for the new fire fighters. “I’m pissed off,” Greves said. “They said over and over again, once they hired these flex fire fighters, things would change”.

The city argued that these comments breached the president’s duty of fidelity because he did not inquire into the cir-cumstances regarding the reduction in staffing prior to making the statement. In addition, the city alleged that the statement was an accusation that the city lied to the union. The union re-sponded that the comments were not accusations, but simply reflected how the president perceived the facts that gave rise to the issue.

The arbitrator granted the grievance. In his decision, the arbitrator stated that, although the president should have approached the city for an explanation prior to making a statement to the me-dia, he did not knowingly misstate the facts and was not reckless regarding whether or not his facts were correct. As well, the part of the statement the

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city considered to be an accusation that they were lying was really only the president’s mistaken assertion that the city had not kept their commitment. The Nanaimo situation would have turned out very differently had a fire fighter (who was not on the executive) made those same public comments.

Returning to the health and safety situation, if a member is of the opinion that administration actions pose a threat to the well being of the membership, the first call is not to the media, but to an Association official. The Association official can convey these concerns to the president who can make the determina-tion whether this is an appropriate occasion to speak to the media. In mak-ing those public statements, he does so as the president which provides him with the protection to make public state-ments without the threat of disciplinary action. As the above review indicates, the same can not be said for individual members who try and criticize the administration in a public setting.

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STATION 114STATION 114Toronto Fire Fighter JON LASIUK

oronto Fire Station 114, located at 12

Canterbury Place, protects an area that

has often been referred to as the heart

of North York. As with many outlying areas of the

present City of Toronto, this area was originally

protected by volunteer fi re fi ghters. The

Pioneer Garage, at 4890 Yonge Street, served

as the fi rst “fi re hall” in North York. A 1923

Ford Model “T” pumper was stored here, later

joined by a ’26 Reo. The mechanics in the garage

kept the rigs in working order, and also joined the

other volunteers to fi ght fi res when needed. With the

exception of several hand reels placed throughout

the township, these volunteers were the only

fi re protection afforded the more than 6,000

residents of North York.

T


year that North York opened their sec-ond fire station, at Lawrence Avenue and Bathurst Street.

The phenomenal growth that struck North York in the post-war years saw it transformed from a group of rural com-munities into a vibrant urban area. Fire Hall #1 on Yonge Street remained the anchor of an ever-growing department throughout these decades. Through all this time Fire Chief Ivan M. Nelson was in charge. This would change on July 16th, 1975 when Chief Nelson passed away. He had been made chief of the volunteer department in 1935 at the age of 22—the youngest fire chief in all of Canada at the time. To commemorate the Chief’s many years of service, #1 Hall was renamed the “Ivan M. Nelson Fire Station”.

By the 1980’s, North York’s Yonge Street strip was well on its way to being transformed into the business and en-tertainment centre that it is today. Developers desperately wanted the valu-able land that #1 Fire Hall sat on. As the building was more than forty years old and in need of renovation, the city decided to start over—with an entirely new fire station on nearby Canterbury Place. The large plot of land allowed for a much bigger building, with much expanded living and working areas. At the same time, the Toronto Department of Ambulance Services took advantage of the opportunity to move nearby ambulance station #22 into a separate two-bay portion on the south side of the building.

August 1989 saw the official opening of this new station, staffed with a pump and aerial platform. It was the second fire hall that the North York Fire Department had opened in two months, following the opening of #16 Hall, which had become operational on June 2nd.

Today, an historical plaque sits near the site of the 1942 hall, which was demolished soon after it was aban-doned. Only the original hose tower has been preserved to this day—a trib-ute to the early days of fire fighting in North York.

By 1940, development of housing tracks and commercial businesses in this previously rural area made it clear that a full-time, professional fire fight-ing force was needed. A plot of land was secured by the township at 5125 Yonge Street and architect Murray Brown was commissioned to construct a new fire hall. Built in a “Colonial Revival” style, the two storey hall consisted of two apparatus bays, with a combination clock and hose tower attached to the north. On January 1st, 1942 a full-time force of five fire fighters went on duty for the first time and moved into their new quarters. Fire fighters Charlie Prowse, Charles Dawson and Frank Bennett, along with Chief Ivan Nelson and Deputy Chief William Ballantyne, became the township’s first full-time fire fighters. A small volunteer contin-gent would be kept in reserve for a few more years until township council could be persuaded to hire more staff.

A phone room on the first floor re-ceived and dispatched all emergency calls for both this station and the Hum-ber Summit volunteers in the far west end of the township.

Throughout the war years, North York fire fighters found innovative ways to maintain fire protection in the face of wartime shortages. By 1943, the ’26 Reo was in desperate need of replace-ment. New apparatus weren’t readily available due to the war effort, so the fire fighters volunteered their off-duty hours to construct their own “new” pumper using a second-hand chassis and a used pump.

To contact apparatus while they were on the air in the far-off corners of the township, North York began to install mobile telephones in its rigs in 1949. These were some of the first fire appara-tus in all of Canada to be fitted with two-way communications.

By the 1950’s, the Yonge Street sta-tion was overcrowded. Plans were being drawn up for additional apparatus, in-cluding an aerial truck. To meet this need, a one-bay addition was construct-ed to the north of the original building. This addition opened in 1952, the same

Toronto Fire Fighter JON LASIUK

oronto Fire Station 114, located at 12

Canterbury Place, protects an area that

has often been referred to as the heart

of North York. As with many outlying areas of the

present City of Toronto, this area was originally

protected by volunteer fi re fi ghters. The

Pioneer Garage, at 4890 Yonge Street, served

as the fi rst “fi re hall” in North York. A 1923

Ford Model “T” pumper was stored here, later

joined by a ’26 Reo. The mechanics in the garage

kept the rigs in working order, and also joined the


exception of several hand reels placed throughout

the township, these volunteers were the only

fi re protection afforded the more than 6,000

residents of North York.

T

year that North York opened their sec-ond fire station, at Lawrence Avenue and Bathurst Street.

The phenomenal growth that struck North York in the post-war years saw it transformed from a group of rural com-munities into a vibrant urban area. Fire Hall #1 on Yonge Street remained the anchor of an ever-growing department throughout these decades. Through all this time Fire Chief Ivan M. Nelson was in charge. This would change on July 16th, 1975 when Chief Nelson passed away. He had been made chief of the volunteer department in 1935 at the age of 22—the youngest fire chief in all of Canada at the time. To commemorate the Chief’s many years of service, #1 Hall was renamed the “Ivan M. Nelson Fire Station”.

By the 1980’s, North York’s Yonge Street strip was well on its way to being transformed into the business and en-tertainment centre that it is today. Developers desperately wanted the valu-able land that #1 Fire Hall sat on. As the building was more than forty years old and in need of renovation, the city decided to start over—with an entirely new fire station on nearby Canterbury Place. The large plot of land allowed for a much bigger building, with much expanded living and working areas. At the same time, the Toronto Department of Ambulance Services took advantage of the opportunity to move nearby ambulance station #22 into a separate two-bay portion on the south side of the building.

August 1989 saw the official opening of this new station, staffed with a pump and aerial platform. It was the second fire hall that the North York Fire Department had opened in two months, following the opening of #16 Hall, which had become operational on June 2nd.

Today, an historical plaque sits near the site of the 1942 hall, which was demolished soon after it was aban-doned. Only the original hose tower has been preserved to this day—a trib-ute to the early days of fire fighting in North York.

By 1940, development of housing tracks and commercial businesses in this previously rural area made it clear that a full-time, professional fire fight-ing force was needed. A plot of land was secured by the township at 5125 Yonge Street and architect Murray Brown was commissioned to construct a new fire hall. Built in a “Colonial Revival” style, the two storey hall consisted of two apparatus bays, with a combination clock and hose tower attached to the north. On January 1st, 1942 a full-time force of five fire fighters went on duty for the first time and moved into their new quarters. Fire fighters Charlie Prowse, Charles Dawson and Frank Bennett, along with Chief Ivan Nelson and Deputy Chief William Ballantyne, became the township’s first full-time fire fighters. A small volunteer contin-gent would be kept in reserve for a few more years until township council could be persuaded to hire more staff.

A phone room on the first floor re-ceived and dispatched all emergency calls for both this station and the Hum-ber Summit volunteers in the far west end of the township.

Throughout the war years, North York fire fighters found innovative ways to maintain fire protection in the face of wartime shortages. By 1943, the ’26 Reo was in desperate need of replace-ment. New apparatus weren’t readily available due to the war effort, so the fire fighters volunteered their off-duty hours to construct their own “new” pumper using a second-hand chassis and a used pump.

To contact apparatus while they were on the air in the far-off corners of the township, North York began to install mobile telephones in its rigs in 1949. These were some of the first fire appara-tus in all of Canada to be fitted with two-way communications.

By the 1950’s, the Yonge Street sta-tion was overcrowded. Plans were being drawn up for additional apparatus, in-cluding an aerial truck. To meet this need, a one-bay addition was construct-ed to the north of the original building. This addition opened in 1952, the same


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PHYSICALANNUAL

PHYSICALANNUAL

PHYSICALPHYSICALANNUAL

PHYSICALE veryone should have an annual

physical examination. Too many people remain reluctant to visit the

doctor on a regular basis. Research into the medical/health check-up habits of men reveal some startling statistics, espe-cially when compared to women:• 7,000,000 men have not visited a doctor in 10 years (National Men’s Health Foundation USA);• 230,000 men are diagnosed with pros-tate cancer each year (National Prostate Cancer Coalition USA);• 90% of testicular cancer cases are treatable, if caught early enough(Canadian Cancer Society).

An annual check-up is the most effec-tive means as a fi rst line of defence and the easiest preventative step for all dis-eases. As part of the Health & Wellness Program, there are many components of the physical exam process. We will focus on the blood work that is recommended for fi re fi ghters by the IAFF and the IAFC as part of their Health and Wellness initia-tive. The following is the recommended procedures that our members should ini-tiate to establish a baseline for blood work to compare throughout their careers to check for the effects of exposures.

The following are components of the blood analysis. At a minimum, laboratory services must provide these components in their automated chemistry panel (aka SMAC 20) and complete blood count (CBC) protocols.• White blood cell count

(with differential)• Red blood cell count (hematocrit)• Platelet count• Liver function tests• Triglycerides• Glucose

• Blood urea nitrogen• Creatinine• Sodium• Potassium• Carbon dioxide• Total protein• Albumin• Calcium• CholesterolWhite Blood Cell Count • White blood cells are part of the body’s immunologic defenses. An elevated WBC count may suggest infection or infl ammatory dis-order. Excessive elevation or depression may also suggest malignancy. Low WBC counts may indicate collagen vascular dis-ease, immunosuppression, or infection.Differential • The differential gives a more specifi c indication of the disease process that has resulted in an abnormal WBC count. For example, excess eosino-phils may indicate a parasitic infection or allergic reaction; an increase in lympho-cytes may indicate a chronic infl amma-tory condition.Red Blood Cell Count (Hematocrit) • Red blood cells (or hematocrit) carry oxygen to the tissues. An abnormal number or size of these cells may indicate vari-ous anemias or other diseases such as malignancies.Platelet Count • Platelets are essential to the clotting function of the blood. Abnormally low platelet counts may indicate malignancy, drug reaction, or an immune disorder such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Abnor-mally high platelet counts may indicate a pre-malignant or malignant condition, acute blood loss, or splenectomy.Liver Function Tests • The follow-ing liver function tests are used primarily to detect and monitor

BY IAN HAMILTONLOCAL 3888 HEALTH & SAFETY CHAIR

liver disease. They are referred to as liver func-tion tests, but abnormal results could be caused by other medi-cal conditions or medical treatments. Unexplained abnormalities would require additional evaluation.• SGOT/AST: Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase or aspartate transaminase is elevated in hepatitis, acute myocardial infarction, acute heart infl ammation (myo-carditis), trauma to skeletal muscle, or medication use (e.g., aspirin or isoniazid).• SGPT/ALT: Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase or alanine transaminase is also elevated in liver disease. Typically alcoholism, hepatitis, trauma to skel-etal muscle, and use of medication (e.g., heparin) can cause ALT elevation.• LDH: Lactic dehydrogenase may be elevated in liver disease, malignancy, cute myocardial infarction, active lung disease, or trauma.• Alkaline Phosphatase: Alkaline phos-phatase is elevated in diseases involving the liver such as obstructive jaundice, and the bone, such as Paget’s disease.

Other diseases that demonstrate ele-vated alkaline phosphatase levels include sarcoidosis and malignancy.• Bilirubin: Bilirubin can be elevated in diseases of the liver, gallbladder, or hemopoetic system (e.g. hemolytic ane-mia). Bilirubin may also be elevated with dehydration (Gilbert’s Disease). When elevated, fractionated bilirubin measures can distinguish between GI and hemo-lytic sources.

Typically, triglyceride elevations are seen in primary hyperlipidemias and secondary hyperlipidemias due to dia-betes, acute alcoholism, gout or chronic renal failure. It is recommended that

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blood for triglycerides be drawn after a minimum three hour fast.Glucose • Glucose levels can be elevated in diabetes, acute pancreatitis, and use of certain drugs, such as diuretics. It is recommended that blood for glucose be drawn after a minimum three hour fast.Blood Urea Nitrogen • A measure of renal function, blood urea nitrogen is elevated in renal disease, dehydration, severe blood loss, and diarrhea. It is de-creased in pregnancy, liver disease, and malnutrition.Creatinine • Creatinine is used as a mea-sure of renal function. It is elevated in renal disease, dehydration, and very mus-cular individuals. It may be low in patients with small muscle mass.Sodium • Sodium is a major electrolyte in the body. Levels are high in dehydra-tion and kidney disease. Levels are low in chronic kidney disease, heart failure, liver cirrhosis, prolonged vomiting, and with profuse sweating.Potassium • Elevated in kidney failure, dehydration, and muscle necrosis. Potas-sium levels are low in vomiting, diarrhea, and malabsorption.Triglycerides • An indicator of the acid-base status of the patient, carbon dioxide is low in acidosis and high in alkalosis.Total Protein • Total protein levels are elevated in chronic infection, liver dis-ease, and dehydration. Levels are low in malabsorption, debilitating disease, and low albumin states.Albumin • Albumin is low in liver dis-ease, malabsorption, malnutrition, preg-nancy, and kidney disease. Albumin may be elevated in dehydration.Calcium • Calcium may be elevated in malignancy, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, or with the use of certain medications (e.g., diuretics and antacids). Calcium may be low in renal failure and acute pancre-atitis.Cholesterol Tests • Elevations in cho-lesterol must be evaluated. Detection of familial hyperlipidemias and early in-tervention may signifi cantly decrease morbidity and mortality from coronary artery disease. Cholesterol may be el-evated in pregnancy, kidney disease, oral contraceptive use, or estrogen replacement therapy. Liver disease,

malabsorption, malnutrition, or anemia may cause abnormally low cholesterol levels. Increased risk of ischemic heart disease has been associated with elevat-ed levels of the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) fraction. Conversely, higher levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) have been associated with a “protective effect.”

Traditionally, the total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio has been of some value, along with other risk factors (e.g., hyperten-sion, diabetes, previous MI, age, gender, smoking, family history), for assessing the risk of ischemic heart disease and the probability of a coronary event.• Total Cholesterol: Cholesterol belongs to a larger family of biological chemicals called lipids (fats). Because it is such a critically important substance, a complex “carrier” system has developed to move cholesterol through the entire body. This system consists of a number of proteins that bind to cholesterol and transport it to where it is needed. Cholesterol, a lipid, when bound together with one of these carrier proteins, is called a lipoprotein. Both total cholesterol and carrier pro-

teins can be measured in blood samples. When looking at total serum cholesterol levels, the risk of developing atheroscle-rotic coronary vascular disease increases as the total cholesterol level increases.• Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL-C) level: LDL-C is 45 % cholesterol by weight and is the major carrier of cholesterol to the body’s tissues. Since LDL can deliver too much cholesterol to the wrong places (like the heart arteries) resulting in cholesterol plaque buildup, people often refer to this as a “bad” cholesterol.• High Density Lipoprotein (HDL-C) level: HDL-C is 30 % cholesterol by weight and is involved in reverse transport of choles-terol away from body tissues and out of the body. HDL cholesterol removes ex-cess cholesterol from the arteries, help-ing to prevent the buildup of cholesterol plaques. Because this lipoprotein appears

to remove excess cholesterol, it is often referred to as the “good” cholesterol.• Total Cholesterol/HDL Ratio: The TC/HDL-C ratio gauges relative risk of car-diovascular disease. The importance of the protective effect of HDL cholesterol is emphasized by this ratio. The total cholesterol level may be within a nor-mal range but combined with low HDL cholesterol level, the ratio indicates the individual is at a higher risk than some-one with a normal total cholesterol and a normal HDL level.Heavy Metal & Special Exposure Screening • Baseline testing for heavy metals and special exposures may be assessed on the initial physical but is not required under the Initiative since the utility of such testing has not been medically established. However, evalua-tions must be done under special circum-stances, such as a hazardous materials exposure, following known exposure, for recurrent exposures or where required under federal, state, or provincial regula-tions (e.g. OSHA standards).• The urine screen assesses for exposure to arsenic, mercury and lead.

• The blood screen assesses for exposure to lead.• For specifi c exposures, other heavy metal screens include aluminum, anti-mony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel and zinc.• Special blood testing for organophos-phates (RBC cholinesterase) or other toxic exposures (e.g. blood screening for exposure to PCBs).

The other areas to look at are physical evaluation, body composition, vision test-ing, hearing evaluation, spirometry, EKG and cancer screening. For an explanation on these and the various components to a physical exam please visit the IAFF site and fi nd the report under the on-line li-brary tab. You may also send an email to hamilton@torontofi refi ghters.org and I will forward the chapter on Annual Physi-cal Exam electronically or in hard copy.

[ ]AN ANNUAL CHECK-UP IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS AS A FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE AND THE EASIEST PREVENTATIVE STEP FOR ALL DISEASES.

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There are very few professions that have the sense of pride and tradition that we experience in

the Fire Service. Everyday routines that have origins in the past are performed today in much the same

PROTECTING YESTERDAY FOR TOMORROWBY RODNEY JOHNSTON

FIRE WATCH COMMITTEE MEMBER

manner as they were 50 or more years ago. The sense of pride in doing a job well is a common trait in all fi re fi ghters. So too is the art of remembering history and passing traditions and values forward to

future generations of fi re fi ghters. This fact was obvious when I toured the various former Fire Departments’ museums and talked to the dedicated people that put huge amounts of time and energy into this endeavour.

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The fi rst museum I toured was the for-mer Scarborough Fire Fighters Museum. The museum is located at 351 Birchmount Rd, in what used to be Scarborough Fire Hall No.1. The building itself, while old, is meticulously maintained, and is in pristine condition. It used to serve two purposes; a fi re hall, and a precinct for the Scarbor-ough Police Department (complete with jail cells in the basement!) I met with Al Cousins who is a retired Scarborough Fire Fighter. Al has committed a great deal of energy to this operation. He showed me many interesting artifacts, including nu-merous photos, paraphernalia, newspaper clippings, old fi re trucks, as well as one of the earliest versions of the modern defi brillator. Tours are encouraged to call Al Cousins at (416) 338-9236.

Next up, I toured the museum located at Station 233 on Curlew Ave. It is a fairly large, modern building that is well laid out

and fi lled with memorabilia from North York, as well as from the current Toronto Fire Services. The various display showcases fi lled with hundreds of mementos, badges, tools, and regalia adorn the museum. There are old hose reels, extinguishers and also a vintage apparatus. Mannequins, uniforms and interactive displays make this an ideal destination for a family outing, or a class trip. You should plan on spending a couple of hours in order to take in all of the interesting sights.

Finally, some of the members from the former East York Fire Department have gathered some of the artifacts from their old Department. Dan Driscoll has gathered various newspaper clippings, plaques, and vintage pictures from East York. Some of these date back as far as the 1920’s. He encourages anybody with an article that they think is of interest, to contact him so he can add it to the growing collection.

Part of the future plans for the Toronto Fire Services includes putting a full size museum and public education centre in Station No. 334 on Queens’ Quay. Ac-cording to Debbie Higgins from HQ, the plans are already drawn up as an addi-tion to Station No. 334 and are awaiting funding approval from the waterfront development committee or funding from sponsorships and fundraising activities, to begin construction. The value of this project cannot be understated as a ma-jor tourist attraction, potential learning centre and a place of gathering for fi re fi ghters and their families.

I learned a lot from my visits to all of the museums. They are all excellent facilities where you can reconnect with the past, and refl ect on by-gone days. I encourage all members to get out and see these truly incredible showplaces of our proud history.

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SURVIVEFit to The fi re fi ghter’s guide to health and nutrition

Working out in the firehouse gym or join-ing a health club for your daily fitness

regimen is a great way to stay in shape and keep fit for the job. But beware—your work-out could put you at risk for unexpected ill-ness. Once isolated to hospitals and other health care settings, methicillin-resistant staphylococus—or MRSA— is increasingly finding its way into health club locker rooms, athletic training facilities and firehouses. These virulent and resilient—and sometimes deadly—staph infections are being reported in greater numbers among the general popula-tion as well.

Even before this more serious strain began spreading, staph has long been a health hazard for individuals who share locker rooms, towels, whirlpools, showers and other common areas. The bacteria is typically found in the nasal passages and on the skin of healthy people, but is potentially deadly when it enters the body through scratches and scrapes. Once inside, it can cause blood and joint infections—even pneumonia.

A study in 2006 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 59 percent of all skin infections in U.S. emer-gency rooms were caused by MRSA. Doctors and pharmacists report difficulty finding an antibiotic to fight it.

Most Staph infections occur in individuals with weakened immune systems—usually patients in hospitals and long-term care facili-ties. People who have been hospitalized or had surgery within the past year are at high risk for MRSA, as are those receiving certain treatments, such as dialysis.

Fire fighters need to be aware of the rise in MRSA among otherwise healthy people with no history of hospitalization in the last year as many such infections have occurred among athletes, who—like fire fighters—work in close quarters and share equipment or per-sonal items (such as towels or razors).

The infection most often appears in the skin and will look like a pimple, boil, abscess or spider bite. It may cause the skin to be red, swollen, painful, or have pus or other drain-age coming from it.

The best way to prevent a MRSA infection is to practice good hygiene.

Fit to Survive is your source for a healthier life, brought to you by the IAFF’s Fire Service Joint Labour Management Wellness/Fitness Initiative. You’ll find expert advice and practical information on staying fit and healthy, as well as recipes and nutrition tips to make your next firehouse meal wholesome and delicious. Articles reprinted in FireWatch have been taken from the IAFF’s Fit To Survive web site, which we encourage all members to visit regularly. It can be found at www.foodfit.com/iaff/.

Growing Threat: MRSA (Staph) Infections on the Rise

CHOCOLATE BUTTERMILK CUPCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE GLAZE

• Clean surfaces of exercise and sports equipment before and after use.

• Wear sports gloves when using gym equipment or use a towel or clothing to act as a barrier between exercise equipment and bare skin when visiting gyms or heath clubs.

• Keep hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

• Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed.

• Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages.

• Avoid sharing personal items such as towels or razors.

• Wear gardening gloves when working in the yard.

• Wear clothing with long sleeves and long pants to protect skin during activities likely to cause skin damage.

• Moisturize your skin with lotions to keep skin from cracking.

• Do not visit gyms or health clubs if skin lesions cannot be covered or wound drainage cannot be contained.

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12 paper cupcake liners11⁄ 4 cups cake flour1⁄ 3 cup cocoa powder3⁄ 4 teaspoon baking soda1⁄ 4 teaspoon salt3⁄ 4 cup sugar3⁄ 4 cup buttermilk, low-fat plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk, low-fat1⁄ 4 cup canola oil11⁄ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract4 ounces semisweet chocolate

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 12 muffi n tins with paper liners.

2. Sift the fl our, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Add the sugar, buttermilk, oil and vanilla and stir to combine (do not overmix).

3. Fill each baking cup 2/3 full. Bake until a skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Allow the cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the pan.

4. When the cupcakes are cool, melt the chocolate over a double boiler. Let the chocolate cool until it thickens slightly. Using a spoon, drizzle the cupcakes with the melted chocolate.

Makes 12 standard size cupcakes or 24 miniature cupcakes.

Serving Size: 1 cupcakeNumber of Servings: 12Calories 192 Carbohydrate 30 g Fat 8 g Fibre 1 g Protein 3 g Saturated Fat 2 g Sodium 147 mg

• Shower as soon as possible after exercise or athletic activities.

• Wash clothing and linens in hot water and detergent and dry in a hot dryer before others use them.

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Deputy Chief William CharltonJuly 10, 1866Toronto Fire Department

William Charlton became a member of the York Fire Brigade when it was first organized. He had been the deputy chief—or “assistant engineer,” as it was then known—since 1853. He was in this position when the volunteer brigade responded to the report of a structure fire in a block of wooden stores on the east side of Yonge Street

near Trinity Square, the present-day location of the Eaton Centre.

The fire was first spotted in the cel-lar windows of Thomas’ Tin Ware and Shipway’s Coal Oil Depot, around elev-en p.m. on Wednesday, July 4, 1866. Firefighters arrived promptly and un-der the direction of Deputy Charlton soon had the fire under control; but only after four stores were destroyed and several damaged. While supervis-ing overhaul and extin-guishment, Deputy Chief Charlton was standing beside the verandah of one of the stores

as crews were cutting away part of the damaged roof. Without warning the verandah roof collapsed and landed on top of the deputy. He was buried under heavy timbers but was rescued quickly by the firefighters near him and taken to his residence on Queen Street. At five a.m. on Tuesday, July 10, 1866, thirty-four-year-old William Charlton died from his injuries and now rests in Necropolis Cemetery.

William Charlton was the first chief officer to die in the line of duty in the province of Ontario.

* Re-printed with permission from the book Their Last Alarm by Robert B. Kirkpatrick.

James KiddSeptember 18, 1869Toronto Fire Department

Shortly before three a.m. on Friday, September 17, 1869, the wife of Henry Chaloner was awakened by the smell of smoke. The Chaloner family lived above the rear part of their dry goods store on Esther Street, which was on the north side of Queen Street just west of Deni-son Avenue. The small block of three buildings was made of wood and also contained a saloon and a grocery store, with families living above.

Mrs. Chaloner yelled “fire!” and her husband sprang out of bed into a smoke-filled room. Mr. Chaloner opened the window and jumped out, telling his wife to pass the children, who slept in the same room, to him. She threw out the baby into a storm-filled evening sky and to safety, but as she was trying to get the other two she fell out of the window. Mr. Chaloner tried in vain to enter the building using a ladder, but the fire was too

advanced and the ladder broke, inflict-ing a serious gash to his leg. Mr. Burns of the Grand Trunk Railroad also made several attempts to enter the structure to no avail, and cut his hand smashing a window.

Members of the Toronto Fire De-partment arrived, in the now pouring rain, and found the fire spreading through the entire block. The large crowd that had gathered informed firefighters of the two children still inside, but the structure was too in-volved in fire to enter. Chief Engineer James Ashfield arrived and directed crews in the attack and placed fire-fighters Thomas Hurst and James Kidd, from Station 4, with a hose line at the rear of the building.

While directing a stream on the fire, a large brick chimney fell without warning, landing on the two men. Firefighter Kidd was completely buried and was removed from the burning pile of debris. He had severe burns to his body as well as a broken jaw and ankle. Firefighter Hurst had a broken

arm and other minor injuries. His helmet, which was split open by a brick, undoubtedly saved his life. The fire virtually destroyed the block and wasn’t completely extinguished until five a.m. Firefighters then attended to the sad task of removing the charred remains of the two children.

Although expected to recover, Kidd took a turn for the worse on Saturday afternoon and died. He was twenty-seven, single, and a painter by trade. His older brother, Daniel, was also a Toronto firefighter. The baby removed by the Chaloner parents later died, bringing the death toll from the fire to four.

James Kidd, the last Toronto volun-teer firefighter to die in the line of duty before the department became full-time in 1874, now rests in Ne-cropolis Cemetery in the Peacock family grave.

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Kevin Ashfi eld

I just completed 15 years on the job the other day and while sitting around at the fire hall talking with my crew I had a sudden realization. It came to me that I had spent my first six years on the job being a Scarborough Fire Fighter and have spent the last 9 years talking about being a Scarborough Fire Fighter. I was proud to be a Scarborough Fire Fighter and today I’m just as proud to be one of 3,000 members of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association. Look at what we have been able to accomplish by working together. We’ve come a long way. What I’m trying to say is that you can’t forget your roots; it makes us who we are, but to be a successful organization we have to look to the future. We have to decide what we want to look like, where we want to go and how we want to get there. With the help of the membership we can move mountains. Stay safe.

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Rick Berenz

The value of having a viable and structured Government Relations Committee for this Association continues to be a priority. Our persistent and dedicated work in the past 2006 municipal election proved, once again, to be very successful. The majority of City Councilors assisted by the Association were either re-elected or elected. The importance of this success is very critical when a new Collective Agreement is being bargained. Provincial lobbying and election efforts were instrumental in the passage of Bill 206, better known as the change in OMERS legislation. This April will see us in Ottawa, continuing our lobby efforts for the Public Safety Officer Compensation Fund. With a new party in power since our last lobby effort, it will be interesting to see where fire fighters’ issues rank. In summary, Government Relations works, but it requires many hours of collective dedication and money. The results are worth the effort and that has been proven. Get involved, be proactive and you, the member, will allow the Association to achieve the necessary results we can all enjoy.


Dave Holwell

It is good to be back on the Executive Board and involved in Health & Safety and WSIB once again. The more things change the more they stay the same. This statement holds true today. The recent flurry of activity surrounding log books, SCBA sign off, injury reporting and securing your seatbelts is a prime example of things staying the same. We are all responsible to ensure the safety and well being of ourselves and our co-workers. The equipment must be checked and be ready to respond to any emergency. Take the time, CHECK IT and sign off to document it. Some people need to justify their jobs, lucky for us we need only to do our jobs!! Be Safe, Buckle up.


Scott Eyers

As the Chair of the Grievance Committee, my duty is to ensure that the rights and privileges enjoyed by all our members included in our Collective Agreement are enforced. The Grievance Committee often deals with members when they are in very stressful situations and when the potential ramifications of not acting properly are very high. The Association spares no expense when it comes to providing this membership with the best legal advice. Although the grievance process is by nature reactive, the Committee is taking steps to be more proactive in nature and offer more information to all members. We understand that recent articles in this magazine have been viewed as contentious by some, but those articles offer a reality check to the Committee and all Association members. The advice we receive from our legal council is based on case law and arbitrated awards from across the country. It is important to note that these awards help to form the labour climate of today. What may have been an accepted practice in the past, may not be the case now as things evolve in the present. The Grievance Committee will try to communicate and better educate all members as we move forward. Please take the time to read our articles in the magazine, check our website for updates, and when in question, refer to our Collective Agreement or contact a member of your Executive. Rule number one—obey now —grieve later.


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Ian Hamilton

The Health & Safety Committee has undergone major changes this term as Scott Eyers and Kevin McCarthy have undertaken duties elsewhere on the Board, and Hugh Doherty has taken over the chair of the South Committee from Paul Halls. I would like to thank Paul, Kevin and Scott for their input on the Committee and I know that they will continue to work toward the health and safety of our members. By the time this issue of Fire Watch reaches you, we will have been introduced to the new helmets and their shield systems, which will enhance our IMS. This spring should see the introduction of a second set of fire fighting gloves for suppression personnel and we will continue to push for a second flash hood so that everyone has a complete spare set of PPE. Other new members on the committee are Kevin Ashfield from East Command and Dave Holwell from West Command. Both of these members have health and safety backgrounds, which has resulted in little interruption on the committee. Through the Executive, the Health & Safety Committee continues to work on your behalf.


Keith Hamilton

I am now embarking on a new path in my union service. With the recent election, and some former executive officers not returning to office, I have been given the opportunity to work with WSIB and Modified Duties. I am still continuing with Finance and Pensions and have also been placed on the Constitution and Policy Committee. WSIB has always been an interest, but with my other duties, it never was raised beyond the basic level. I am now completing all of the prerequisite courses and am currently working with a number of members on their claims. While I’m pleased to be able to help member reverse unfavourable decisions, it would be far better to not have to appeal in the first place. The Committee will be looking at ways to educate the members on compensation claims to hopefully prevent the number of appeals we currently face. I am looking forward to a busy and productive term.


Rayanne Dubkov

I would like to take this opportunity to thank north command members for voting for me (or taking the bribe of cookies). I am proud to have been given this opportunity to represent you as Chair of the Ceremonial and Bereavement Committee, as well as being a member of the Human Relations, Stewards and Member Communications committees. The ceremonial and bereavement committee is working hard to organize events, memorials, parades and plaque dedications. We need your help to make them a HUGE SUCCESS !!! If you haven’t participated in the past, join us in 2007. With over 3000 members surely we can get just 300 (10%) attending each event organized and show how proud we are to be members of Local 3888. Over the past 2 years, as a Steward for the Communications Division, I am proud to have seen the membership participation increase at events. Some people say they were too scared to say no to me or they didn’t understand what I was saying in my English accent. We will continue this success with your help. See you soon at one on these events.


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John Tuffner

Let me start by thanking the members from West command for electing me to our Executive. I am honoured and committed to working diligently on behalf of our Association. As Chair of the Stewards committee, I am looking forward to working with and helping our Stewards continue to deliver the timely information and dedicated service that we have come to expect from them. They play a vital role in our Association, not only by bringing us the latest information and helping to resolve our issues, but also for all of the extra time and effort they contribute to the various initiatives and functions our union participates in. As a member of our Charity and Public Relations committees, I hope that I can help our membership continue to demonstrate their commitment to community service, while making sure that they get the credit they so justly deserve. As a member of the Entertainment committee, I will work to continue to provide our members with quality social, sports and recreational events that reflect our unique relationship as professional fire fighters.



Jim Morache

There is always a feeling out period for any new Executive Board Officer and like all those that came before me, I feel the pressure! So many things to learn and so much to do, but I feel I am up to the task. My thanksto the North Command membership for entrusting me with the responsibility of working on their behalf, and that of the entire Association. I will do my best to bring a fresh energy and positive attitude to the executive meetings and also try and find new and innovative ideas in dealing with the needs of the membership. As Chair of the Charity Committee, I am dedicated to finding a way of rewarding the members for their “TIME” and understand the value of your effort. We do not take this for granted and hope to find a solution in the near future. Without the volunteers, we would not be able to do the professional charitable work that we currently do! My early impressions are that this current board is extremely talented and extremely hard working and I am proud to be a part of this group and hope to do my part in its successes for 2007.


Neil McKinnon

After a two-year break, I decided last summer to throw my name back into the ring and with the support of the membership, I was re-elected to the Executive Board. Since then, many members have asked, “Why?” Why would I want to put myself through all that again? Well, after being involved for 11 years, I didn’t realize how much I was going to miss it. The job takes a great deal of time and is a ton of work but there is much to say about being involved and about being “in the know”. With that said, I look forward to working with the other Executive Board members and serving the membership of Local # 3888. As Chair of the Entertainment, Recreation, Sports & Social Committee and a member of the Grievance, Ceremonial & Bereavement and Membership Communication Committees, I believe my work is cut out for me for the next couple of years. Work has started with the planning of the Association’s Retirement Dinner, next up will be the Local # 3888 annual picnic and then the Kids Christmas party.


Hugh Doherty

Just as amalgamation affected all our lives and workplaces, so too will a critical piece of provincial legislation. This piece of legislation is the Human Rights Code and is known as Bill 107. The Human Relations Committee has attended various workshops on the proposed legislation and will be adding information, as it becomes available, to our web site. We urge all members to be informed of the impact of Bill 107 and read the updates. The Human Rights Code is complex and impacts each employee, but we are hopeful to have the City increase the education and training for members and have the training provided to fire fighters in a manner which all are able to understand. The concerns that the Committee addresses are varied and, in most cases, become very complex. We are planning to participate in conflict resolution courses to assist us in providing greater services to the membership. Our goal is to continue to provide advice to all members regarding their rights under the City’s policies and the provincial legislation at an early stage, with the intention of resolving issues before they escalate. If you have any questions regarding the City’s policy or Bill 107, please give a member of the Committee a call.


Kevin McCarthy

With talk of a new contract around the corner and the best five years of our OMERS contributions almost where they should be, the Benefits Committee would like to ensure that our members’ needs are met. In March, there will be another retirement session where anyone who is interested has an opportunity to ask questions and get information regarding retirement. For the first time we will have an individual talk about Independent Pensions Plans (IPP). Considering the amount of time that this issue has been debated, I am sure that there will be many attending.Improvements to our current benefits are being discussed at bargaining and we are all optimistic that advancements can be made to improve what we currently have. The Benefits Disputes Resolution Committee is meeting once a month to try and resolve individual issues and identify trends that can be useful in future bargaining. Please do not hesitate to contact someone from the committee if there are any questions or concerns.


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Article 22 Witness Service 22.01 That each employee of the City coming within the 3888 Unit who is subpoenaed to serve as a witness in a court in a civil or criminal proceeding:(a) shall be granted leave of absence for such purpose provided that upon completion of witness service such employee shall present to the Chief of Fire Services of the City a satisfactory certifi cate showing the period of such service.

If you are subpoenaed to attend court, for example coroner’s court, traffi c court or superior court, you should let your supervisor know. If you require time off to attend then the time will be granted. The TFS may also provide you with a lawyer, depending on the circumstances.

(b) shall be paid his/her full salary or wage for the period he/she was granted leave of absence on account of such witness service provided that he/she shall deposit with the Treasurer of the City the full amount of compensation received for such service and an offi cial receipt thereof; provided further that the “full amount of compensation” referred to in this paragraph, shall not include any compensation received for such witness service performed on any day that he/she would not otherwise be scheduled to work nor shall it include any compensation received by such employee for meal allowance or travelling expense; and

If you attend while on duty, you receive your regular rate of pay, provided you hand in the compensation you may have received from the court for attending. This WILL NOT include

FOR THIS ISSUE WE WILL LOOK AT ARTICLE 22, WITNESS SERVICE, AND OUR LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING RE: REMUNERATION FOR ATTENDANCE AT A COURT OR INQUEST.

such compensation for meals or travel (no mileage from the TFS but the court may reimburse you).

(c) provided that if the employee would have been acting in a higher rank at the time of said witness service, he/she shall be paid at the acting rate of pay.

No loss of any acting time missed while you attended court.

(d) Provided further that in the event he/she is released from witness service and there are three (3) hours or more remain-ing in his/her shift, he/she shall contact his/her Platoon Chief who will determine whether the employee must report for duty during that shift.

If there is less than 3 hours remaining in your regular shift you do not need to go back to work. If there is greater than 3 hours, you must contact your Platoon Chief (Suppression Division) or District Chief (Support Division) to determine where you will be report-ing or if you are required to return.

22.02 That each employee of the City coming within the 3888 Unit who is required to attend court as a witness on a matter relating to his/her duties as a member of the Fire Services of the City: (a) shall be granted time off to attend such court when on duty. If the employee is acting in a higher rank at the time of said witness service, he/she shall be paid at the acting rate of pay; (b) shall be compensated in accordance with Article 10, “Overtime”, when required to attend during off duty hours.

You will receive 1½ times your hourly

rate when required to attend during off duty hours for time spent at court. A minimum of 4 hours will be paid.

Letter of Understanding Re: Remuneration for Attendance at a Court or Inquest on Fire Services Business.

When an employee is off duty and required in connection with Toronto Fire Services business to attend an inquest, court or other tribunal, the employee will receive compensation according to the Standby and Call back policy. Employees on standby status are paid one hour for every eight hours or less, on a straight time basis that will be calculated on a 24-hour basis for each day an employee is required to be on standby. Employees who attend or who are put on standby status for an inquest, court or other tribunal will make every reasonable attempt to provide documentation to substantiate such claims for remuneration.

There are occasions when the courts may place you on standby. In those circumstances you would be com-pensated by the TFS for one (1) hour for every eight (8) hours you are on standby. If you are called into court you would be paid a minimum of three (3) hours at time and a half.

For example:You are told to be prepared to be called as a witness anytime after 0800hrs on Tuesday and to be available all week. You do not receive the call until Thurs-day to attend at 1000hrs. In this case you would receive seven (7) hours at straight time as well as time and a half for the time you are actually at court, for a minimum of three (3) hours.

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THE 411 ON CALL TAKING

BY ADRIAN HOWELL – TORONTO FIRE FIGHTER

Toronto Fire”. For the majority of people dealing with the To-ronto Fire Services, these are

the fi rst words they hear. And for the record, they are spoken by our Call Takers in Communications.

Each shift has a standard complement of at least four call takers. These people take information from various groups in order to create an event. In 2006, approximately 18% of the total calls that the Communications Division received were from 911. The rest of the calls are gathered from alarm companies, EMS and a wide variety of other agencies and organizations. For example, we have received calls from Enbridge, TTC, other fi re departments, as well as the Canadi-an Pacifi c and Canadian National Police.

Regardless of where the call origi-nates, the call taker ensures that as much accurate information as possible is gathered from the person giving us the call. First and foremost is a correct address. If the call has come in through 911 and on a land line, an “ANI/ALI dump” will accompany it. “Annie Alley” stands for automatic number indicator/automatic location indicator. It will give the call taker the address, name, and telephone number. After confi rming

with the caller that the emergency is located at or near the address indicated, the call taker will ask the appropriate questions to determine the nature of the emergency. “What’s on fi re?”, “Is someone trapped?”, “How many people are involved?” are just some of the questions we ask. The call taker is often dealing with panicky, scared, and hard to understand people. It is vital that despite these diffi culties, an accurate address is entered into the Computer Aided Dispatch system (CAD for short).

The Ontario Fire Marshal requires that we indicate where the call origi-nates. The categories are 911 (citizen), non 911 (citizen), EMS (call from EMS), Police (call from Toronto Police), Alarm (from an alarm company), Fire (from another fi re department), Verbal (a verbal report to a fi re station, still alarm), Radio (call from a TFS employee operated radio), and Other (a catch-all). All of this information is on the printout which is received by the station when they are dispatched on an event.

Once the call taker has all the infor-mation he/she needs, they will choose an event type. The event type determines what apparatus will get dispatched to a call, and how many. There are over

50 event types; from the single truck medical to a rescue-structural collapse.

On an average weekday, 880 calls are received by the Communications Division, while during the weekend, that number drops to 547 (all statistics are 2006). South Command has the most events on weekdays, weekends, day shifts and night shifts. The rest of the commands are virtually tied for second place. For some strange reason, if it’s going to be busy, it will be a busy Thursday. Seven out of the nine busiest days were Thursdays. The total number of calls answered in 2006 by Communi-cations was just over 279,000. And the majority of those calls were answered by our call takers.

This is in no way a comprehensive de-scription of what our call takers do on a day-to-day basis, what their roles are, or the responsibility that they must shoul-der. Being there when the public is re-porting an emergency is their most pow-erful and important function. In times of stress and pure terror, it is the call taker that provides the fi rst reassurance that the Toronto Fire Services will be there to help them mitigate any problem and deal with whatever threat to life, prop-erty and the environment is occurring.

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BY MARLA FRIEBE, FIRE WATCH COMMITTEE MEMBER

mechanical aficionado, but they all start to look the same ... metal.

Downstairs everyone is very busy, and very greasy. The technicians are clearly hard at work but still take the time to smile and say hello to any newcomer. I watch them work for a while, and can’t help think about how thankful I am that people with such mechanical aptitude exist to help keep our fleet on the road, especially since my own mechanical skills encompass putting air in my tires, checking my ve-hicle’s oil levels and topping up window washer fluid. Passing through the office space, I meet up with North District Captain Ron Hampton; he’s very wel-coming, and makes sure I have all the information I need before leaving.

Here are a few things I learned while on tour:

There are 42 TFS staff working with-in the Mechanical Maintenance Divi-sion and the Division Chief overseeing the entire operation is Rob Anselmi,

In 2002, the various mechanical divisions from the six former municipalities amalgamated their

fleet repair operations into a single facility at 40 Toryork Drive. The site is a joint facility, shared with Toronto Police Service’s Vehicle Operations, and the Transportation Division sign production shop. Toronto Fire operates within 27,000 square feet of the 46,000 square foot facility. Prior to amalgamation, maintenance of the fleet was shared by Toronto Fire Services, Corporate Fleet Services, and external private garages. Prompting the change was a report submitted to the Budget Advisory Com-mittee proposing that Toronto Fire Services should assume maintenance of their entire fleet, for safety related reasons and cost savings. Those chang-es became effective in April 2002.

With this article in mind, I was invited to visit the Toryork Drive site in February by District Chief Keith Norris. Snowstorms and work schedules de-layed that initial visit, so in late Febru-ary I decided on an impromptu visit instead. A quick walk about the facility with District Chief Bill Pearsall, who immediately offered to give the tour, depicts a large central bay where all 179 trucks and 180 light vehicles of Toronto Fire Service’s fleet are serviced and maintained. On the day of my tour, the bay is full with four large apparatus high up on hydraulic lifts, giving an interesting view of underbellies not normally seen. One can easily see that every square foot of the facility is used to its fullest. “On busy days in the warmer weather the fleet is often main-tained outside,” Pearsall commented,

“Since frequently there is not enough room in the main garage for all the ap-paratus.” During the winter, mainte-nance and repairs take place inside and space is extremely constrained, espe-cially with vehicles and equipment that can be sensitive to dropping tempera-tures outdoors. A plan is in place to either add on to the building or find an additional site in the east end of the city. The main floor also consists of of-fice space for the mechanical mainte-nance staff, kitchen facilities, fitness room (shared with police), and a sepa-rate section dedicated to the repair of SCBA, defibrillators, and oxygen deliv-ery systems. A mezzanine floats above the garage bay and is primarily utilized for storage of various vehicle compo-nents that are in hot demand, like bum-pers. As Chief Pearsall continues his tour of the mezzanine, he kindly points out all of the spare parts, naming each one as we go by. I try to keep the parts’ names straight, not being too much of a

TORYORK DRIVEA View At

District Chief KEITH NORRIS 338-9200

District Chief BILL PEARSALL 338-9220

North District Captain RON HAMPTON 338-9201

East District Captain ED PETRONIS 338-9202

South District Captain JOHN COSENI 338-9203

West District Captain RICK CARANFA 338-9204

Equipment Services MAIN LINE 338-9218

Equipment ServicesANGELO PUOPOLO338-9219

SCBA Captain DAVE STEVENS 338-9229

Defi b & VentSTEVE LOVE 338-9240


who works out of Headquarters at 4330 Dufferin Street. The section is respon-sible for the maintenance and repair of all vehicles and equipment in our inven-tory, including a total heavy fleet of 179 vehicles (all fire fighting, support and training vehicles) and 180 light vehicles. Responsibility for the ongoing operation and maintenance of the William Lyon Mackenzie fireboat also falls under this section, as well as that of the Sora, the much smaller vessel that acts as a back-up to the Mackenzie when it is out of service or during warmer months. Vehicles are not the only items for re-pair on the agenda here; Technicians also maintain our complete inventory of small equipment, SCBA’s, small engines and ladders.

The Mechanical Division is run by two District Chiefs, Keith Norris who oversees Vehicle Maintenance (and in-cludes a staff of four Captains and 20 Mechanics and Technicians), and Bill Pearsall who is in charge of Equipment Maintenance (and includes two Cap-tains, six Mechanics and Technicians, the Senior Marine Engineer and five Marine Engineers). Equipment Mainte-nance has two satellite locations as well, one at our 15 Rotherham Road location and one at the fireboat at the Harbour-front Fire Station in South Command. Four mobile repair units are also uti-lized by the Technicians, with the ability to respond to any required

location in the city to deal with me-chanical issues, whether at a Fire Station, an emergency scene, or some-where on the road.

Every year our Mechanics perform an untold number of repairs to keep our vehicles working and safe for operation. Glaring issues that bring our apparatus into the garage in the first place are of-ten the catalyst for finding other prob-lems on the same truck. Our Mechanics have to be recognized for the important work they do, especially when they are able to identify issues that may become serious problems down the road if not dealt with promptly. Due to necessary troubleshooting, sometimes this results in delays to apparatus being returned to immediate frontline service, however, this prevents fire fighting crews from having to complete a multitude of changeovers in the future. Their pri-mary concern is the safe and efficient operation of frontline apparatus.

It is clear what a vital role the Me-chanical Division plays in the ability of our fire fighters and Support Division staff to respond to the immediate emer-gency and educational needs of our community. Keep these numbers handy in the event that you have questions or require some assistance from some of the staff, so important to keeping both our heavy and light apparatus operating safely on city highways, roads, and even on Lake Ontario!

CONTACTSTORYORK DRIVE

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SUDDEN DEATH? LET’S FACE IT; WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. WE DON’T KNOW WHEN, BUT IT WILL HAPPEN,

AND IT’S VITAL THAT YOU ARE PREPARED. WHETHER YOU ARE YOUNG OR OLD, THERE ARE

A FEW SIMPLE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO IN ORDER TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY WHEN

YOU DO PASS. AN ESTATE IS THE TOTAL OF ALL THE THINGS YOU OWN AND WILL PASS ON

TO YOUR DESIGNATES (CALLED ‘BENEFICIARIES’) AFTER YOU PASS ON. YOU SPEND YOUR

LIFETIME BUILDING YOUR ESTATE, SO YOU DON’T WANT TO DIMINISH YOUR LEGACY WITH

UNNECESSARY INCOME TAX AND PROBATE FEES. PROPER ESTATE PLANNING CAN HELP

PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING, AND ALTHOUGH A PROFESSIONAL, SUCH AS A LAWYER,

IS NOT NECESSARY, IT IS ADVISABLE TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE WHO CAN ENSURE ALL OF

YOUR WISHES ARE CLEARLY SPELLED OUT. IT IS ALSO HELPFUL TO KEEP KEY PERSONAL,

MEDICAL AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE. MANY PEOPLE FIND IT USEFUL TO

COLLECT RELEVANT INFORMATION IN ONE MASTER FILE.

HAVE YOU PREPARED FOR YOUR

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SUDDEN DEATH?

Your master fi le can be divided into the following categories and should include the following information:

Personal and

Family

Birth certifi cates, marriage certifi cates, citizenship papers, divorce/separa-tion papers, adoption papers, S.I.N., passports numbers & expiration dates, driver’s licenses number & expiration dates and any other piece of informa-tion relevant to you or your spouse.

Medical

Name/address/telephone numbers of health care professionals, healthcare proxies/living wills, medications (dos-ages, name of prescribing physicians, pharmacy, address/phone number), address and phone numbers of hospi-tals of choice, Health Card number, social worker or caseworker names and contact information.

Financial

Income sources (retirement and/or disability benefi ts), fi nancial assets (institution names, account numbers, address/telephone, form of ownership, current value) of cash, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, money market funds, retirement and pension plans, RSPs and life insurance, real estate (property addresses, location of deeds, form of ownership, currentvalue), other assets (locations of items/titles/documents/form of own-ership, current value) including auto-mobiles, boats, inheritances, precious gems, collectibles, household items, hidden valuables/ items in storage, loans to family members/friends, li-

abilities (creditor institutions, address/telephone, approximate debt) of mort-gages, personal loans, credit cards, notes, IOUs and others. It is also useful to collect names, addresses and phone numbers of professional advisors such as bankers, attorneys, clergy, stockbro-kers and insurance agents. Also include in this category names and relevant dates of past employers, names and numbers of close friends, club mem-berships and landlord information.

Ensure that someone knows where you keep this information, such as a safe deposit box, home safe, etc. Docu-ments such as original copies of wills, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and so on would be better kept with an attorney or in another safe but accessible place.

Make sure a benefi ciary has been designated for all RRSPs, pension plans and life insurance policies. This will ensure that these assets are not included in your estate and attract probate fees. If the named benefi cia-ry is your spouse, the asset may fl ow through tax-free. Unless other provi-sions are made, jointly held assets with right of survivorship (e.g. a house) will pass to the joint owner without probate fees, if it is your spouse, it will not attract tax.

Your wishes for post death such as burial, cremation, organ dona-tion, etc. should be made known in advance and can be stated in your Will. Review your Will annually and after life changes, such as marriage, a death or a birth, to ensure all provi-sions still apply. In Ontario, a Will is automatically revoked upon marriage unless the Will specifi cally states that the Will is made in “contemplation of

marriage.” After a divorce, all bequests to the former spouse are revoked unless the Will states otherwise.

One area that is often overlooked in situations of life changes is the desig-nation of benefi ciary on pension plans and RRSPs and RRIFs. These designa-tions are not automatically revoked in the case of a marriage or divorce, so you need to make sure they are updated.

Complete the Power of Attorney documents for property or health care. This would allow a person(s) you trust to act on your behalf and in your inter-est should you become incapacitated and unable to manage your fi nancial affairs or ongoing health care.

You need to have a life insurance policy large enough to pay off your ex-isting debt and to provide money for your family’s living expenses. If you have children, you need to determine who will raise them if both you and your spouse were to die before the children are old enough to take care of themselves. Once you make this decision, you will need to visit a law-yer to have it properly recorded. You will also need to let others know of the decision so that there are no big surprises if you do die prematurely. A living will is a document that states whether you want to be kept alive by machines for an extended period of time. This is a quality-of-life issue and will make complicated decisions easier for your family members during a diffi cult time.

As you take the time to prepare, you will know that you have done the best to provide for your family. Spare them a little bit of heartache by preparing now.

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Workplace privacy is an important part of the basic autonomy rights of individuals in our society. Members spend a big part of their lives in the workplace. Privacy protection for our members is something we take very seriously at Local 3888. With the advancement of technology, it is something that 3888 is monitoring even more closely. With that in mind we have asked Suzanne Craig, director, City of Toronto Corporate Access & Privacy some specifi c questions in regards to privacy. We are pleased to bring the 1st part of a two part series on the subject. The fi rst part deals with the City of Toronto privacy offi ce and the second part will deal with technology advancement and what it means for employees.

BY SUZANNE CRAIG – DIRECTOR, CITY OF TORONTO CORPORATE ACCESS & PRIVACY

I am very pleased that the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Associa-tion has asked me to discuss access

and privacy at the City of Toronto. Al-though the right to privacy is not specifi -cally referenced in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is considered to fall within section 7 of the Charter which guarantees the right to liberty and security of the person. Privacy in the workplace has increasingly become a central issue to many individuals and the City of Toronto’s Corporate Access and Privacy Offi ce is committed to en-suring that City employees benefi t from the protections afforded under the letter and spirit of privacy laws.

The Corporate Access and Privacy Of-fi ce (CAP) manages freedom of informa-tion requests and privacy protection for the City of Toronto. CAP is a legislatively mandated offi ce supporting the appli-cation of and compliance with MFIPPA– the Municipal Freedom of Informa-tion and Protection of Privacy Act and PHIPA – the Personal Health Information Protection Act.

The City’s CAP Offi ce has developed an Access and Privacy Manual for staff to

use when responding to public requests for access to City of Toronto records. In addition the Manual outlines to City staff, the requirements of MFIPPA related to the protection of individual privacy.

The City’s CAP Offi ce also delivers monthly access and privacy training as part of the City’s corporate training calendar, in addition to, developing and delivering specialized training for program area staff who face specifi c ac-cess and privacy challenges in their day-to-day operations. Through its compre-hensive training package, the CAP Offi ce assists City staff in better understanding privacy, not only in terms of compli-ance with the privacy rules of MFIPPA, but also in terms of how the personal information of the public and City em-ployees, is being collected, used, stored and accessed. The public and City em-ployees expect that their personal infor-mation that they provide to the City for a specifi c purpose will be respected and protected from unlawful disclosure or disclosure for an inconsistent purpose.

CAP has corporate responsibility for providing advice to program areas necessary for them to comply with

privacy legislation. Before a program area implements a new technology or service relating to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, the completion of a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) or a Privacy Compliance Review, overseen by the CAP Offi ce is not only strongly suggested, but required, for certain levels of capital budget projects. The PIA is a process that will identify a program area or system’s privacy risks and will make recommendations to help mitigate or eliminate risks.

Individuals may complain to the Of-fi ce of the Information and Privacy Com-missioner of Ontario (IPC), when they believe that the City has improperly collected, used, disclosed, retained or disposed of their personal information. The IPC is responsible for reviewing possible breaches of the privacy provi-sions of MFIPPA. There are a number of avenues available to employees who want to make a privacy complaint.

If an employee believes that his/her personal information has been collect-ed, used or disclosed unlawfully, he/she may address the privacy concerns with the manager or supervisor in charge of

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the area where the privacy issue arose. If the employee is not satisfi ed with the program manager’s response, he/she can fi le a privacy complaint with the CAP Offi ce. CAP staff will investigate the al-legations and make recommendations to help address or resolve the complaint. In addition, employees, as members of the public, always have the option of con-tacting the IPC to fi le a formal privacy complaint, whether or not they have fi led a complaint with the CAP Offi ce.

Privacy in the workplace is not some-thing that has been clearly defi ned in access and privacy laws. The City must balance the employer’s legitimate need to maintain a safe, productive work-place, in which there is adequate protec-tion of City assets, with the protection of employees’ privacy concerns.

The City of Toronto is a public in-stitution and as such, is governed by MFIPPA. However, as a public institution, the rules of MFIPPA are not the only re-quirements that the City must consider when collecting, using and disclosing personal information about individuals. City employees can request access to their own information and have privacy or confi dentiality rights under various provincial and federal statutes, which in addition to MFIPPA include: the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Income Tax Act.

MFIPPA requires the City to imple-ment guidelines and policies for protect-ing personal information in its record holdings. MFIPPA also gives the IPC the authority to comment on the privacy implications of proposed City programs. Under access and privacy legislation, the Privacy Commissioner can order the City to: cease a personal information collec-tion practice that contravenes MFIPPA, and destroy a collection of personal information that contravenes MFIPPA.

Collective agreements do not often identify and address protection of indi-

vidual privacy of employees. Access and Privacy legislation that relates to municipal institutions contains specifi c exemptions that function to exclude matters that deal with labour relations. However, outside of the access and privacy framework, arbitrators in Ontario have long recog-nized restri-

tions on the exercise of

management rights. It is within this context of

overlapping legisla-tive frameworks that the CAP Of-fi ce has led the initiative of the City Clerk’s Offi ce Workplace Access and Privacy Woring Group. The formation of this group, made up of representatives of various program areas in the City, is the fi rst step towards developing an employ-ee privacy policy at the City. For now, the group has decided to begin with the development of a set of Workplace Ac-cess and Privacy Guidelines to serve as a guide to employee’s access and privacy rights in relation to how the City collects, uses, maintains and discloses employee information required for the effective management of its workforce.

While employment-related records fall outside of the scope of MFIPPA, em-ployees can still request access to their own personal information and have the right to protection of that personal in-formation. Generally, records relating to matters involving labour relations, fraud

investigations and/or other issues that may lead to legal proceedings are not routinely available to employees.

We are all employees of the City of To-ronto, and we have a right to be informed about how our personal information will be used. Respect for individuals is best demonstrated through assurances of the protection of fundamental rights. I look forward with optimism to the continued discussion around the need to balance the employer’s right to advance its business interests with the fundamental privacy rights of employees at the City of Toronto.

You may contact Suzanne at [email protected] as well as the web address for the Corporate Access and Privacy Offi ce www.toronto.ca/cap/index.htm

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President Marks accepts a “Thank You” plaque from Toronto Combat Challenge team members on behalf of the 3888 membership at the December General Membership meeting.

Local 3888 Executive, Stewards and Members participate in the “Bowl for Kids Sake” Bowl-A-Thon on February 3 at Thorncliffe Bowlerama

The new Local 3888 Executive Board is sworn in at the December 2006 General Membership meeting.

3888RECENT HAPPENINGS


Q107’s John Derringer (far left) and Bill Hayes (2nd from left) present the plaque for winning Derringer’s Workplace Tour to Toronto Fire Fighter Dave Whitehead (holding plaque) and Ryan Parker from Q107 (far right). The morning show was broadcast live from the union offi ce on February 23rd. $1500 was donated to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness on behalf of Toronto Fire Fighters.

Local 3888 member John Dove and his family participated in the Extreme Team Prostate Cancer Research Fund Raiser and raised over $1300.00 for the cause.

Over 100 fi re fi ghters were in attendance at Jack Astors in Newmarket on January 31st to wish Jacques Bourdon (front left) and Richard Parker (front middle) a happy retirement.

Local 3888 representatives attend the multiple Line of Duty Death Memorial Service in Winnipeg for Captains Harold Lessard and Thomas Nichols on February 14th.

3888Over 100 fi re fi ghters were in attendance at Jack Astors in

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For advertising in the Toronto Fire Watch

magazine call NaderiaTel: 416.646.3128 Fax: 416.646.3135

[email protected]


BY MARCEL RAMAGNANO

Bill was born in Toronto where he also attended school. He has two

grown up daughters and presently lives in Scarborough. He moved around the province when he was with the railway, living in Belleville, Nakina, Hornepayne, Sarnia and eventually back to Toronto.

He spent over 30 years with CN Rail and Via Rail and took an early pension when the passenger railway was mak-ing reductions. Too young to retire, Bill came to the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association in June of 2000.

He enjoys computers, golf, photogra-phy and travel.

WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND AND HOW DID YOU START WORK-ING FOR LOCAL 3888?My background is actually not in fire fighting at all. My background is basi-cally in railroading. I’ve spent thirty years with the railroads: ten years on the trains and twenty years in manage-ment. I’ve spent most of my career in management and worked in various locations across the province. I took an early buy-out from the railway and wound up here in June of 2000.

WHAT DOES YOUR JOB ENTAIL ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS?Basically, my job entails looking after the office, the building, the suppliers, the services, the staff, as well as

LOCAL 3888 STAFF PROFILE

helping to maintain any changes to our website. And then I report to the fifteen people on the Executive Board.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE BEST THING ABOUT WORKING FOR LOCAL 3888?The best thing I find about working here is the people. I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a better bunch of people anywhere! The fire fighters are a compassionate group and they always want to give and help when anyone’s in any sort of trouble—that’s the first thing I noticed. With the first sign of any trouble from any group or person, you’re just flooded with requests to help.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECT OF WORKING FOR LOCAL 3888?I guess the most challenging aspect is the fact that there are fifteen different people on the Executive Board and they all have different priorities. It’s tough to be juggling different requests from up to fifteen different people, sometimes all at the same time.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR IMPACT ON LOCAL 3888?I would say my impact has been more of a method of trying to coordinate things so that we could be in a position to get

information out to the membership. When I first came here, Local 3888 was newly formed and was being run as a much smaller organization. All of a sud-den, we found we had three thousand people in the organization so there had to be some changes in the structure and in the way things were handled. It’s a business! I don’t care if your business is railroading or selling things at a grocery store—business is business and sometimes you have to structure things in a business environment. That was one thing that was a little bit lacking here because it was once a small organization and then all of a sudden it becomes a much bigger organization.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT WORKING FOR LOCAL 3888?I guess I would have to say my most memorable and dramatic moment would be 9/11. We heard about it, we turned the radio on and we were watching it downstairs on the television. I was standing beside Jim Lee, who was the President at the time, and when that first building collapsed he just said, “There are going to be hundreds of fire fighters killed,” which unfortunately turned out to be very true. I think that was a moment I will never forget.

BILL RADCLIFFE OFFICE MANAGER

Local 3888 employs three full-time staff members to help run the day-to-day business at 39 Commissioners Street. This is our second of a three-part series to profi le these members in Fire Watch.

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DATE* EVENT LOCATION

April 1 - 5 OPFFA “Dr. Eric G. Taylor” Spring Seminar Niagara Falls, Ontario

Tuesday April 17 Night meeting only (1900 Hrs) 3888 General Union Meeting RCL Br. 527 948 Sheppard Ave. W.

April 23 - 26 IAFF Legislative Conference Ottawa, Ontario

Tuesday April 10 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

TFS Recruit Career Information Session

Toronto City Hall

Monday April 16, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

TFS Recruit Career Information Session North York Civic Centre

Tuesday May 23 Night meeting only (1900 Hrs) 3888 General Union Meeting RCL Br. 527 948 Sheppard Ave. W.

Tuesday May 29 Stewards Meeting 3888 Union office

Tuesday May 29 Ross Forfar Golf Tournament Sleepy Hollow Golf Club, Stouffville

Friday June 1 3888 Retirement Dinner Dance Q’Ssis, Toronto

Monday June 4 4th Annual Rick Mann Golf Tournament The Highlands Golf Club, Bradford

June 11-14 OPFFA Convention Kingston, Ontario

June 14 Fire Fighters Calendar Competition Phoenix Night Club, Toronto

June 24-27 IAFF EMS Conference Houston, Texas

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TORONTO FIRE FIGHTERS BREAKFAST CLUBSWHO: Firefighters Past & Present

WHEN: 10:00 am, the first four Wednesdays of the month. Remember N.E.W.S.

NORTH April 4, May 2, June 6 EAST April 11, May 9, June 13WEST April 18, May 16, June 20 SOUTH April 25, May 23, June 27

WHY: The camaraderie was and still is the best part of the job of firefighter. Touch base with the people you worked with. You never know who might show up. Spread the word. Call your friends or co workers.

If further information is required call Mike Jansen at 705 292-0114 or Cell 705 927-2224

NORTHButtery Restaurant17565 Yonge St. N Newmarket, ON

EASTCarousel Restaurant & Tavern116 Lansdowne St. E.Peterborough, ON

WESTFifth Wheel Truck Stop40 Chisholme DriveMilton, ON (Hwy 401 & Hwy 25)

SOUTHGolden Griddle Rest.2044 Sheppard Ave. EToronto, ON (at Brian Drive)

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ABC Auto Hand Wash ......................... 42Active Green & Ross ........................... 10AlarmForce ........................................ 16All Financials 412 .............................. 10Alliance Training ............................... 28C.P.S. Inc ........................................... 28CVC Communications ........................ 38Carpet Villa Ltd .................................. 58Challal Pastries .................................. 58Chatarpaul Law Office ....................... 58Daniel Gavrilovic ............................... 12Delroy’s Auto Repair .......................... 38Den Bosch & Fincheley ....................... 28Discount Beauty Supplies ................... 28Dr Nader Raffi .................................... 42Dutton Brock LLP .............................. 27Elephant & Castle ............................... 30EWHA Bakery .................................... 42

Exit Realty Prestige ............................ 48Fabricated Alloys ................................ 58Fairview Mall ..................................... 62Fire Hall Online ..................................11FF Credit Union .............. Inside Ft CoverForward Precision Tools ..................... 62Fox & Fiddle ....................................... 28Funeral Sanitation ............................. 28Good Time Auto Service .................... 48GTA Truck & Trailer Repair ................ 58Ho-Lee Chow ..................................... 17Investors Group ................................. 46ITT Industries of Canada .................... 48Jablonex Canada Inc ........................... 10Jack M. Straitman .............................. 48Jesco Technologies ............................. 58Jiffy Lube ................ Outside Back CoverLabow Stephen Barrister .................... 42

Laurentian University ........................ 30Lincoln Place ...................................... 58Linda’s Bridal Fashion ........................ 10Liza Homes ........................................ 40Maverick Public Relations .................. 42Mortek Interior Ltd ............................ 42Mr Pita ............................................... 27Nellies Custom Design ....................... 12Norr Ltd Architechs & Engineers ....... 38North City .......................................... 48Nossa Casa Sport Café Inc .................. 40Owasco Volkswagen .......................... 46Pain Perdu .......................................... 40Pantuso’s Cleaning Services Inc ......... 38Rajin’s West Indian Take Out ............. 42Remax Spirit ...................................... 31River Towne ....................................... 10Robin Barker’s Associates ....................11

Rosehaven Homes .............................. 40Royal Pine .......................................... 12RSA Discount Furniture ..................... 58Sabitini Gourmet Foods ..................... 58Sandra Sinsley Gallery ....................... 28Scarborough Lexus Toyota ................. 30SNS Painting & Contracting ............... 10Starfield Laura ................................... 28Survival Carpets & Renovations ......... 38The O’Neil Centre ............................. 38Tri-Cell Communications ..................... 7Unicer Foods Limited ......................... 16Wash UP & Brush ............................... 31Wegz Stadiumbar ............................... 12Wireless ...................... Inside Back CoverYour Expression Floral Design Ltd ..... 31Zeidler Partnership ............................ 42Zoocheck Canada ............................... 40

ADVERTISERS INDEX

Classified Advertising in the Toronto Fire Watch Magazine

Ads run one issue free of charge. Home phone or pager numbers will be used. Ads MUST be submitted in writing. Phoned ads are not accepted. Submit before the second Tuesday of the month. Send to Toronto Fire Watch, Box 157, 253 College St., Toronto ON M5T1R5 or email: [email protected]

Name: Division:

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Ad (20 words max – please print clearly):

# of issues: Payment: Cheque: Credit Card #

Signature: Price: $25/issue + GST=

FINANCIAL SECURITY PLAN-NING: contact J Neil Reid for RRSP’s, RESP’s, Mutual Funds, Segregated Funds, Mortgages, Insurance as well as Tax Services—investing you can trust—CJ Financial, 11 years in Whitby 905-666-6829 or Freedom 55 Financial at 1-800-791-1324 ext 393.

HOME FOR SALE: Waterdown—Unique, detached, 2 story, 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, brick home on 33’ X 120’ fully fenced/ landscaped lot. Deck, patio, Gas F/P, C/A (06’),C/V. MANY upgrades & extras. Close to all amenities. Asking $297,900.00. Call Dan-(905)920-9526 or Jan-(905) 920-6347.

ROOMMATE WANTED to share 3 bedroom plus den townhouse with walkout finished basement in sought after Whitby neighbourhood. All utilities $650.00/month. Please call 416-235-8223.

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Toronto Fire Service

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Motorola Razr Samsung 900 LG Fusic

Blackberry 7250$24.95 $24.95 $54.95

Blackberry 7130

$74.95

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AirtimePLANS

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Documents

Fire Watch (Spring 2007)