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Show 6 July 29, 1999 ib n n 1 Sao ifsgGiters won award with children to reduce accidents. by Mary Galbraith Hilltop Times Firefighters are annually charged with orches- staff Hill AFB firefighters extinguished any doubts that they're the most outstanding fire department in Air Force Materiel Command by earning the CMSgt. Ralph E. Sanborn Award for fiscal year 1998. "We took the award for AFMC and were in competition with 13 other departments," said Hill Fire Chief Robert Schultz. "We've invested a lot of time and money. Not only technically but also in the supervisory, management and leadership roles. We've done some extensive training with outside sources seminars with the national fire academy in Maryland, the state fire academy of Utah and we host a number of courses here in the fire station. We also have a training room we use daily." Sanborn, the award's namesake, dedicated his 44 year career (1943 to 1987) to improving Air Force fire protection capabilities.. The award recognizes, "departments who receive the highest degrees if excellence in base mission support and fire protect tion management." Hill's fire department listed four specific achievements during fiscal year 1998. Under, the "Incidents resulting in property salvage or pre- vention of loss of lives" several accomplishments are "We protected $3.2 billion in what they call a plant replacement value. That's the dollar figure that they put on square footage of the installation. That doesn't include contents, that's just the facilities. The actual figure is probably, double that when you start looking at what's inside each building," said Schultz. The department responded to 108 emergencies, 58 ground emergencies, 14 fuel spills, 186 medical emergencies, 42 fires, 29 hazardous material calls, 77 medivac standbys and 12 bomb threats and all that doesn't include the 1,265 inves- tigations and fire alarm activations the department in-flig- ht worked on. Other criteria areas included "Implementation of cost effective measures to support the mission," "Achievement of high resource taxing mission" and "Quality management." : A'. if In addition to fire safety, the department manages the baby sitter program and will check car seats in vehicles to ensure they're properly secured for no fee. 4 Brig. Gen. Thomas O'Riordan presents Hill AFB Fire Chief Robert Schultz with the CMSgt. Ralph E. Sanborn Award for fiscal year 1998. Hill firefighters beat out 13 other departments in Air Force Materiel Command to receive the award. There are , Multi-Denomenatio- register and for more information, call 776-030- 4. , JLciir Care Welcomes WASATCH ODCYN . . IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE ADDITION OF Tcirrirriy Iff xC Specializing in clipper cafe, long hair layering, perms and highlights! Call today for yoar appointment tith Tammy! Don 't forget to take adoantage of her great coupons! F I I DO. 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Schultz said the base has one of the e staffed hazardous materials teams. only Area departments call occasionally for resources but more often for technical advice on situations relying on the team's expertise. While no major fires have occurred on base recently, Schultz reminds residents and personnel the potential is high. "We've had two grass fires just the last weekend both caused by birds hitting high tension wires. There are areas where we can't cut the grass because of environmental issues so that's always going to be a problem," he said. "We would encourage people to be aware of the severity of the season. Grass isj getting to its tallest lengths and starting to die off. Fire will spread very rapidly." high-risthe of nature Despite firefighting, Schultz with the enjoys working public and providing vital doing things right. The department's customer service, fire prevention, education and numerous community safety services stand out as examples of excellence. Hill's fire department is also recognized e as the most in AFMC. "We do a lot of customer service because we're a service industry and look at not only meeting the services. "I've been doing this for 30y years," said Schultz. customers needs but exceeding them. Whenever it's He's remained in the dangerous occupation because appropriate we have a customer service form that we hand out to people. It just depends on the cir- of "the good feeling you get when you help somecumstances." ; body out in an emergency situation when they can't In additidn to customer service, seven employees help themselves. And for my part, it's making e work on fire prevention helping inform base sure that all my folks go home safe at the end of and residents on safety issues and work their shift." personnel 564 South 800 East Open Enrollment for Fall 84 Hill firefighters. About 25 are mili- tary. Personnel are spread between three stations. "We've been injury and death free for a number of we're years here at Hill which is a good indicator ' , doing things right," said Schultz. There are several other indicators Hill stations are The School of St. Peter 776-030- trating fire prevention week. The department spends more than $15,000 getting information out basewide but prevention is extended well beyond that one week. The department works with organization like the Family Support Center several times a year providing input and information on base safety days. At the end of July the department will perform some demonstrations for the 388th squadron at their annual picnic. mwK sr . . W fe a.4 mm Va vtmsmiw m. mmm v ' j KJ Then check out our Sports Briefs for information on upcoming, interesting events! a 18 |