2012-11-14 Fire Commission Regular Minutes

Home

Hawai‘i County Fire Commission Regular Session Minutes November 14, 2012 Page 3 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION Hiring and Promotions: On November 16 Kazuo Todd will be promoted to fire captain in the Kona Prevention Bureau. They are working with Managing Director Bill Takaba, to establish eligibility lists so they can promote into positions more rapidly. None of the applications met the requirements for the fire inspector position. They will fill the position with a temporary assignment. Two recently hired fire radio dispatchers resigned. They put in a request to fill one position. EMERGENCY OPERATIONS DIVISION Operations: They had a tsunami warning. They did a mandatory recall of the shift that was supposed to show up at 8:00 a.m. the next day. This is the third event that they had in the last four years. It used to be where everybody would show up for work, but they started a system of holding a shift back. They are fortunate that this last event didn’t have any need for rescue. The public evacuation went smoothly. Personnel were sent to Maui for ladder company training. Special Operations: BC Kosaki will be meeting in Nanawale to provide evacuation information to the community. Rescue: The Sayer equipment has been distributed. Rescue personnel have started to do rescue training. They got approval for the blue link capability so personnel can use their aircraft equipment to make contact with someone on a cell phone. SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION EMS Bureau: They assisted with the Ironman event in Kona. Two personnel were assigned to assist. Ironman has donated a lot to the Fire Department and to the community, and they wanted to be prepared to assist as needed. Training Bureau: They started a firefighter recruit class. Two people have already left. One left for personal reasons. Another was injured during training and was not able to compete the training. It was considered workers compensation. He was put back on the list. Volunteer Training Bureau: They are actively pursuing five apparatuses from California which will be a great asset to East and West Hawai‘i. They had an $80,000 SAFER grant for personnel to attend training, but only two people applied. They are now working with FEMA to use the money for equipment instead.