Ambulance, fire reports and bids for week ending April 11

MOUND CITY – The Linn County Commissioners received reports from the ambulance and fire department services on Monday, April 13.

Fire Chief Randy Hegwald gave the weekly report. The report showed that there were six total calls for the past week which brings the yearly total up to 210 calls. The calls were two wildland fires, one emergency medical assist, one motor vehicle accident, and two power lines down.

Hegwald requested an executive session for 10 minutes on non-elected personnel, job performance with County Counselor Jacklyn Paletta, the two commissioners Alison Hamilton and Jim Johnson, and himself.

Then Hegwald asked the commissioners to approve Tommy Lawson as a probationary firefighter for the Prescott Fire Station pending pre-employment physical and drug screening. Lawson’s appointment will fill the 10th position out of the 15 that can be on that roster. The commissioners approved that appointment.

Hegwald asked the commissioners to approve Jim Stanley as a probationary firefighter for the Pleasanton Fire Station pending all pre-employment screenings. His position will be 20 out of the 22 approved for that roster. The commissioners approved Stanley’s appointment.

Hegwald presented six bids from suppliers for bunker gear. There were seven bids but one came in late. The bids the commissioners read were from:

• Dinges Fire Company for $94, 129.

• Dinges Fire Company for $97,229.

• Dinges Fire Company for $107,729.

• BSI Group for $88,079.

• First Fire gave bids by quality of equipment. Their good equipment was $40, 685, the better equipment is $49, 885 and their best is $66,265.

• Veridian Fire Protective Gear gave separate prices for coats $1,943, trousers, $1,590, escape belt $196.35.

Hegwald will take the bids and bring them back in a couple of weeks after he looks them over to see if they meet specs and he talks with sales representatives to see if they could bring down examples for the fire fighters to look at.

American Medical Response (AMR) operations manager Dawn Brooks gave the  report from April 1 through April 12 which showed there had been a total of 74 calls resulting in 24 transports. The average response time is 8 minutes 45 seconds. The calls by city were:

• Blue Mound, 2 calls, 1 transport

• Centerville, 2 calls, 1 transport

• Fulton, 0 calls, 0 transports

• Greeley, 0 calls, 0 transports

• La Cygne, 26 calls, 7 transports

• Fontana, 4 calls, 1 transport

• Lane, 0 calls, 0 transports

• `Linn Valley, 0 calls, 0 transports

• Mapleton, 0 calls, 0 transports

• Rich Hill, 0 calls, 0 transports

• Mound City, 13 calls, 5 transports

• Parker, 0 calls, 0 transports

• Pleasanton 25 calls, 8 transports

• Prescott, 2 calls, 1 transport

  
  

Response numbers and times for this time period by Commission Districts are:

District 1 – 30 responses, 9 transports, 7 minutes 52 seconds average response time

District 2 – 32 responses, 10 transports, 7 minutes 41 seconds average response time

District 3 – 12 responses, 5 transports, 14 minutes 8 seconds average response time