Fire Hall log shows 67 responses to incidents for Prince Rupert Firefighters through October

Monday night's Prince Rupert City Council Agenda featured a look at the work of the Prince Rupert Fire/Rescue Department in October, the documents from Fire Chief Jeff Beckwith included as part of the Consent Agenda for Monday.

The notes observed of 67 emergency Responses from the First Responders from First Avenue West's Fire Hall for October. 

 Among those calls were five fires, with two properties sustaining significant  damage in October, Fire Crews also responded to five motor vehicle incidents. 

That's about the same level of service as one year ago. Down significantly from 2019-2021.

Members of the Fire Hall also participated in Fire Service Act Inspections, with 143 conducted in October an indication that the Fire Department is back on track with their Inspection program compared to the COVID years and even pre covid times.

October was also Fire Prevention and Public Education Month and towards that the Fire Service participated in a number of school related events across the city.

Freighters also continued with their ongoing training work, as well as their maintenance program for their apparatus and equipment.

During the month of October, 34 in-house training sessions were conducted involving four gas detection training, EMR refreshers, CPR review, incident debriefing, forcible entry tactics, pump training, mask up drills, initial attack strategizing, RIT exercises, auto extrication, street familiarization and driver training for our new recruits. 

The Department hosted a two-day training event titled “First In, All Alone” provided through Dynamic Rescue. This training focused on tactics and strategies used by initial arriving fire crews when responding to fire and rescue situations.

The Dispatch Office at the Fire Hall handled 1,136 calls in October, the distribution of those call by the 811 Operators and Dispatchers looked as follows:

 

The Full report for Council can be reviewed from the Meeting Agenda here, starting on page 168.

While Fire Chief Jeff Beckwith was in attendance at the meeting,  Council members had no questions, nor observations from the report.

More from Monday's Council Session can be reviewed here.

A look at the work of Emergency Responders across the Northwest can be explored here.