Marion County Fire Chief s Association Rescue Task Force Committee Meeting Minutes For: January 12, 2005 Call to Order The meeting was called to order by Coordinator Bill Brown @ 0909 hours. Attendance/Roll Call Kenny Whitcomb City of Lawrence FD Ryan Marquette Eli Lilly Beech Groove FD Darryl Slevin Eli Lilly Decatur TFD Jim Underwood Indianapolis Airport FD Bill Brown Indianapolis FD Doug Evans Franklin TFD Lawrence TFD Harry Holbrook Perry TFD Gerald George Pike TFD Tom Neal Warren TFD Warren Todd Washington TFD Matt Stewart Wayne TFD Anne McCurdy Search Team K-9 Scott McCarty Larry Byerly Rescue Team Manager Medical Team Manager Technical Search Team Manager Task Force Coordinator s Report: Bill Brown Bill announced that the 53 foot trailer and the 2 nd semi are at Peterbuilt of Indianapolis. When the Task Force receives these two items that will complete the first phase of the transportation package. The second transportation package consisting of the (2) gators, (1) F350 4x4 pickup and (2) Expeditions have been ordered. We have taken delivery of the (2) gators in December and have had the beds lined with a product called Line-X. Bill also, indicated that the trucks will need to have the Qualcomm system in place in the vehicles prior to delivery. The FEMA Patch was expected to be in this month. But, upon further examination, the program office found that the patch design did not match the draft design. So the new patch will be delayed yet again. A letter was sent to Mike Tamalow from Public Safety Director Turner with drawing their support for Battalion Chief Mickey Radez as a member of the Legal Working Group. We have received the initial claims back from FEMA on the Republican National Convention and the four (4) hurricanes. We will be filling an appeal for one of the claims. The appeal will need to be received at the program office by next week.
Task Force Deputy Coordinator s Report: Warren Todd Announced that Bill will go before the City County Council s Public Safety Board tonight to move some monies around from one spending category to another. This will allow us to begin the purchase process of several high ticket items that will total approximately $150K. Warren indicated that the Operations Mobilization Plan is nearly complete. He will be burning copies of the plan onto CD s and giving one to each Task Force Leader. A hard copy will be in Bill s office and another one will be placed in the deployment box. Warren also indicated that January is a financial reporting month to the program office. The information needs to be at the program office by January 31 st. Training Coordinator s Report Tom Neal: Tom passed out the training calendars for January and February. He spoke on the recon exercise with the Indiana National Guard on February 5 th. We will be sending down a recon team plus an over site team to Muscatatuck for a hostage scenario. This will be the first time that we have had a deployment in conjunction with the National Guard and we hope to have future deployment exercises with them. Tom handed out a draft narrative with vignettes for the scenario and asked team managers to get back with him by Friday January 14 th. I still need (1) Structure Specialist for this exercise. Tom spoke on the online training for NIMS. FEMA has requested that all personnel have the online IS-700 NIMS Introduction completed by March 1 st. In addition, the National Fire Academy and the Emergency Management Institute has just released the IS-800 National Response Plan course is now online as well. Tom reported that at the present time, according to the program office, we are ahead of all other teams in the system of meeting the position description requirements for NIMS training. We will also be looking at holding a NIMS 400 level course in March. Tom announced that February 11 th & 12 th Quarterly training will be held at City of Lawrence training facility on Lee Road. We will be covering respiratory protection. Included in this training we will cover half face respirator (APR), full face (PAPR), and the Scott air pack. Once the class room session is completed we will be sending people through the SCBA confidence course in the fire tower. It should be fun for all. Please bring with you your knee pads and full face and half face respiratory protection. Logistics will be there to issue full face respiratory protection to those that have not yet been assigned. Tom also passed out certifications for those members that completed the Rescue Technician School in 2004. The certifications were for the structural collapse and trench modules. Department Representatives will be handing those out to their respective members. Tom passed around a new patch design that was drawn up by Doug Evans of Franklin Township. The new design places our current patch in side an outline of the State of Indiana. The patch will encompass the philosophy of a regional team concept. The design needs final approval by the over site committee prior to release for distribution. Task Force Leader: Gerald George Gerald asked that team managers submit a 2005 rotation schedule for deployment matrix, including Type I and Type III deployments.
Rescue Team Manager s Report: Scott McCarty Scott handed out a report on rescue probationary team members that the Rescue Team Managers have recommended to be upgraded to full deployment status. They are as follows: Delbert Brinson Doug Evans Franklin Larry Speck Eric Strohacker Lawrence Twp. Dale Bradley Brian Wisehart Lawrence Twp. Jerome McClung Sean Wood Perry Shane Hoskins Carl Woodridge Lawrence Twp. James Jocobi Rob McClara Steve Ross Steve Scales Ken Sickles Wayne Mike Boyd Jr. Warren The following probationary members were submitted to have their probationary status extended. They are as follows: Andrew Hearrell Franklin Dave Bogemann Scott Huff Steve Russell Jr. Lawrence Twp. James Lucas Decatur Matt Starika Lawrence Twp. Scott also handed out a detailed rotational schedule for all rescue personnel for type I and type III deployments. Scott will be sending this out to all rescue personnel. The rotation covers the entire year. Search Team Manger s Report: Technical Search: Technical search team training will be January 15 th @ 0900 hrs. Search Team Manger s Report: Search K-9: Anne McCurdy Anne thanked the McCarty Family for volunteering to be victims at their latest training. Anne spoke on the success of the frequent flier program. It has had a great response to this point. Anne indicated that she and Gary Hay will be traveling to Texas this weekend for the FEMA K-9 evaluation. We will be having two teams travel to Texas for the evaluation. Logistics Team Manager s Report: Jim Underwood Jim reported that there will be a work detail at 0900 hrs @ the cache site on? The City of Indianapolis Controller s office is coming in to look at all equipment in the system over $1,000.00. Kenny announced that no members will be allowed to drive the new gators until properly trained. Rick McKinney will be providing a class on operating and safety of off road vehicles. Kenny also mentioned that the second equipment cache is about half in. We expect more to start coming in about the middle of January. Hazmat Team Manager s Report:
No Report Medical Team Manager s Report: Larry Byerly Larry spoke on last months training. They still need to have the medical room cleaned and continue to go through the medical equipment cache. Communications Specialist s Report: No Report Old Business: None New Business: A motion was made by Kenny Whitcomb to approve the new patch. The motion was second and the motion carried. It will now be presented to the Over Sight Committee for final approval. Bill spoke on the regional participation. He indicated that the City of Indianapolis legal department is currently working on a MOU s for any new participating agencies outside Marion County. Participating agencies would have to sign a participating agreement with the City of Indianapolis with each department s fire chief prior to any involvement of their firefighters. The task force will open the application process beginning February 1 st for all phase I applications. Phase II application process will open March 1 st and close March 30 th. We hope to have a Task Force Orientation training in March. Gerald spoke on the Indiana Board of Firefighter Standards. They meet on January 10 th and passed the language for the new State Technical Rescue certification process. It will now go the States Attorney General for approval. It will go into effect April 1 st. The new language adds certifications at the Awareness, Operations and Technician level for all Technical Rescue disciplines covered in NFPA 1670 and NFPA 1006. Motion made to adjourn the meeting 1043hrs.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER January: 18 th & 19 th : Hazmat Team Training @ 0830 hrs 18 th : Work Detail @ 0900 hrs 21 st : Medical Team Training @ 0800 hrs 22 nd : Family Support Reverse Raffle 23 rd - 28 th : FEMA Safety Officer s Course; San Diego, CA. 29 th : Canine Team Training 30 th - Feb. 3 rd : FEMA WMD Working Group Meeting February 5 th : Recon Exercise with the Indiana National Guard (For those involved) 8 th : Logs Team Training @ 1800 hrs; Cache site 9 th : Monthly Meeting @ 0900 hrs 11 th & 12 th : Quarterly training at IVY Tech and City Lawrence Training Tower @ 0900 hrs 14 th & 15 th : Hazmat Team Training @ 0830 hrs 16 th : Work Detail @ 0900 hrs 19 th : Tech Search Training 25 th : Plan/TIS Training Course @ 0900 hrs 28 th : TFL Meeting in Washington D.C.