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Physical Address:
Page Fire Department
Public Safety Facility
808 Coppermine Road
Page, AZ 86040		 U.S. Mail Address:
Page Fire Department
Public Safety Facility
P.O. Box 1180
Page, AZ 86040		 Express Mail Address:
Page Fire Department
Public Safety Facility
808 Coppermine Road
Page, AZ 86040

Telephone: (928) 645-4340
Fax: (928) 645-4346
E-Mail: firechief@cityofpage.org


PAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT’S FRONT LINE APPARATUS

The City of Page Fire Department is founded on the fundamental principle that our staff are the foundation of this organization and that our Department can be no stronger than its membership. Being a member of the Page Fire Department is not just a job. It is a commitment to other Department members and to the citizens of Page. We are a group with selective membership, and everyone is a member because he/she wants to belong. The Page Fire Department will always strive to improve our level of service and commitment to one another and to the citizens we protect. As our city grows so shall our resolve to protect and serve our community. To accomplish this we will never fear change as that is the process for improvement. We will consider change as a regular, well-managed event. Our motto is "Proudly Serving the Citizens of Page." We do this in a professional manner striving always for excellence.

About Us
Recruitment Information
Full Time Employment
Reserve Firefighter Positions
Reserve Emergency Medical Services Positions
Equipment
Training Grounds
Burn Permits
ISO Rating
Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Policy
Firefighting
Emergency Medical Services

About Us

Fire Chief Larry Clark Asst. Fire Chief Tim D. Gilmore
Page Fire Chief Larry D. Clark, Sr. – Professional Degree (BS) in Wildlife Research, University of Wyoming. 43 years public service - U.S. National Park Service Ranger (ret. - sworn officer) 32 years and Page Fire Department 11 years. Graduate of Clark County NV Police Academy and holds numerous fire and EMS certifications from various agencies of the Federal Government and the states of Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Montana. Page Assistant Fire Chief Tim D. Gilmore – Degree (BA) in Public Administration, Northern Arizona University/University of Houston. Eight years with Ponca City (OK) Fire Department as FAD/Senior Paramedic, five years Paramedic FTO, Houston, TX, and one year Paramedic Shift Supervisor, Morgan County, CO. I.F.S.A.C. Certified FFI, FFII, Fire Officer I & Fire Instructor I.
Tim is married with two daughters, Moriah (14) and Shelby (12). Wife Kit is an Emergency Room Nurse (RN).

Administration
ADMINISTRATION: Fire Chief L. Clark, Fire Marshal Eric Sorensen, Office Mgr. Dellana Herrara and Asst. Fire Chief Timothy Gilmore

A-Shift B-Shift
A shift: FF Allen Lorensen, FF Dan Boyer,Engineer Dan Sarich,Capt. Robert Schwartz, Not pictured Derek Spence B SHIFT: FF Paul Jones,Capt. Jeff Reed,FF Thad Glover,FF Mike Wilkinson,Engineer PJ Marlow

C-Shift Chaplin Ron Graham
C shift: FF Julie Grimm, Engineer Jared Hansen, Capt. Dan O'Connor Fire Department Chaplin Ron Graham

Page Fire Department provides fire protection, emergency medical services, technical rescue, confined space rescue, and interfacility transport services for the City of Page and much of the surrounding area utilizing a combination of paid and reserve personnel. The Department - working out of a new state-of-the art Public Safety Facility located at 808 Coppermine Road - operates one 75 foot quint, three engines, four ambulances, two Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) units, 1 fast response truck, and various support vehicles. Page Fire Department has three stations; Station 1 and Headquarters are located in the Public safety Facility; Station 2 is an un-staffed station at the corner of 7th Avenue and North Navajo Drive; and Airport Station is an un-staffed station at the Municipal Airport. Numerous services are provided including Airport Rescue Fire Fighting services at Page Municipal Airport and Interfacility Medical Transports from the local area to destinations as far away as Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV. There are five units (two ambulances, one engine, one quint and one rapid response truck) equipped with extrication equipment (cutters, spreaders, rams, air lift bags, saws, and cribbing).

The City of Page is very remote. The closest city of any size is Flagstaff which is 135 miles to the south. The City of Page is located on a mesa surrounded by vast, rugged, and beautiful terrain with high cliffs, deep canyons, and extreme weather. The conditions make providing fire and EMS services an incredible challenge. Nearby Lake Powell extends for 180 miles up into the canyon lands of southern Utah and has over 1900 miles of shoreline.

With breathtaking scenery, national parks, and monuments in virtually every direction, the Page area is a popular tourist destination. In fact, nearly three million tourists from all over the world visit the area every year.

Because of the extreme distances, it is not uncommon for Page Fire Department units to provide mutual aide assistance as far as fifty miles away including areas of southern Utah and the Navajo Nation. Page's remoteness also means that having good working relationships with the other fire and EMS agencies in the area is vitally important. Page Fire Department personnel routinely work with the National Park Service (NPS), Big Water (Utah), and Greenehaven (Arizona) Fire Departments and the Navajo Generating Station (power plant) Fire Brigade. The local air ambulance service, Classic Lifeguard, is second to none. Classic Lifeguard operates two medical helicopters from its facility at the Page Municipal Airport.

Currently, Page Fire Department has nineteen full-time employees, one part-time employee, and approximately fifteen reserves. Besides the Chief, Assistant Chief, Fire Marshal, and Office Manager, there are 15 full time and 1 part-time fire/EMS personnel that keep the city staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The full time staff consists of 8 paramedics or student paramedics and 12 EMT’s. The Department handles approximately 1,500 calls per year with about 80% of the calls being medical in nature. Department Reserve fire training is held every Monday and Reserve EMS training is held every Wednesday evening. Additional training, including Firefighter I/II and basic Emergency Medical Technician courses, is provided through the local community college. Advanced training, such as Intermediate EMT and Paramedic courses, requires travel as far away as Phoenix.

Recruitment Information
Full Time Employment

Reserve Hiring

Have you ever wanted to be a firefighter? Are you a certified EMT, IEMT, or Paramedic? Do you want to be part of an organization that is committed to saving lives? If this sounds like you, please call or visit the Page Fire Department for information on how you can become a member of our team.

Reserve Firefighter Positions – Open until further notice

Position:
Reserve Firefighter Job Description:

On-call position. Carries assigned pager and responds to calls when required. Responds as a member of an Engine Company or crew to various types of fires, medical emergencies, physical rescues, and other emergency and non-emergency incidents. Work can be very difficult and dangerous at times. Job Requirements: Required to attend a minimum of two training drills per month. Required to sign up for a minimum of three Duty Crew shifts for minor calls per month. There are twelve hours per shift, 0600 to 1800 for day shift, and 1800 to 0600 for night shift. On-call at all times (when available) for Full Call-Outs or simultaneous calls.

Education Requirements:

Firefighters must have good general intelligence and the ability to read and write the English language. Necessary firefighting and rescue training is available through the department.

Physical Requirements:

Fire and rescue work can be extremely physically demanding at times. Firefighters must be in generally good health and in good physical condition. Candidates must pass written and physical agility tests, appear before an Interview Board and are interviewed by the Fire Chief before hiring.

Pay:

Reserve Firefighters are paid $9.66 per hour for calls and drills. Firefighters who are also EMS certified are paid correspondingly more. Firefighter/EMT’s are paid $10.89 per hour while Firefighter/Paramedics are paid $13.74 per hour.

Reserve Emergency Medical Services Positions – Open until further notice

Position:
Reserve EMT or Paramedic

Job Description:

On-call position. Carries assigned pager and responds to calls when required. Responds as a member of a Rescue Ambulance crew to various types of medical emergencies, physical rescues, fires, and other emergency and non-emergency incidents. Work can be very difficult and dangerous at times.

Job Requirements:

Required to attend two training drills per month. Required to sign up for a minimum of three Rescue Crew shifts per month. These are twelve hours per shift, 0600 to 1800 for day shift, and 1800 to 0600 for night shift. On-call at all times (when available) for Full Call-Outs or simultaneous calls.

Education Requirements:

EMS personnel must have good general intelligence, and the ability to read and write the English language. Current Arizona certification as an EMT or paramedic is required. Other training is available through the Department.

Physical Requirements:

EMS and rescue work can be extremely physically demanding at times. EMS personnel must be in generally good health and in good physical condition. Candidates must possess either a state or National Registry certification as an EMT or paramedic, pass a physical agility test, appear before an Interview Board, and be interviewed by the Fire Chief before hiring.

Pay:

Reserve EMT’s are paid $9.66 per hour for calls and drills. Reserve Paramedics are paid $12.77 per hour for calls and drills. EMS personnel who are also Firefighters are paid correspondingly more. Reserve EMS personnel are eligible to participate in inter-facility transports which are paid stipends depending on the destination of the patient.

Equipment:

Page Fire Department has 16 vehicles including a 1945 “war ready” Mack which is used as a parade truck. Following are the first out vehicles.

Medic 10
The first out ambulance is Medic 10 which is a 2003 E- 450 Ford AEV Type III Ambulance. This unit is used in town and for interfacility transports. It carries extrication equipment including a duel pump motor, a cutter, a spreader and ram plus air lift bags, cribbing, an air chisel, and a reciprocating saw. It has the capability of carrying two patients, one on the cot and one on the bench seat. This unit has full time tire chains so it can be sent out on interfacility transports when aircraft can not fly and/or the roads are snow packed.

Medic 15
The second out ambulance is Medic 15 which is a 2005 International Navistar Type I Medium Duty Ambulance. This unit is used for out of town calls and motor vehicle crashes. The unit has a winch, light tower, hydraulic electric generator, and two cots. It carries extrication equipment including a duel pump motor, a cutter, a spreader, a combo-tool (cutter-spreader), two rams, plus air lift bags, cribbing, an air chisel, several saws, and storage for four air cylinders to power the air chisel and inflate the air lift bags. It has the capability of carrying four patients, one on each cot, one on the bench seat and one on a back board which can be hung from the ceiling. It has an air system that drops the back of the truck when the back doors are opened and returns the truck to level when the back doors are closed. The main cot loads in the back doors and the second cot loads in a door on the right side. There is a bench seat, two CPR seats, and a swivel medic seat.

Medic 15
The first out engine will be Ladder 1 when it is placed on line. Ladder 1 will be white and decaled to match Engine 10. The unit is on a Spartan custom chassis with a 75 foot ladder. It has a front bumper hose well, Foam Pro 1600 foam system with a 20 gallon foam concentrate tank, 400 gallon water tank, 5000 watt Honda electric generator, six 4500 p.s.i. Viking SCBA, a full compliment of ground ladders and all the hoses, nozzles, hand tools, hand lights, and radios required by NFPA and ISO..
(Rosenbauer promotional photo – PFD’s new truck will be white and decaled to match Engine 10)

Medic 15
The second out engine is Engine 10 which is a 1994 Pierce Custom Pumper. This unit will be used as a second out engine in city upon the arrival of the new ladder truck. It will be the first out engine for out of city calls. It carries extrication equipment including a single pump motor, a cutter, a spreader, and a ram. It also has a handheld Thermal Imager. It has a 500 gallon water tank and a full compliment of ground ladders.

Medic 15
The first out Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) engine is Airport 1 which is a 2005 Rosenbauer Panther with a 1500 gallon water tank, 200 gallon foam concentrate tank, and a 500 pound dry chemical tank. It has a bumper turret, top turret, a 250 foot dual hand line which can supply foam and dry chemical at the same time, built in Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR), a forward looking recording camera to record the incident, a back up camera, light tower, and Global Positioning System (GPS). This unit is capability of speeds up to 45 mph over extremely rough terrain in pump and roll and 75 mph on the highway. It is a lovely lime yellow color as it was a grant by from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Training Grounds

Page Fire Department’s Fire Training Ground was closed several years ago. A new site has been selected next to the old training grounds in Industrial Park. The new area has been graded, reclaimed asphalt placed for road ways, two hydrants have been installed and the area fenced. The new training ground is triangular in shape covering about 2.5 acres. There will be two “Containers” positioned for burn buildings, a storage shed built, and several props developed in the spring of 2007. We hope to hold live fire burns again by the summer of 2007.

Burn Permits

1......Burn Permits are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. at the Records Office located in the Main Lobby of the Page Public Safety Facility, 808 Coppermine Road. Failure to have a permit on file may result in the unnecessary dispatching of police or fire units to check out the burn and can result in citations and/or billing for callout being issued to the responsible parties.

2......Only the burning of weeds is permitted. It is illegal to burn plastics, tires, garbage, limbs, rubber, trash, flammable liquids, asphalt roofing, wood scraps, etc. These items of waste must be disposed of in another appropriate and legal manner. Special burn permits are available from the County or State for unusual circumstances.

3.......No burning is allowed within 25 feet of a structure, fence, or vehicles or in:

4......Burning is allowed only during the following time periods:

5.....Burning that produces excessive smoke, or smoke or odors that are a health hazard is prohibited.
6......Burning is not permitted during weather inversions.
7......Page Fire Department has the authority to require the extinguishing of any permitted fire which is not being conducted properly or which becomes a safety or health hazard.

ISO Rating

Page Fire Department has a “6” ISO Rating. ISO (Insurance Services Office) is a non-profit organization that rates the efficiency of fire departments and supplies that information to insurance brokers for the setting of insurance rates for rental, residential, commercial, and industrial application. Insurance rates for all insurance companies are based in some manner on ISO rating. The best rating is a “1” and the worst is “10”. The rating is based on numerous complex factors ranging from the moment water is introduced into the municipal water system until it is pumped out a nozzle on a fire. ISO counts the number of feet of hose, nozzles, axes, etc.; the frequency that hydrants, hoses, ladders, and pumps are tested; the distance between fire hydrants, how far a building is from a hydrant, and how much water the hydrant flows; the training of permanent and reserve firefighters and their response time to incidents; and a wide variety of other factors. Very few departments are able to acquire a “1” rating. It is the goal of Page Fire Department to improve the ISO rating from a “6” to a “5” in the next three years. The new ladder truck, addition of Un-staffed Station 2, improved records keeping and transition from a volunteer to a career department with reserves should make that goal feasible. If you have any questions concerning the ISO rating or how it applies to your situation, you should contact your insurance broker as different companies use different methods to calculate the cost of insurance. For instance some commercial fees have changed because the department has a full time staff on 24 hours per day. If you have any questions concerning the local rating, please feel free to contact this department.

Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Policy

The City of Page is a Drug Free Workplace and Page Fire Department is a Tobacco Free Workplace with a Zero Alcohol Tolerance Policy (no alcohol consumption within the previous 8 hours).

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Page, AZ 86040
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