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Firehouse recieves AED donation -- Posted by pvfd on Monday, September 3 2007
Over the Labor Day weekend the Pulteney Fire District held a small gathering at which time they received a check from Keuka Lake residents, Edward & Barbara Schusler, who donated money to purchase an AED for the firehouse. After attending many of the firemen’s community Sunday pancake breakfasts, Mr. & Mrs. Schusler inquired about whether the fire department had an AED inside the firehouse. After speaking with Fire Department President Carl Stone and his wife, Lisa, on several occasions throughout the early breakfast season they decided that they would donate the money for such an invaluable purchase so that, in the unfortunate case that someone from the public or department becomes stricken with a heart attack, the AED would be at their fingertips.
The fire department also teamed up with Rural Health Community Systems who graciously supplied an alarmed AED box to mount on the wall in the entrance-way of the firehouse. If the box is opened to access the AED, an alarm sounds to alert others in the building to call 911 for help. It is the hopes of the fire department to equip the AED cabinet with an automatic dialer that will notify the Steuben County 911 Center that the AED cabinet door has been opened and to immediately dispatch the ambulance and law enforcement to investigate. This is particularly useful in the situations where additional people are not available to call for help, as well as, reducing the amount of time between the moment the cabinet door is opened and when the ambulance is called to respond.
Additionally, the Fire District and Ambulance Corp. recently received donations from North Country Contractors and Gibson Excavating that were used to purchase rescue disks that have been placed in all of the fire chiefs’ vehicles and all fire and ambulance apparatus. The rescue disk is a Frisbee-style plastic disk that has approx 100 feet of high tensile rope, used as a life saving, throwable device for water rescues. In addition, two disks were purchased to be dedicated for use on their fire/rescue boat. The fire department is currently raising money towards their boat in hopes to have the boat on the water in the spring of 2008. Anyone wishing to make a donation toward the Fire/Rescue Boat Project can contact the firehouse by calling 607-868-3003 or by mail at P.O. Box 35, Pulteney, NY 14874.
The 911 system is now operational in Steuben County! -- Posted by Dan on Monday, May 16 2005
The 911 system is now operational in Steuben County! The 911 Center is now answering all land-based and cellular 911 calls.
The first two questions that will always be asked when you call are:
1. What is the location of the emergency (where is help needed)
2. What is the nearest cross street or cross road?
These two questions help us determine exactly where help is needed
Our 911 System has equal access for the hearing impaired and for those that speak a foreign language. For the hearing impaired our system automatically acknowledges the use of a TTD/TTY and the dispatcher will type questions to the person. For those that do not speak English, the dispatcher will use an interpreter system to speak to you.
If you dial 911 by mistake please do not hang up. Once you dial the last 1 in 911 we get your telephone number and address from the phone company and we will call you back. If your phone is busy or you do not pick up the phone we will send the appropriate law enforcement agency to determine why someone called 911.
As of today, Verizon Wireless is the only cellular carrier that is sending us the location of the calling person (Phase 2 information*). If you are a Verizon Wireless customer we will know where you are standing within a few hundred feet. As soon as the other cellular companies are able to send us the caller’s location we will let the public know.
*Cellular phases
* Phase 0 – We answer the call and the only information we have is your telephone number
* Phase 1 – We answer the call and we have your telephone number and we know which cellular tower you are using. (We need phase 1 to get to phase 2)
* Phase 2 – We answer the call and we have your telephone number and we know which cellular tower you are using. Approximately 15 seconds later the system can determine where you are located within several hundred feet. If you are in a moving vehicle we can determine where you are every 30 seconds.
Please make sure your house/business has the proper address posted on the front of the building. It is important that the emergency responders can locate your house/business quickly. If you have questions about your address or how to post your numbers properly call the administrative staff at the 911 Center at 607-664-2991.
For companies, schools and banks that have their own telephone switch in their building (commonly known as a PBX), please check to see where you are sending the call if someone from within your complex dials 911. Prior to this announcement your agency may have routed that call to a seven digit number. Now is the time to send all of those calls to 911. (This information pertains to large buildings or companies that have an internal telephone system). If your company, school, bank, etc. needs more information on determining where your 911 calls are going please call the 911 Deputy Director David Hopkins at 607-664-2991.
New M-17 In Service -- Posted by Dan on Monday, May 16 2005
We now have our new brush truck in service. It is a Ford F-350 4x4 that will be
utilized for all brush/grass fire calls along with fire police, rescue, 4x4 EMS
responses and severe weather emergencies.
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Pulteney received over twelve thousand dollars in federal funding to replace four of our aging Self Contained Breathing Apparatus along with 7 new portable radios for communication on the fire ground. The radios are in-service now and the SCBA's are expected to be delivered in a few weeks. This grant award follows a state grant award from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC grant included one thousand dollars in state funding that helped us purchase brush firefighting equipment.