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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmergency Services Committee Minutes 04.24.2023MINUTES CITY OF LAUREL EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMITTEE MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2023 The Emergency Services Committee meeting was called to order at 6:00pm on Monday, April 24, 2023, by Chair Heidi Sparks Members Present: Heidi Sparks- Chair, Iry Wilke- Vice Chair, Richard Klose, Jodi Mackay, Jim Irwin, Bruce McGee (tardy) Others Present: Police Chief Stan Langve, Ambulance Director Lyndy Gurchiek, Troy Charbonneau- Ambulance Dept, Interim Fire Chief JW Hopper (tardy), Bridger Fournier Public Input: General Items 1. Approval of Emergency Services Committee minutes of March 27, 2023. Iry Wilke moved to approve the minutes; Richard Klose seconded- Motion carried 5-0 New Business 2. Update from Emergency Departments a. Police Department Chief Langve — Report attached i. Items to note: 1. 2 Overtime shifts in the morning and evening- CHS is paying for the overtime expense 2. No significant increase in traffic on the back roads between Laurel and Billings with the turnaround b. Ambulance Director Lyndy Gurchiek— Reports attached i. Items to note: 1. "New" Ambulance is almost ready to get into service. This will become the 2"d out vehicle 2. Community medicine poviders should be wrapping up clinical time over the next month 3. Seasonal staff should be starting in June and working on interviews to add to seasonal staff c. Interim Fire Chief JW Hopper- Report attached i. Items to note: 1. New officers have been elected, Kelly has the updated Org Chart for the Volunteer Fire Department 2. New wildland fire engine has been delayed now until September, originally was supposed to be received in March 3. Engine #2 repairs were on the electrical. This has been completed 4. Paperwork is turned in and the trucks should be inspected this month for the DNRC Severity Staffing, then will be ready to go for wildland fire season Old Business: Other Items: 3. Safety Mill Levy Update: a. Subcommittee being formed for community education. Anyone interested is serving can contact City Attorney Michelle or Mayor Dave Announcements 4. Next Meeting will be Monday, May 22, 2023, at 6:OOpm in Council Chambers Meeting adjourned at 6:30pm April 24th, 2023 aurel Police IE)epartment 215 W. 1St Street Laurel, Mt. 59044 - Phone 406-628-8737 - Fax 406-628-4641 Chief of Police Stanley J Langve Emergency Services Report April 2023 For the reporting period of March 27th to April 20, 2023, the FAP had 913 calls for service. This is up 32.9 % (226 total calls) from the same reporting period in 2022. The total crimes reported for the year to date is 380. This is up slightly from last year's 2,827 calls for service and just 7 short of last year's 387 crimes reported. The numbers are very similar to the previous two years; however, they are significantly higher from 2020 which had 2,476 calls for service and 299 crimes reported year to date. This follows two slower months that I believe were influenced by cold stormy weather and single officer shifts. The increase in calls for service and the ensuing increase in crimes reported is obviously influenced by the increase in traffic from the refinery turnaround. Overtime shifts were authorized starting the 13th of April and will continue through the peak period of the turnaround. Currently, two officers are authorized for the OT shifts in the morning and evenings. We will make adjustments as activities vary. In the month of April Officer Seibert graduated from the academy and completed the final phase of his Field Training. We were able to get Officer Scott into Law Enforcement Officer Basic #181. He is anticipated to graduate July Oh and will then begin his FTO. He will not be on patrol by himself until the first part of October. Sergeant Anglin has completed week two of the three- week Executive Leadership course at the academy. Officers Spencer and Featherly were also at the academy this month. They attended the weeklong Standardized Field Sobriety and Intoxylizer certification training. Officer Featherly attended a second week to complete his Legal Equivalency training to qualify for his P.O.S.T. certifications with the State of Montana. Respectfully, Chief Langve Laurel PDme-nt 2 - W. 1 Street Laurel, Mt. X9044 Phone 406-628-8737 • Fax 406-628-4641 Total Calls Printed on April 24, 2023 [CFS Date/Time] is between '2023-03-27 00:00' and '2023-04-24 23:59' and [Primary Incident Code ->Code : Description] All Code : Description Page 1 of 5 Totals 10-15 : With Prisoner 0 0 Abandoned Vehicle 28 28 Agency Assist 60 60 Alarm - Burglary 11 11 Alarm - Fire 3 3 AMB: Ambulance 70 70 Animal Complaint 6 6 Area Check 6 6 Assault 3 3 Bad Checks 0 0 Barking Dog 3 3 Bomb Threat 0 0 Burglary 1 1 Child Abuse/Neglect 0 0 Civil Complaint 11 11 Code Enforcment Violation 1 1 Counterfeiting 0 0 Page 1 of 5 Code : Description Totals Criminal Mischief 9 9 Criminal Trespass 3 3 Cruelty to Animals 0 0 Curfew Violation 3 3 Discharge Firearm 0 0 Disorderly Conduct 7 7 Dog at Large 24 24 Dog Bite 4 4 DUI : DUI Driver 5 5 : Duplicate Call 4 4 :Escape 0 0 Family Disturbance 16 16 Fight 3 3 FIRE : Fire or Smoke 18 18 Fireworks 0 0 Forgery 1 1 Found Property 3 3 Fraud 2 2 Harassment 3 3 Hit & Run 5 5 Identity Theft 0 0 Page 2 of 5 Code : Description Totals Indecent Exposure 2 2 Insecure Premises 1 1 Intoxicated Pedestrian 3 3 Kidnapping 0 0 Littering 1 1 Loitering 2 2 Lost or Stray Animal 11 11 Lost Property 3 3 Mental Health 0 0 Missing Person 2 2 Noise Complaint 4 4 Open Container 0 0 Order of Protection Violation 0 0 Parking Complaint 18 18 Possession of Alcohol 1 1 Possession of Drugs 0 0 : Possession of Tobacco 3 3 Privacy in Communications 1 1 Prowler 0 0 Public Assist 52 52 Public Safety Complaint 6 6 Page 3 of 5 Code : Description Totals Public Works Call 9 9 Report Not Needed 2 2 Robbery 0 0 Runaway Juvenile 2 2 Sexual Assault 3 3 Suicide 0 0 Suicide - Attempt 1 1 Suicide - Threat 5 5 Suspicious Activity 95 95 Suspicious Person 18 18 Theft 25 25 Threats 11 11 Tow Call 1 1 Traffic Accident 13 13 Traffic Hazard 7 7 Traffic Incident 18 18 TRO Violation 1 1 Truancy 1 1 T/S : Traffic Stop 243 243 Unattended Death 0 0 Unknown - Converted 0 0 Page 4 of 5 Code : Description Totals : Unlawful Transactions w/Minors 0 0 Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle 0 0 Vicious Dog Warrant 4 4 10 10 Welfare Check 21 21 Totals 913 913 Page 5 of 5 Laurel Emergency Services Report created 4/24/23: 2020 2021 1090 requests for service 159 times LEMS was unavailable 72 times AMR was unavailable 288 responses in Ward 5=27% of calls outside of the city of Laurel Recent Month Summary: March 2023: 1228 requests for service 135 times LEMS was unavailable 34 times AMR was unavailable 318 responses in Ward 5=26% of calls outside of the city of Laurel Requests 102 Missed Calls 9 = 9% Shortest Delay 17 minutes Longest Delay 52 minutes Average Delay 32 minutes Fire Driver Available 8 times City Driver Available 2 times QRU Response With 1 Provider 3 times ** On A Previous Call 0 time No Crew/ Provider Available 6 times AMR Transported or Responded 8 times Red Lodge Transported 0 times HELP Flight Transported 0 times Columbus Transported 1 times Joliet Transported 0 time Park City Transported 0 times Beartooth Ambulance 0 times PD Assisted Pt or Transported 0 times FD Assisted Pt no transport 0 times POV Transport 0 times Refusal or no transport 0 times YCSO Transported 0 times MHP Transported 0 times **0 times the QRU responded and the patient refused / no transport to hospital or no patient found 24 responses in Ward 5 = 24 % of calls outside of the city of Laurel 2022 1238 requests for service 177 times LEMS was unavailable 48 times AMR was unavailable 351 responses in Ward 5=29% of calls outside of the city of Laurel 2023 Running Totals Other Reporting Information *correction made after report given -the new "used" ambulance — it has received all of the mechanical issue updates, cleaned from top to bottom and stocked. Striping quote is scheduled and once that is done it will be ready to go. The plan is to replace our back up ambulance with it, Care 2, and then Care 2 will be parked in the back of the station and able to be used as a back up when one of our others is out for maintenance etc. -we presented about Laurel EMS at the LEPC meeting in April. Troy continues to be involved with the monthly committee meetings -crews have been working hard on cleaning up our station and reorganizing -2 community medicine providers are working on completing their clinical time at StVs walk in clinic. One of them should be done in the next 2 weeks. -legal blood draw training is under way and implementation should be this week -2 new volunteer EMTs in training should be through the driving portion at this week and start on the patient care end. Two of our seasonal EMTs should be available starting in June. Will work on interviews for hiring a couple more volunteers. -1 full time employee still out on light duty, getting better but still waiting for decision on rehab vs surgery -working on updating policy and procedures -excited to be working towards education for the citizens for the mill. Again, thank you all so much for your support. January February March April May June July August September October November December Total 2023 Requests 107 98 102 307 Missed Calls 6 10 9 25 Shortest Delay (minutes) 25 10 17 10 Longest Delay (minutes) 28 42 52 52 Average Delay (minutes) 26 30 32 29 Fire Driver Available 22 14 8 44 City Driver Available 2 3 2 7 QRU Response w 1 Provider 0 0 3 3 On A Previous Call 6 6 0 12 No Crew / Provider Available 0 4 6 10 AMR Transported or Responded 6 7 8 21 Columbus Transported 0 1 1 2 Joliet Transported 0 1 0 1 Park City Transported 0 0 0 0 Red Lodge Transported 0 0 0 0 Beartooth Transported 0 0 0 0 HELP Flight Transported 0 0 0 0 POV Transport 0 0 0 0 PD Assisted Pt or transported 0 1 0 1 FD Assisted Pt no transport 0 0 1 1 YCSO Transported 0 0 0 0 MHP Transported 0 0 0 0 QRU/AMR, Refusal or No Patient 0 0 0 0 Responses in Ward 5 43 26 24 93 Other Reporting Information *correction made after report given -the new "used" ambulance — it has received all of the mechanical issue updates, cleaned from top to bottom and stocked. Striping quote is scheduled and once that is done it will be ready to go. The plan is to replace our back up ambulance with it, Care 2, and then Care 2 will be parked in the back of the station and able to be used as a back up when one of our others is out for maintenance etc. -we presented about Laurel EMS at the LEPC meeting in April. Troy continues to be involved with the monthly committee meetings -crews have been working hard on cleaning up our station and reorganizing -2 community medicine providers are working on completing their clinical time at StVs walk in clinic. One of them should be done in the next 2 weeks. -legal blood draw training is under way and implementation should be this week -2 new volunteer EMTs in training should be through the driving portion at this week and start on the patient care end. Two of our seasonal EMTs should be available starting in June. Will work on interviews for hiring a couple more volunteers. -1 full time employee still out on light duty, getting better but still waiting for decision on rehab vs surgery -working on updating policy and procedures -excited to be working towards education for the citizens for the mill. Again, thank you all so much for your support. LAUREL FIRE DEPARTMENT 215 West 1st Street • Laurel, Mt •59044.Office 406.628.4911 • Fax 406.628.2185 Emergency Services Meeting 3/27/2023 Calls- • Responded to 23 calls for Month of March. Training- • Help Flight Training • Maintenance on Equipment/Apparatus • After Action Review (Cotter's Fire) • Car Fires Class Rom. • Live Car Fire Training (4/26/2023 @ 6PM) • Total Training for hours to date for 2023- 0 1369 Hours • Attended LEPC meeting with Troy and Lindy Department News- • Current Numbers 0 37 Members ■ 5 Rookie School o New Officers have been selected for the department. • New Truck Update o Waiting on the box, should be ready in September. • New Lights should be completed in May. • Engine #2 Repairs completed. • Lots of burn permits. • Late wildland season. • Tender Response in City. • Interstate work- • Delays in response. o Access issues when responding. • DNRC Staffing - o Chief Certifications. o EFF Packets. • Iso Certification - o Remained a 10 this year. • Hose Test- • We be doing hose tests in the next 2 months. • Misc.- o Working on DNRC Grant with Michele. o Working on District Contracts with Michele.