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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Emergency Services Committee meeting was called to order at 6:00pm on Monday,
February 24, 2025 by Chair- Heidi Sparks
Members Present: Heidi Sparks- Chair, Jodi Mackay- Vice Chair, Richard Klose, Iry Wilke,
Jamie Swecker, Bruce McGee
Others Present: Police Chief Stan Langve, Ambulance Chief Lyndy Gurehiek, Fire Chief JW
Hopper
Public Input:
General Items:
1. Approval of Emergency Services Committee minutes of January 27, 2025. Iry moved to
approve the minutes; Jodi seconded- Motion carried 6-0.
2. Update from Emergency Departments
a. Fire Chief Hopper- Report attached
i. Training taking place with Police Department and EMS
ii. County -Wide Protection Plan taking place this week
1. This is being put on by Billings, Laurel and Lockwood
2. This is allowing the department to move to Fuel Mitigation crews
iii. Shepherd participated in the Cold Water Rescue at South Pond
1. Shepherd is having a pond built that is bigger than Lake Elmo and
they do not have experience with water rescue
iv. Montana State Firefighters Memorial Meeting
1. Memorial is in June
2. There are 3 or 4 firefighters being added to the memorial and 2 are
local
3. Expect there will be a large turnout and will ask for volunteers to
serve lunch
b. Police Chief Langve- Report attached
i. Typo on the beginning of the report on increase
ii. All 15 positions filled
iii. Bruce McGeee has retired for the reserves after 15 years of service
iv. Fundraiser to purchase uparmor vests has started through Shield616
c. Ambulance Chief Gurehiek- Report attached
i. Only 1 call missed in January
ii. Significant issues with Care 1 and 2, which are the oldest ambulances
Care 3 is the main ambulance and is almost 10 years old and is at
180,000 miles
Ne�v Business:
Old Business:
3. Richard thanked Bruce for his service on the Police Reserves
Announcements:
4. Next Meeting will be Monday, March 24. 2025, at 6:00prn in Council Chambers
Meeting adjourned at 6:16pm
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215 Nest 1 st Street * Laurel, Mt ®59044®Office 406.628.4911 ® Fax 406.628.2185
Calls-
Responded to 53 Total Calls for 1/27/2025 — 2/24/2025.
Ambulance driver calls- 4
Total Hours on Calls-
o Firefighters — 497
o Officers — 292
o Combined Hours — 789
o Training Hours - 675 HRS YTD
Training-
• Joint Training with PD/EMS/Fire
o Vehicle and Apparatus Training.
o Getting Police Officers out vests and Firefighters out of air packs and bunker gear.
o K9 training.
o Stop the bleed.
• County Wide Protection Plan (Billings, Lockwood and Laurel)
o Open to the public.
o Dispatchers will be attending.
& Cold Water Rescue
o Joint Training with Shepherd Fire.
® Structure Fire
® Firefighters attending Industrial Fire Training with CHS.
® DNRC Training will continue over the next three months.
o Started registering for staffed stations.
o Completing Chiefs Certifications.
Rookie School Training-
® Vehicle Extrication
o Hands on and Practical
® Structure Fires
o Hands on and Practical
Department News-
® Current Numbers
o 35 Members
® 8 firefighters currently in various stages of rookie school.
® One rookie resigned for personal reasons related to work schedule.
® Yellowstone County Fire Chiefs Meeting (2/25/2025 in Huntley)
® Montana State Firefighters Memorial Meeting (2/25/2025 @ 1730 Laurel Fire Training Room)
Appointments
o Assistant Chief — Travis Nagel
o Battalion Chief— Corey McIlvain and Shane Willis
o Fire Marshal — Ryan Robertus
■ In March we will appoint the following.
• Captains
• Lieutenants
• Assistant Fire Marshal
• Deputy Fire Marshals
• Training Officer
• Maintenance Officer
• Misc,
o Winter Safety
o Leaking roof
o Maintenance on Trucks.
o DNRC Grunt
o New radios and pagers are here and in service.
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215 W. I" Street Laurel, Mt. 59044 ® Phone 406-628-8737 ® Fax 406-628-4641
Emergency Services Report February 24, 2025
For the reporting period of January 27" through February 24th, 2025, the FAP
received 685 Calls For Serve for a year -to -day date total of 685 that is an increase
from the 3 -year average of 642. For the reporting period we had sixty-six crimes
reported, down from the 3-year average of 84. 1 believe very cold temperatures are
a factor in this as Police calls have been markedly increased in the last week.
On the personal front, we are welcoming Austin Gearhart this week. He will begin
his FTO in March and we anticipate having him on his own by summer. This will
fill the 15 th Officer position that was budgeted nearly two years ago. We have had
a couple of milestone anniversaries in the department in February. Detective
Bryant was pinned for his 20 years of service and Captain Anglin received his
second star representing 10 years. I would like to acknowledge Reserve Officer
Bruce McGree, he recently resigned his position with nearly 15 years of service.
We are all very thankful for him and what he has given to the community.
We are working on wrapping up budget year 2024/2025 items and preparing for
this year's budget cycle. We are also beginning a fundraising drive to purchase
uparmor vests through Shield 616. This is the organization that was able to up
armor Billings Police.
Respectfully,
Chief Langve