1. CIMCity Commission Information Memo
ADMINISTRATIVE BRIEF FROM FIRE CHIEF KEVIN ROYSE July 8, 2019
UPDATES
Retirements:
Fire Captain Brent Barton 25 years of service (Effective 6-11-19)
Fire Engineer Matt Clark 27 years of service (Effective 6-19-19)
Promotions:
Fire Lieutenant Tait Walker to Fire Captain
Fire Engineer Allen Grant to Fire Lieutenant
Firefighter Paramedic Adam Carey to Fire Engineer
Firefighter/EMT Jason Wesoloski to Fire Engineer
Firefighter/EMT Nathan Komarek to Firefighter Paramedic
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On May 28 the department started a Fire Recruit class with four members. These
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recruits will graduate on July 12 allowing the department to return to full strength.
SFD VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
Fire fighters depend heavily on the performance capabilities of their vehicles when
delivering emergency services to protect life, property and the environment. The Salina
Fire Department has maintained an aggressi ve replacement schedule for all of its
assigned vehicles. A sound vehicle replacement program is important to all government
agencies regardless of size. It is generally accepted that fire apparatus, like all types o f
mechanical devices have a finite life. Apparatus and equipment that break down
frequently because of age or excessive use will lead to an in terruption in service to our
community. All of our vehicles are stagger ed in the replacement schedule in order to
avoid multiple replacement purchases in same year.
The department has establis hed and adopted benchmarks fo r our fleet replacement
policy that is based upon a co mbination of best practices and industry standards. We
consider both the safety of our fire fighters as well as vehicle pe rformance as guidelines
for our replacement program as well as recommendations from the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA) standards.
Fire Apparatus
NFPA standard # 1911 recommends that fire apparatus be on a planned replacement
schedule of 15 years front line service with another 5 years in reserve status for a total
of 20 years and then replaced. We move our fire apparatus to reserve status after 20
years of front line service and then 5 years as a reserve fo r a total of 25 years before
replacing.
Our department currently maintains 3 front line Fire Engines and 2 Reserve Fire
Engines.
Fire Engine
We have 2 front line Ladder Trucks and 1 Reserve Ladder Truck.
Ladder Truck
We have 1 front line Heavy Rescue Truck and 1 Reserve Rescue Truck.
Heavy Rescue Truck
Ambulances
We remove our Ambulances from service at 100,000 miles and 8 years of service.
We have 4 front line Ambulances and 3 Reserve Ambulances.
Ambulance
Staff Vehicles
We remove our staff vehicles from servic e at 150,000 miles and our Fire Prevention
vehicles at 100,000 miles and 10 years of service.
We have 6 Staff vehicles and 3 Fire Prevention vehicles.
Battalion Chief Vehicle (Staff Vehicle)
Medical Officer Vehicle (Staff Vehicle)
Fire Prevention Vehicles
A fire apparatus is an emergency vehicle that must be relied on to transport fire fighters
safely to and from an incident and to op erate reliably and proper ly to support the
mission of the fire department. A piece of fire apparatus that breaks down at any time
during an emergency operation not only compromises the success of the operation but
might jeopardize the safety of the fire fighters relying on that apparatus to support their
role in the operation. An old, worn-out, or poorly maintained fire apparatus has no role
in providing emergency services to a community.
We could not maintain such a replacement program without the skills of our Emergency
Vehicle Technician Casey Stephenson. Casey is nati onally certified mechanic in both
fire apparatus and ambulances and is invaluable in the maintenance and repair of the
entire fire department fleet of 28 vehicles. Due to Casey’s abilities and knowledge we
have minimal out of service time for our front line apparatus.
Our fleet replacement program is under the direction of Fire Battalion Chief Scott Abker.