Post by kyfirephoto on Jun 23, 2009 7:41:35 GMT -5
Interesting development in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati as the Blue Ash, Sharonville, Sycamore Township and Loveland - Symmes fire departments have announced a new collaborative operating agreement. The community boundaries in this area are really haphazard so this partnership is designed to enhance response times and department coordination beyond the standard mutual aid relationships.
The full press release is detailed below:
"LSFD Announces Partnership-Northeast Fire Collaborative
Friday, June 19, 2009 - Press Release
Date: June 18, 2009
To: Cincinnati Outlet Media
From: Otto J Huber, Fire Chief LSFD,
Ralph Hammonds, Fire Chief City of Sharonville,
William Jetter, Fire Chief Sycamore Township,
Rick Brown Fire Chief, City of Blue Ash
Subject: Northeast Fire Collaborative
Effective immediately the communities of Blue Ash, Loveland, Sharonville, Sycamore and Symmes Township’s announce the creation of the Northeast Fire Collaborative. The Fire collaborative joins the assets of five communities and eleven fire stations to support a comprehensive effort to enhance fire protection services to their respective communities.
This agreement joins safety forces to provide safer fire ground operations, smarter business operations and a sensible approach to meeting mandates all while providing fiscal responsibility to their taxpayers.
While maintain each communities autonomy these departments have agreed through policies, standard operating guidelines how these communities will train firefighters together, respond to emergencies together utilizing the closest station to the emergency approach and work toward better fiscal responsibility by sharing assets, conducting group purchasing and providing for standardization .
The communities involved place a high priority on the safety service we provide to our residents. Through these efforts we will bring to bear the full response capabilities of eleven fire stations and over 300 professionals on a daily basis. Our residents will experience an enhanced response to their calls for assistance all the while knowing their fire departments are spending their tax dollars wisely.
We are in hope that this collaboration will spawn more communities to take a similar approach or join in our group."
The full press release is detailed below:
"LSFD Announces Partnership-Northeast Fire Collaborative
Friday, June 19, 2009 - Press Release
Date: June 18, 2009
To: Cincinnati Outlet Media
From: Otto J Huber, Fire Chief LSFD,
Ralph Hammonds, Fire Chief City of Sharonville,
William Jetter, Fire Chief Sycamore Township,
Rick Brown Fire Chief, City of Blue Ash
Subject: Northeast Fire Collaborative
Effective immediately the communities of Blue Ash, Loveland, Sharonville, Sycamore and Symmes Township’s announce the creation of the Northeast Fire Collaborative. The Fire collaborative joins the assets of five communities and eleven fire stations to support a comprehensive effort to enhance fire protection services to their respective communities.
This agreement joins safety forces to provide safer fire ground operations, smarter business operations and a sensible approach to meeting mandates all while providing fiscal responsibility to their taxpayers.
While maintain each communities autonomy these departments have agreed through policies, standard operating guidelines how these communities will train firefighters together, respond to emergencies together utilizing the closest station to the emergency approach and work toward better fiscal responsibility by sharing assets, conducting group purchasing and providing for standardization .
The communities involved place a high priority on the safety service we provide to our residents. Through these efforts we will bring to bear the full response capabilities of eleven fire stations and over 300 professionals on a daily basis. Our residents will experience an enhanced response to their calls for assistance all the while knowing their fire departments are spending their tax dollars wisely.
We are in hope that this collaboration will spawn more communities to take a similar approach or join in our group."