Chippewa Township Fire
Department
464 Gates
Street
Doylestown, Ohio
44230 |
New weather; Siren
info
; House numbers
A KIND REMINDER TO MOVE RIGHT FOR SIRENS AND LIGHTS
Emergency Calls - Call
911
Fire
Station -
330-658-2300
Non-Emergency
Fire Department
Dispatch Calls -
330-658-2222
Ron Browning, Fire
Chief
Concerned about a loved one who may not
be able to get to the phone to call 911?
Call the
Chippewa Twp. Fire Dept. about the "Seconds Count"© 911 Emergency Strobe Light
and Panic Button System. This personal pendent system allows your loved
one to call 911 and talk directly to the dispatcher for expedited emergency
service. Along with the call directly to the 911 dispatcher the
system activates an emergency strobe light positioned in a street side window so
the appropriate emergency service may quickly find the correct house. Check with
the fire department for the cost.
The Fire Dept. business phone number is
330-658-2300. The station is normally manned from 6:00 AM until 8:00
PM, Sunday thru Saturday.
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GREEN REFLECTIVE HOUSE NUMBERS HELP US FIND AND HELP
YOU! |
|
Call the secretary at
330-658-2112
to order a reflective house number
sign.
The Fire Dept. will
continue to install the house number signs, weather
permitting. |
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Weather Warning Siren Information
Test the siren system with full sound at least once a month on the
first Saturday of the month at noon. An
actual warning will be a continuous sounding of the sirens for three
minutes.
Upon hearing an actual warning, please turn on
your weather radio to determine the reason for the warning and take
appropriate action. Most weather warnings warrant taking cover in
a tornado type protection. This type of protection is generally in
the basement or in a small totally enclosed interior room such as
a closet or bath room. In any case, stay away from
windows.
New ISO info -
Chippewa Township Fire Department achieves the Class 5 rating for
Doylestown. This is a great step for a volunteer fire department. - ISO
is the acronym for Insurance Services Office, which is the fire
department grading agency for insurance companies. Currently Doylestown is
an ISO class 5 for insurance policy rating. The best
possible class is class 1; only Cincinnati with the best water supply
system will get such a
classification. The worst possible is a class
10; areas with no fire departments will get this classification. An area with
no fire hydrants, but with a fire department will be class 9.
Insurance agents have some latitude in classifying a property where there
are no fire hydrants, but do have a fire department, if that property
is deemed to be close enough to a hydrant and if the fire department
has sufficient water carrying capacity. The
Chippewa
Township Fire Department can respond with 5,000
gallons, mutual aid providing many more gallons. We underwent a
classification study in December 1999 and the results were gratifying.
We expected to maintain our class 5 rating, but were hoping we
bettered ourselves to a class 5. We did achieve the Class 5
rating. This was the result of much work on the part of your
volunteer fire department. We have worked since 1985 to achieve this
rating with a great deal of that work being done in the last year, tying
down all the little nitty gritty items that ISO looks for.
We immediately started working toward our next rating review when we expect
to improve our rating in the non hydranted areas of the Township. The
blue reflective "DRY HYDRANT" signs that are going up in the township
are part of that effort to improve the non hydranted area
rating. These signs are to direct mutual aid fire departments to the
"dry fire hydrants" that have been installed. A "dry hydrant" is
a piping connection to a lake, pond, or other water source
so that a fire truck may suck water from the water source to
transport to a fire scene. We have also
developed a system of
a temporary water piping system from the dry hydrant at Dohner's Lake
to the Galehouse Lumber / Trusco area. We also have instituted
a more formal inspection program to meet the requirements of ISO.
Buildings where people gather, such as schools and churches are on our
priority list for a formal inspection. As time moves on all businesses
open to the public will receive a formal inspection.
Additional personnel on the department have been trained to do
this work.
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After dialing 9-1-1, stay on the line even if you do
not hear it ringing, the system has a lot of work to do before the
call goes through to the dispatcher (a silent wait of ten
(10) seconds is possible before you will hear the line ringing -
that's long enough to say the Lord's Prayer)
After dialing 9-1-1, stay on the line until the
dispatcher answers, even if the call was a mistake, the dispatcher must
handle each and every call in some manner. If you hang up you may end
up with a police officer or a firefighter at your door.
The silent wait allows the system to gather the
following information for the dispatcher:
your telephone number, your
address, the name the phone is registered in, the proper Police
service for your address, the proper Fire service for your address, and the
proper EMS service for your address.