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engine will be requested each year, allowing the depart
ment to keep them for 17 to 20 years. Preventative
maintenance and accountability programs also were
developed to track vehicles from purchase date to retire
■j**»lifeFlight landed in Forsyth County in December. The
helicopter settled at fire headquarters on
•' Sdttingdown Road, and later will move to its permanent
/‘Home at the new Baptist Medical Center • Cumming. A
.»* full-time crew, consisting of a pilot, medic and nurse,
from the station five days a week. Any public
agency such as a sheriff’s office or fire department can
the emergency helicopter into service and on-board
£< can treat and transport up to two patients.
jjVpifeFlight, a service of the Georgia Baptist Health
System, has safely transported more than 10,000
})dtien ts since the hospital system flew its first mission
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A shortage of manpower forced the recall of off-duty career firefighters to this January home fire
BENNETT from 10F
'•' as a furniture craftsman to make ends meet.
’’ Since then, he has watched the department grow to
';3O paid career firefighters and a volunteer force
' ‘ exceeding 200.
‘ Firefighters currently man 15 stations throughout
the county, with the addition last year of Station No.
-15 on Ga. 20 East. Construction crews also are
-'putting the finishing touches on Station No. 10,
tohich is being relocated to Old Atlanta and James
Burgess Road in an effort to shorten response times.
i • Getting a new station and finding the personnel to
staff it is never easy. It took “everybody and their
w -brother” to build the fire headquarters on Settingdown
yjldad only four years ago, Bennett recalls.
County firefighters now handle an average of 5,000
’PJalls a year. In addition to putting the wet stuff on the
Jjed stuff, firefighters get called to the scene of many
r’$ ar accidents. If accident victims get trapped in a
firefighters get them out with the Jaws of
yiife, and if lighting strikes or a tornado rips through
firefighters respond. However, despite the rise
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“unexpected pleasure,” and Butler said residents have
greatly benefited from having the emergency helicopter
virtually in their backyard.
Other accomplishments for 1998 included inspection
of all fire hydrants in the county, and the development
of a plan to take over emergency medical services with
in two years. Many firefighters currently are enrolled in
EMT classes and the department could be in the black
with a county ambulance service in three years, Butler
said.
The department also began inspecting public build
ings and reviewing construction plans, a job previously
done by the state fire marshal. It completed 1,221
inspections and returned 549 building plans to cus
tomers last year.
Regardless of the size of the department, Butler said
the mission of the fire department will remain the
same: to provide a professional level of fire protection
as quickly as possible.
in serious calls, some residents still call 911 to report
» a frightened cat up a pine tree.
: “We get those calls, but we try for the most part not
to commit men and equipment,” Bennett says. “It
t really depends on the situation.”
And the situations are getting more serious. The
department really needs a hazardous materials team
to deal with construction mishaps, Bennett says.
Although the department annually receives 1 mill of
tax money from the county, which grows as the tax
base increases, Bennett thinks the department could
use more.
“Our call load continues to go up and we’re making
demands on the volunteers. It doesn’t generate
enough to pay additional firefighters,” he explains.
Surrounded in his office by dozens of antique fire
engines that he has collected over the years, Bennett
admits he greatly misses going out on calls, being a
part of the action.
“[But] you have to have someone to oversee and
direct,” he says.
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Zachry Bazzle
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