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A12 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 FROM PAGE A1 FIRE: continued from page A1 STANFIELD AGREEMENT With the agreement, former Stanfield Chief Jim Whelan was trans- ferred to HFES as the di- vision chief of training, and a Hermiston para- medic has been stationed in Stanfield. Stanton said he was also busy last year preparing for the Novem- ber ballot measure to fully combine the two districts, and although the refor- mation effort ultimately failed, the agreement is still in effect. He said, by reducing the adminis- trative overlap, each dis- trict benefits: Hermiston receives a training chief, and Stanfield receives a paramedic. “The IGA, I think, is working really well,” he said. “Both boards have agreed to extend it anoth- er year, so that’s good.” ceived 3,669 total calls for service in 2014: 3,217 EMS calls and 452 fire and other related calls. “Our EMS runs were up 7 percent from the pri- or year, and ¿re calls were up 5 percent, so that led to a 6.5 percent total call vol- ume increase from 2013,” he said. “Some of that’s reÀective of taking on the Umatilla ambulance, ob- viously, but our volume continues to creep up, too. Usually, we expect some- where between 3 and 4 percent is about an aver- age of what it would crawl up a year. The calls kind of work with populations: As populations grow, so do calls.” Fire Station 2 at Highway 207 and Punkin Center Road in June. He said the repairs were completed late last year, along with some additional upgrades to the old facility. “Our interns staff that (station), and they got moved in right after Christmas,” he said. “It was good to finally get that done and ready for those kids to live there. Obviously, there was a chance to do some up- grades of the 30-year-old flooring and stuff like that.” better thing for us because we had both,” he said. “If it was a city call, we dealt with this dispatch. If it was anything outside the city, we would deal with county. That was cumber- some at times. It is nice dealing with just one dis- patch center. We’re still trying to work out some of the bugs. We’re still trying to improve it. It’s a lot of change, and every- body is adjusting to it.” SUBSTATION WRECK Stanton said anoth- er incident that added to the busy year was when a semi-truck crashed into 2014 STATISTICS Stanton said HFES re- HERMISTON AND STANFIELD CONSOLIDATION EFFORT Of the EMS calls, 602 were for inter-facility transports, and Stanton said a majority of those were to the Tri-Cities, but HFES continues to trans- port people to Portland and Spokane. Of the fire calls, 36 were buildings, 57 were natural cover, 28 were vehicles and 13 were oth- er fires. The calls in this category also included 58 rescues or extrications, 18 hazardous conditions, 63 service calls, 107 good intent, 64 false alarms and eight special incidents. “Our actual working fires aren’t necessarily increasing,” Stanton said. “It’s the technical res- cues, the public assists, hazardous materials calls — those are the types of calls we’re seeing in- creases in. Our fire calls, per se, are pretty much staying the same about every year.” Stanton said HFES sent resources to signif- icant natural cover fire calls elsewhere, but the district experienced an average year. He said the most sig- nificant incident last year was an ammonia leak at Hermiston Foods in June, which required Denny’s to be evacuated and peo- ple to be sheltered at the Best Western Inn, but no one was seriously injured. Low Prices. Stanton said each dis- trict’s board of directors may choose to pursue the reformation again in the future. “We’re going to do some survey work, try to get out to all the folks and ask them what they knew about the consolidation, what they didn’t know, what were their concerns — try to get some feed- back to see where that leads us,” he said. “Ob- viously, we still feel that, for the future, that’s the best course of action for the organizations and for the public. 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