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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
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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.
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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. We just didn’t
have enough time to get
out and educate enough
people, so that would be
the biggest thing for us
for the next time to have.
We’re optimistic we’ll do
a better job on the educa-
tion side next time.”
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HFES also began pro-
viding ambulance ser-
vices for the Umatilla
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“I think it’s going well
down there,” Stanton
said. “I hope the citizens
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service with paramedics
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them, 24/7.”
Stanton said HFES re-
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promotions led to even
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He said Battalion Chief
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Cahill each retired after
27 years of service.
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Stanton said the merger
will ultimately benefit
HFES.
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