The Year 2011 in Review!
EMS ran 705 calls or 2 per day!
Mulvane Fire Rescue ran 389 calls or 1 per day!
Mulvane Fire hosted Driver Operator / Pumper class.
Mulvane Fire raises $3,077 for MDA in boot drive
Automatic aid agreement between Sedgwick County Fire
Department and Mulvane Fire Rescue was signed into effect.
Mulvane Fire Rescue is awarded a VFA Grant from
Kansas State Forestry Service for $1,938 for a foam system on Tender
406.
Mulvane EMS receives two new Stryker Power cots.
MES Fire Prevention crews
visited approximately 700 children in 4 preschools and grades K-2
this year.
M.E.S. received a 2010
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to help replace most of it's
UHF radio system to new narrowband digital equipment. This federal
grant to Mulvane was for $26,885.
M.E.S. also received a 2010
Regional AFG Grant in cooperation with the Sumner County Fire
Chief's Association. Mulvane Fire Rescue acted as the host
department for the grant. This grant was for $98,325. It assisted
9 Fire Departments and 4 EMS Services in Sumner County to purchase
209 new pagers.
Public Safety study was conducted
to prepare for the Kansas Star Casino.
2011 Firefighter II class;
Lt. Mike Fells Instructor, Trent Julius, Chris Nolan,
Kyle Gasaway, Jayson Williams, Nate Yarnell.
2011 MFR Probie Class welcomes;
FF Carl Edgell, FF Nick Ryan, FF Stuart McDowell,
FF1/EMT Nathan Yarnell, FF1/EMT Duane Brill & FF2/MICT Kurt VinZant.
Mulvane Fire Reserves welcomes;
Kasey Meeks, David Burton & Parker Ryan
(December 2011)
House Fire on
116th Street East
One in custody, KAKE news story!
More pictures here!
Watch a Video of first arriving trucks
New automatic aid agreement
between Sedgwick County Fire Department and Mulvane Fire Rescue.
See the story from KAKE TV.
Sedgwick County will now respond
to all structures fires west of the BNSF railroad tracks in Mulvane,
including Kansas Star Casino & they will send a Tender to the Twin
Lakes addition.
Mulvane will respond to structure
fires in Peck with a Tender and respond an Engine to an area
starting at 95th South & Oliver to 159th East & 119th South.
(November 2011)
Semi-fire on
Kansas Turnpike.
This Semi was hauling cars
when a fire started in the trailer axle. Five cars were a
total loss, two more were damaged.
More photos and Video here!
- 2011 Fire Department
- More photos here!
Interesting Non-injury
accident!
(October 2011)
Mulvane Fire Rescue
is awarded a VFA Grant from Kansas State Forestry Service for
$1,938.
Kansas Forestry Service provided
$1,938 to purchase a new Hale Foamlogix 2.1 Foam
System for Tender 406. The project included a 12 gallon Foam
Tank, front bumper ground nozzle and installation. Low bid for this work was Emergency
Fire Equipment in Mayfield, KS for a total cost of $5,000.
More photos here!
Fire Prevention
Week!
Lt. Heersche & Fire Pup talk to
kids at local daycares.
MES Open House
- Approximately 250 people visited MES Open House this year.
Open House celebrated the end of Fire Prevention Week.
- MES Crews visited approximately 700 children in 4 preschools
and grades K-2 this year. Thanks to all who helped make
this a successfully year!
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More Photos, Click Here!
(September 2011)
Early Morning
Grease fire at Sonic.
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- Minor damage, big mess on the floor!
- Small fire behind grill that employees could not access to
extinguish!
MDA Boot drive!
Thanks to Lt.
Mundell and his efforts, Mulvane Fire Rescue raised over $3,077 this
year for MDA.
Great Job guys!
(August 2011)
Driver Operator /
Pumper class starting in September!
Sign up on KUFST website here.
Lt. Mike Fells Instructor
Auto Aid structure fire in Derby
Click here for photos by FF Aaron Mattson
Structure Fire on
Blue Ridge Ct.
See more of Garry's photos here!
(July 2011)
RV Fire on I-35
Tender 408 supplies water to S/G County E-31 on a RV & Boat fire.
See more of Garry's photos here!
House Fire near Belle Plaine
leave one family homeless.
Units from Mulvane, Derby, Udall &
Wellington assisted FD #9 out of Belle Plaine with the fire.
Wichita Eagle article
KAKE TV
(June 2011)
Disposable Structure Fires: 12 ways to stay safe
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By
Chief
Gary Bowker
Everyone Goes Home Program Kansas Advocate
The above article was written by our own Resource
Team Member, Retired Chief
Gary Bowker.
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This article is published in
FireRescue1 online
at the above link.
Mulvane EMS receives two new
Stryker Power cots.
http://www.ems.stryker.com/equipment.jsp?id=1
(March 2011)
Mulvane Fire
Rescue responds to multiple grass fires.
To see more of Garry's pictures,
click here!~
Mulvane Emergency Services
receives two AFG Awards.
M.E.S. received a 2010
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to help replace most of it's
UHF radio system to new narrowband digital equipment. This
grant replaces one repeater, 12 mobiles and 14 portables to new
narrow band, digital, trunked 450 Mhz equipment. This
equipment would have been obsolete in January 2013 due to new FCC
mandates. This federal grant to Mulvane was for $26,885.
Pro-Comm LMR was low
bidder using Kenwood NEXEDGE equipment.
M.E.S. also received a
2010 Regional AFG Grant to replace pagers. This grant was in
cooperation with the Sumner County Fire Chief's Association and
Mulvane Fire Rescue acted as the host department for the grant.
This grant was for $98,325. It will assist 9 Fire Departments
and 4 EMS Services in Sumner County to purchase 209 new pagers.
The old pagers would have been obsolete in January 2013 due to new
FCC mandates.
Mobile Radio Service was low bidder on this using
Motorola Minitor V pagers.
Search AFG Awards 2010
Mulvane Emergency Services is also just
finishing up with
Sprint-Nextel Rebanding in which we were able to replace eleven
(11) 800 Mhz mobiles and eleven (11) 800 Mhz portables with new P-25
digital radios which will operate on the new State 800 Radio System,
new Butler County 800 and new proposed Sedgwick County 800 radio
system. This amounted to about $105,000 of new equipment from
Sprint-Nextel to Mulvane, M.E.S.
paid $14,000 for the digital P-25 upgrades. Mulvane Police
Department also received 10 mobiles and one portable.
Mobile Radio Service was the contract provider on this using
XTL 2500 mobiles and
XTS 5000 portables.
Car vs Motorcycle leaves one in serious condition.
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- Car stopped just short of hitting
the house, but did knock over a live power junction box.
House Fire
Click here for Garry's
Photos!
2015
