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Ridgeland Firefighters at State Fire Academy training. |
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The Ridgeland Fire Department provides both emergency and non-emergency services to the public from four fire stations utilizing four pumper trucks, two ladder/pumper trucks, two rescue trucks, a rescue boat, and several support vehicles. There are sixty-two employees, including fifty-seven combat firefighter/EMT’s and five administrative staff. Three shifts, each with nineteen personnel, staff the four stations.
Fire department services include, but are not limited to, the following:
Emergency Services
Fire Response
- Fires in buildings, vehicles, grass, woods, gardens, rubbish, etc.
- Controlled burns that pose a hazard of spreading
- Lightning strikes, with or without fire
- Explosions, with or without fire
- Unknown source of visible smoke or smoke odor
- Known source of smoke or odor if an uncontrolled fire may result
Rescue Response
- Extrication of people trapped in confined spaces resulting from a motor vehicle collision, structural collapse, trench collapse, etc.
- Rescue of people trapped in high places
- Rescue of people in water, or in boats or other vehicles in water
- Rescue of people trapped by electrical hazards
- Rescue of people from locked vehicles, locked structures, or stuck elevators, where life safety is critical
- Search and rescue for persons lost on land or water
Emergency Medical Response
- The fire department provides primary care and stabilization for people with any injury or illness requiring immediate medical attention. AMR Ambulance Service provides secondary care and patient transport to area hospitals. If requested by the ambulance service, a firefighter/EMT will assist during transport.
Hazardous Situation Response
- Hazardous material leaks and spills, including strange odors
- Electrical hazards, such as power lines down or arcing/shorted electrical equipment
- Vehicle accidents with leaks, spills, or other hazards
- Buildings or other structures weakened or collapsed
- Acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters
- Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and ice storms
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Non-Emergency Services
Fire Code Program
- Code adoption – International Fire Code 2003
- Code compliance review for new and existing buildings
- Code compliance inspections of all commercial structures
- Issuance of burn permits`
Fire and Life Safety Education
- Fire and life safety inspections for residences
- Consult service for businesses and residences to develop fire emergency plans and severe weather plans
- Fire prevention displays and activities for community events
- Instruction for a wide range of fire and life safety subjects (Click on the “Fire and Life Safety” heading for details.)
Assistance
- With blood pressure monitoring, on a walk-in basis at all fire stations
- For elderly or disabled persons who have fallen
- In moving disabled persons to and from a vehicle
- To law enforcement when technical assistance is needed
- At community events with fire and life safety stand-by protection
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