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| Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | | · | Breath Of Life Day | | Monday, December 22, 2008 | | · | Muscular Dystrophy Boot Drive | | Thursday, November 27, 2008 | | · | Firefighters Boot Drive | | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | | · | Safety Net Contest Winner | | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | | · | Why We Constantly Train | | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | | · | Crews Kept Busy Throughout The Night | | Monday, October 06, 2008 | | · | Halloween Safety Tips | | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 | | · | What do you store in your home? | | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | | · | Burning Permits | | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | | · | Terry Fox Run | | · | Gerstmar Rd Fire |
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Kelowna Firefighters Local 953!
Welcome to the Kelowna Firefighters webpage. It is our mission to provide safety to our community through effective training, prevention, education, and emergency preparedness programs. Here you will find information on what we do in and around the community we serve.
Please take some time and navigate our site for more specific information on the services we perform as well as interesting news releases, photographs and kids entertainment. If you have any feedback or information that you would like to add or have us add to the site please don't hesitate to contact the administrator at anytime. Enjoy and stay safe!
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Have A Heart Radio-thon |
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Local 953, the Kelowna Firefighters Charitable Society recently donated $3000.00 to the "Have A Heart Radio-thon" which will go to the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation. We take great pride in being able to support our local charites in this way.
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Burn Awareness Week |
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The British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Burn Awareness Week (February 1st - 7th) is designed to teach kids to be responsible for their own safety, and help make their families aware of potentially harmful situations. The program targets children in the high risk age group of pre-school to grade seven. The Burn Fund offers the program in five age appropriate levels. The web based program includes fire safety tip information, student activity sheets, colouring pages and animated videos. Check out the Burn Fund web page www.burnfund.org for more info on this valuable tool for your own families safety.
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Gear up 4 CF - Vancouver to the Rockies |
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A group of riders, one being a Local 953 Member (Doug Shaw), will be riding from Vancouver to the Rockies on a 1200KM journey spanning ten days. The purpose of the ride is to generate funds to support the research of Cystic Fibrosis which is a fatal inherited disease that affects one in every 3,600 children born in Canada each year.
Each rider is responsible for raising a minimum of $5000.00. Please check out the Gear Up 4 CF website for more information on the ride, as well as how simple it is to make a tax refundable donation.
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Kelowna Fire Department Stats |
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The Kelowna Fire Department has been getting increasingly busy over the years as our city expands substantially in population. Here is a breakdown of our stats for 2008:
| Kelowna Fire Department - Runs by Station - 2008 |
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| Station |
Medical |
Fire |
Total |
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| 1 |
1163 |
884 |
2047 |
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| 2 |
1515 |
1243 |
2758 |
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| 3 |
1089 |
1101 |
2190 |
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| 4 |
868 |
739 |
1607 |
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| Contract |
75 |
74 |
149 |
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| 7* |
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277 |
277 |
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| 8* |
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128 |
128 |
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| 9 |
6 |
15 |
21 |
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| Totals |
4716 |
4461 |
9177 |
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| Dispatch |
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18012 |
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This list does not include public service calls but if you compare the numbers to 2007, our dispatch center that is based out of Station #1 on Enterprise Way handled 15627 calls in 2007 compared with 18012 calls in 2008, an increase of 2385 calls.
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