“As long as school is going, the crossing guards are out, but parents are being told to drive their kids whenever they can.” Carmen Miller said.
Fire Chief Guy Longtin said that the new mobile repeater has arrived.
“Our training continued to be mostly online, and whatever way we could, due to the COVID restrictions.” He said. “I’m happy to say that our firefights are meeting in person in groups of 10 or less.”
He said the total calls in 2020 was up 46% since the previous years with 117 calls.
He said that they also planned to go to the fire marshal as a group with their concerns due to the closure of the fire training center, and they had been told that there was no way to save to fire college and its closure was “made above the Fire Chief’s level’]
He said that the closest training center is in Laughlin, and the cost to send people there is ‘costly’
CAO Trembley said that there were some fire recommendations from LEG, and that a good place to start was with dispatch, and that having a training facility is ‘costly’.
“They’ve adapted very well to COVID. It’s a wait and see with the chiefs.”
Councillor Charlene Jackson asked the Reeve to bring up at the County level that they need to improve their communications systems. “We’re having problems getting reports.”
Mayor Moore said the the county had some money ‘socked away’ for improvements, but that there was ‘no timeline.
Longtin said that making their own training center will have problems if other local areas start their own as well.
“There’s 20 of them now.” Longtin said. “If we do it, there’s 21, and other municipalities are doing it to.. There’s not going to be much revenue, if everyone has their own.”
