Western North Carolina Firefighters Association

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Western North CarolinaFirefighters Association

• Gamewell Fire Department

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WNCAFF Officers 2009

• President Ryan Cole
• 1st Vice President - Tommy Blanton
• 2nd Vice President - Scott Burnette
• Secretary Anthony Penland
• Treasurer Dean Coward
• Past President Jimmy Hensley

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WNCAFF

• Past Officers

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Secretary Report

• Anthony Penland

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Treasurers Report

• Dean Coward

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Agency Reports

• NCSFA
• NCAFC
• NVFC
• OSFM
• Community Colleges
• NCFS
• NCFFF

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Seatbelt Pledge Status
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• Firefighter Fatalities in
• North Carolina

In a ten year period from 1998 to 2008 North
Carolina Fire Service experienced 60 fatalities
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Heart attacks were the leading cause of
fatalities at 57.63.Motor Vehicle Crashes
followed at 27.12.Fires and Other types of
incidents each carried 8.47.
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Of the types of incidents generating fatalities
Motor Vehicle Crashes are the most preventable,
by firefighters not wearing seat belts causing
the fatality.

• Only 1 of the 16 fatalities in Motor Vehicle
  Crashes
• occurred while wearing a seat belt.
• (Two of the MVCs involved a motorcycle)

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• In the ten year period from 1998 until 2008 of
  the 60 fatalities of firefighters
• Heart Attacks 34
• Motor Vehicle Crashes 16
• Fires 5
• Other 5

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• A noticeable decline in Motor Vehicle Crashes
  extended to none in 2005 with a major increase
  starting in 2006. Half of all Motor Vehicle
  Crashes have occurred in the past two years.

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We Must Honor Our Fallen Brothers and Sisters of
North Carolina By Making The Fire Service Safer
For The FutureWhat Is Your Department Doing To
Reduce Firefighter Fatalities and Injuries by 25
by 2010
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Old Buisness
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Western North CarolinaAssociation of Firefighters

• 2009
• Goals

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Administrative Goal Progress

• By-Laws Revision
• (Jimmy Hensley)
• Develop WNCAFF Guidelines
• Executive Committee
• Mission Statement
• (Tommy Blanton)
• Strategic Plan
• (Scott Burnette)

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Marketing Goal Progress

• New Sales Supplies
• New Logo
• New Apparel
• Other Items
• Stickers
• Challenge Coins
• Fire Marks
• Other

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Marketing Goal Progress

• Identify Benefits of WNCAFF
• WNCAFF Brochure
• Increasing Membership
• County Meetings
• Identify County Association Meetings
• Divide Counties with Officers
• An Officer Attends at Least One Meeting in Every
  County

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Web Site

• Calendar of Events (Joey Davis)
• WNCAFF Events
• Training Events
• Information Sharing
• Discussion Group

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Programs

• Seat Belt Campaign
• Promote Program in County Meetings
• Contact Each Department Directly
• Officer Firefighter Recognition Program
• Identify Improvements
• Educational Programs
• Identify Improvements
• Benefits
• Identify Improvements

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New Programs

• Fire Department Assistant Program
• Identify Assistance Capabilities
• Identify Needs
• Match Needs with Assistance
• WNCAFF Resource Book / FOG Manual
• Identify Department Contact Info
• Develop Field Operations Guide for WNC

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New Programs (cont)

• Accident Analysis Assistance Program
• Provide training on accident analysis
• Provide personnel to assist as outside evaluators
  for departments with accidents
• Fatality Assistance Program
• Joey Webb

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New Business
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Gateway
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Gateway IX

• Raleigh NC
• Feb 18-20 2009

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Gateway

• A Chance to learn from lessons in the past and
  plan for the future of Emergency Services
• Review previous accomplishments of Gateway VIII
• Develop issues needing addressed in 2009
• Prioritize list if issues
• Create Goal Statements
• Develop Action Plans

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Agencies Participating

• NC Fire Marshals
• NCFLSE
• NCAFC
• VFIS
• NCSFRI
• VSWCF
• NC County FM
• NCOSFM
• WNCAFF
• NCOSFM

• NCPFFP
• NCSFA
• NCFFF
• PNCFA
• NCAREMS
• ENCFA
• NCFS
• NCCCS
• NCEM

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Goals of Gateway

• Provide an environment for leaders from different
  arenas to meet and network
• Provide individual leadership development
• Identify the means to success and the roadblocks
  that create failure
• Identify 4-6 issues that all participants can
  agree upon as being key major issues to
  advancing our industry
• Develop a strategic vision and plan for
  partnering solutions to the key issues

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Gateway Vision

• A fully inclusive NC emergency service that
  fosters consensus on major issues facing our
  members and the citizens we serve, and that
  develops coalitions for working toward solutions.

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Gateway VIII Accomplishments

• Supported/Monitored (Status/Progress)
• Communication/Coordination
• Progress being made but needs to continue
• Emergency Vehicle Operations Driver Safety
• Seat Belt use has increased
• Only one rollover accident who attended training
• NC leads nation in seat belt pledge

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Gateway VIII Accomplishments

• Work and Accomplish (Status/Progress)
• Firefighter Safety
• Training needs identified
• Classes developed and conducted
• Instructors trained
• Request for training materials increased
• Over 100 departments completed pledge
• Developed incentive program
• Positive competition between regions
• Seat Belts checked at NCFF Memorial
• Links on Web Sites to Seat Belt Pledge
• Commitment of officers to safety

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Gateway VIII Accomplishments

• Work and Accomplish (Status/Progress)
• Junior Member Program
• Worked with OSHA on apprentice program
• Junior member standard
• Residential Sprinklers
• Still need representation on NCBC
• Rules for plumbers to install sprinklers drafted
• Sprinkler video made available
• NC had largest representation at ICC hearings
• ICC Amendment passed

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Gateway VIII Accomplishments

• Work and Accomplish (Status/Progress)
• Benefits
• Instructor benefit passed
• Working with IRS and law firm on legislation
• Disability coding is before IRS
• Pension fund equity did not pass will continue
• Heart attacks are now included
• Workers Comp rates lower for organizations with
  fewer incidents

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Gateway IX Initial Issues

• Health Wellness
• Fatality and Injury Task Force
• Education for FD and Public
• Higher Education for Emergency Services
• 1403 Compliance
• New Fire Officer Class for Chiefs
• Photoelectric vs Ionization Detectors
• FLSE for Administrations
• Improved Linkage with Emergency Management

• Background Checks
• Gateway Benchmarks Accomplishments
• Credentialing and Accountability
• Alternative Funding Sources
• Emergency Services Caucus
• Expansion into non-traditional areas
• NC Pension Fund Communication
• Handicap accessibility of private quarters
• NCFS Pick-Up Firefighters

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Top Six Issues and Point of Contact

• Health Wellness
• Mike Hill
• Fatality Injury Task Force
• Ryan Cole
• New Fire Officer Class for Chiefs
• Ken Mullen
• Linkage with Emergency Management
• Doug Howell
• Gateway Benchmarks Accomplishments
• Tommy Blanton
• Credentialing Accountability
• Walter Jones

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Health Wellness

• Action Plan
• Using USFA/NVFC emergency Health and Safety
  Issues
• 5 million mile walk with 8,000 participants 3
  miles per week for 50 weeks for 5 years
• Include fatality task force
• Package 5 personal safety issues in 2009 25in5
• VSWCF/OSFM Funding for CPAT testing

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Fatality Injury Task Force

• Identify Behavioral Factors Causing Injuries
• Adopt Strategies for Changing Behaviors
• Institutionalize Behavioral Change
• Measure Outcomes
• Regionalization
• Data Identification / Collection / Compilation
  Analysis
• Diverse Group

• Medical Support
• Lessons Learned
• Identify Behaviors
• Near Miss Program
• On Site Support
• Trained in Analysis
• Insurance Industry Support
• Criteria for on scene support/analysis
• NCSFA umbrella

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New Chief Class

• Determine what Chiefs need to know
• Rosters
• LODD
• Report of Fire Conditions
• Pension Fund
• Fire Incident Reporting
• Emergency Management
• Legislative change for state grant eligibility
• Updates
• Develop The Class
• NCSFA
• OSFM
• NCAFC
• NCCCS
• NCAREMS
• Topics
• Dates for Rosters
• Dates for Grants
• New Member on Roster

• When/How Often
• Annual
• Mid Winter
• 3 Regional Fire Schools / As Needed
• Criteria for Instructors
• Specific to Chiefs
• Tracked by NCSFA
• Addition to rating schedule
• Alternative Delivery
• Accreditation Model
• One Person
• Include Specialist Groups
• Fire/Rescue/EMS
• Home study/ Classroom Combination

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Linkage with Emergency Management

• Grant Programs
• How to get involved in Homeland Security process
  (HLS)
• State Emergency Response Commission (ID)
• Eligibility (Education)
• Periods of Eligibility
• Workshops at NCSFA and NCAFC conferences
• Interstate Mutual Aid (IMAS)
• NCSFA Working Issue (Frank Burns)
• NC role in national plan
• State Mutual Aid
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)
• Conference Topic
• Network State Disaster Management Process
• Roles Responsibility
• Access to Resources
• Resource Management
• Communications
• Association Meetings/Newsletters/Website

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Gateway Benchmarks Accomplishments

• NCSFA Statistician to track, make contacts, name
  responsible agency, and report on prior years
  progress
• Assign goals to sub committee association
• Match issues to proper agencies
• Task committees and agencies held accountable at
  Gateway
• Update of Gateway Statisticians report at
  conference
• Creation of Gateway web page within NCSFA
• Statistician assist Gateway facilitator
• Possible name change of Gateway to create new
  birth

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Credentialing / Accountability

• Action Items
• Identify who is affected
• Promote need
• Identify lead agency
• Identify present systems
• Final system design / implementation potential

• Outcomes
• Provide personal accountability
• Identify levels of training / expertise
• Provides an expandable system framework
• Provides use with National Resource Typing
• Provides for system standardization
• Prevents self-deployment
• Encourages participation
• Promotes routine evaluation and improvement

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Strategic Recommendations

• Each Association and Organization will make
  representative available to assist Team Leads
  upon request
• Each Team Lead agrees to meet together at the
  Instructors Conference May 8th
• Each association and partnering organization
  agree tat the NCSFA serve as the home location
  for future Gateway meetings.

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Meetings For 2009

• January Meeting
• Swannanoa Fire Department
• April Meeting
• Gamewell Fire Department
• July Meeting
• Kings Mountain Fire Department
• October Meeting
• Spruce Pine Fire Department

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Workshops for 2009

• Are You Covered (March)
• Understanding Workers Comp and Accident Policies
  For The Fire Service
• Where Did They Come From (June)
• Managing the End of The Alphabet Generations
• Beyond The Stone Age (September)
• Technologies Available to the Fire Service
• Leading The Future (Jan-Feb 2010)
• Leadership Conference

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Events of 2009

• January
• 21st Meeting Swannanoa
• February
• 6-8 Mid Winter
• 18-20 Gateway
• March
• Workers Comp AS W/S
• April
• 15th Meeting Gamewll FD
• May
• 6-9 NCSFRI Conference
• June
• Generation XYZ Mgmt

• July
• 15th Meeting Kings Mt FD
• August
• 28-30 NCSFA Conf
• September
• Technology Workshop
• October
• 21st Meeting Spruce Pine FD
• November
• December
• January
• 13th Meeting
• Leadership Conference

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Program

• Tommy Blanton

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Appreciation

• Gamewell Fire Department
• Door Prizes
• Meal

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Next Events

• Workers Comp AS Workshop
• March
• AB Tech Enka Campus Room 200
• Next Meeting
• April 15th
• Gamewell Fire Department

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Door Prizes 50/50
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Good Night