ISSUE: 05/05/2017

CENTRAL KITSAP FIRE & RESCUE

B/C Hostetter Announces His Retirement

After 30 wonderful years with our District, Battalion Chief Steve Hostetter has announced his retirement at the

end of this month. His last shift will be on Tuesday, May 30 and the District will be hosting a retirement function

for Steve on Wednesday, May 31 at Station 51. More details on Page 3 of this issue!

From: Eileen McSherry Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 5:33 PM To: AllPersonnel Subject: Promotions -- INFO

Good Evening All,

I am very pleased to announce the promotion of Tom Sullivan to Captain and Rick O’Rourke to Battalion Chief. Both of these fine employees reflect careers of dedicated performance and creativity. Please join me in wishing them the very best as they tackle more challenges in their new assignments. Effective dates of their promotions are not yet decided; more on that to come at a later date.

Congratulations Tom and Rick!

Eileen McSherry

HR Director

Promotions! Rick O’Rourke

Battalion Chief

Tom Sullivan

Captain

More

Promotions! From: Eileen McSherry Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 4:10 PM To: AllPersonnel Subject: Promotions to Lieutenant

Good Afternoon,

I am pleased to announce the promotions of Chris Bigelow and Christopher Starkey to “Lieutenant”. Both of them move into their new positions with great backgrounds that include education, experience and “can do” attitudes. Please join me in congratulating them! Effective dates will be communicated at a later date.

Eileen McSherry

HR Director

Christopher Starkey

Lieutenant

Chris Bigelow

Lieutenant

UPDATE: Uniform CBA—Ratified!

Admin Staff and Summit Law Group collaborated with

Local 2819 to produce an updated Collective Bargaining

Agreement for 2017-2019. This document has recently

been ratified by Local 2819 and will be presented for

Board action on Monday, May 8th at the BOC meeting.

From: Ileana LiMarzi Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 3:10 PM

Today is National Firefighters'

Day and 41C had a visit from

Franz Bakery. They dropped off

some goodies to show their

appreciation. YUM!

Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue

invites you to join us as we honor and thank

Steve Hostetter Battalion Chief

for his 30 years of dedication to the Central Kitsap Community

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

4:00 PM at Fire Station 51

10955 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA 98383

Refreshments will be served after presentations

CELEBRATING

1942 - 2017

75 YEARS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mon. May 8 Annual Fire Extinguisher Inspections begin

Mon. May 8 BOC Regular Meeting, Admin Building (4 PM)

Mon. May 22 BOC Study Session, Admin Building (4 PM)

Wed. May 31 BC Hostetter’s Retirement Celebration. Admin Building (4 PM)

Sat. Jun 3 CKFR Kid’s Day, Kitsap Fairgrounds

Thu. Jun 22 CKFR’s 75th Anniversary

CKFR’s 75th Anniversary

Fire Chief Weninger

The CKFR Board formally adopted an

organizational founding date of

June 22, 1942 many years ago. As

such, June 22nd

, 2017 will represent

our 75th year of service to the

community.

To recognize this milestone, Staff is

planning for the following activities:

We will develop a special CK

Weekly addition that focuses on

our 75-year history of service to

the community. This will include

an update on current programs

and projects with the intent to

distribute widely within our CKFR

boundaries.

We will develop methods to

acknowledge this milestone at

both our Kids Day event, Whaling

Days, and our County Fair Booth.

We will explore the development

of a CKFR 75-year anniversary

pin.

If you have other ideas on how we

might recognize this milestone,

please email EA Miller.

Kudos to PM Bernt

Lead PM Kevin Bernt was just accepted into the

National Fire Academy (NFA) for Transitional

Safety Leadership and Applications of

Community Risk Reduction! He will be attending

at the end of next January! Way to go, Kevin!

WEEKLY QUOTE

“Someday is not a day of the week.”

Janet Dailey

Agency Statistics for CKFR—April 2017

All Totals for the Month of April #

Total number of followers 3861

Total number of followers with CPR alerts enabled 2208

SCA incidents 11

SCA incidents in public location 4

CPR Alerts sent 3

Number of devices alerted to CPR needed events 22

Total number of incident notifications 55

Total number of incidents appearing in PulsePoint 626

As of April , CKFR has 3861 followers!

Followers by notification type (EOM April 2017) #

Structure Fire notifications enabled 1089

Working Structure Fire notifications enabled 1113

Vegetation Fire notifications enabled 761

Working Vegetation Fire notifications enabled 809

Traffic Collision notifications enabled 1024

Traffic Collision Expanded notifications enabled 1079

Technical Rescue notifications enabled 874

Hazmat Response notifications enabled 770

Water Rescue notifications enabled 966

NEWS notifications enabled 729

CERT notifications enabled 600

DISASTER notifications enabled 1099

TO: 2819 FF

FROM: Training Lt. Giannobile

DATE: April 28, 2017

We have scheduled Chief Darrell

Taylor, from Bates Technical

College, for a meet and greet /

advising session at Station 41 on

May 11th.

If you are interested in obtaining

your Associates of Arts Degree

this is a great opportunity to talk

with the program advisor to get

your questions answered and

start the process.

Since Tacoma is a long drive

South you are now able to

complete the entire degree from

the comfort of your home/station

through the distance learning

platform.

We currently have several

members attending Bates

Technical College and I have

heard nothing but positive

feedback.

*Note: We know the real value

comes from the knowledge

gained but that 2% extra is nice

to have for a little extra tractor

spending money!

College Advising

Date: May 11, 2017

(Thurs C-Shift)

Location: Station 41

Time: 0830-1000

CKFR KIDS’ DAY 2017

The 32nd Annual Event will be June 3, 2017 from 10:00

AM—2:30 PM at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. It’s FREE

to attend and provides fire and life safety messages,

entertainment, and demonstrations for the whole family!

PIO LiMarzi is the Lead on this great event!

April Event Coverage

Thank you to all our volunteers!

April 22: STEM Showcase Kitsap Mall, Career

and Volunteer Rigs for Touch a Truck

Steve Atkinson

April 25: Central Kitsap High School, Mock

Crash, Career and Volunteer Rigs

JR Fernandez

Ed Scholfield

Lacey Newman

Travis Edwards

Linda Jenkins

Ryver Kallstrom

Kyle Fields

April 29: YMCA Healthy Kids Day Set-Up,

Career and Volunteer Rigs for Touch a Truck

Steve Atkinson

Richard Schulgen

April 30: Association Fundraiser, Cooking

Chicken Dinners, Shopping, Set-Up/Clean-Up

Ed Scholfield and Sons

Judy Henneman

Linda Jenkins

Kyle Fields

Valerie Quill

Kyle Davison

Brandi Bronniman

Chris Clark

Ryver Kallstrom

Christina Bigelow

Ken Erickson

Brianna Lopez

Ted Fry

From: David W. Schultz

Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 4:06 PM Subject: Certificate of Need (CON) Approved for Harrison

Medical Center-Silverdale Expansion!

Great news! We learned today that Harrison’s Certificate of Need has been approved! My heartfelt thanks for your support of our CN application at the Public Hearing, via letters to the Department of Health, letters to the editor, and out in the community.

I am excited for our community’s future as we watch a new state-of-the-art facility emerge in Silverdale, a new outpatient clinic in Bremerton, and for the exceptional care we will continue to provide for years to come.

David Schultz

President, Peninsula Region

Harrison Medical Center ~ St. Anthony Hospital

Update on Harrison’s

Certificate of Need

NOTICE: Central Supply on

Vacation May 20—June 5

From: Joseph Calkins Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 3:11 PM

I would like to let you all know I’ll be on vacation from 5/20/17 to 6/5/17. Please order appropriately to get you through these weeks (Medical, Cleaning Supply). After that, please hold your orders until I come back and I’ll get it to you ASAP. If you absolutely need anything while I’m gone, please contact the Duty Chief or B/C Danskin. I will have a clipboard on my desk to fill out the equipment and bunker gear that was taken (please include the bunker gear serial number). If it’s uniforms, medical or cleaning supplies, please put the completed form on my desk. If you are returning anything, please place it in the rolling laundry basket at Central Supply so I can properly log it back in.

Thanks,

Joe (Your Supply Guy) Calkins

NOZZLE TESTING

On Tuesday, A/O Reed and A/O

Ebert spent the morning testing

smooth bore nozzles (on Reed’s

birthday of all days) at Station 41.

Mark Giannobile

Lieutenant

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO YOU

51 A-shift celebrated PFF

Jeff Stanley’s birthday on

April 26, complete with a

very cute cake and a

“Happy Birthday”

serenade by fellow PFF

Mike Smith.

Greg Platz

A-shift Battalion Chief

Mike is so

talented!

SHADOW DAYS

Olympic High School Shadow day is

hosted by CKFR every Spring at 41. It’s

organized through the East Bremerton

Rotary. Students learn about career

options in the fire service, run a “medical

call” and put on bunker gear, pull a line,

and practice forced entry.

THE YMCA

HEALTHY KIDS DAY

The Y Healthy Kids Day is an

annual event we attended on

April 29th. PIO, Volunteer

crews, and crews from 51

showed off the rigs, passed out

safety info, and Brown and

Stack even danced the YMCA

on stage!

THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA

CKFR currently has one (1) integrated

thermal imaging camera (TIC) that will be

rotated on SCBA packs between Stations.

If you get a chance, test it out and let Ken

Nilson know what you think. These would

be the first units to be put in service in

the State of Washington.

EMS Transport: Coming Full Circle May 4, 2017

Chief Gary Ludwig - See more at: https://www.iafc.org/on-scene/on-scene-article/coming-full-circle?utm_source=informz&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onscene#sthash.e5zGLxcm.dpuf

On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak train rounded a curve in Philadelphia at 106 mph. The train was on a curve

that was restricted to 50 mph or less. As the train entered the curve, the locomotive engineer applied the

emergency brakes.

In just a few seconds, the train, with one locomotive and seven passenger cars, derailed. A total of 245

passengers, 5 on-duty Amtrak employees and 3 off-duty Amtrak employees were on board; 8

passengers were killed, and 185 others were transported to area hospitals.

Of the 185 transported to hospitals, only 24 were taken to a hospital by an ambulance. The other 161

patients were transported by police cars and public-transportation buses. The Philadelphia police used

their “scoop and run” policy, which normally applies to shooting and stabbing victims.

Firefighters did complain in interviews to the NTSB that police cars had blocked access to the crash site

and that police had refused their request to triage patients. As a result of no coordination of patient

transport, some hospitals were overloaded with victims while others received no patients at all.

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Speak up: What will you do in defining moments? Paul Thornton Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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Defining moments are important situations that test a leader's commitment to his or her core beliefs and values. Author Robert Kiyosaki said that in these critical moments, "We become heroes or cowards; truth-tellers or liars; we go forward or backward."

These challenging situations require you to take a stand on difficult and sometimes controversial issues.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy," Martin Luther King Jr. said.

What you do or don't do in these critical moments reveals a lot about your character and credibility.

Defining moments often produce these reactions in people:

Self-doubt — Should I say what I'm thinking? Should I challenge the boss's proposal?

Fear and anxiety — Will I get fired? Will I lose friends? Will I be judged?

Hesitation — Maybe I should wait and see how things unfold. Leaders overcome their fears and anxieties, and they find the courage to stand up and do something.

Speaking up doesn't always place you in a favorable light. In some cases, half the people will support your idea and the other half may think you're irrational. Being a leader requires confidence, independence and grit. Leaders work hard to gain alignment with what they think, say and do.

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