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Fairfield fire leadership outlines staffing shortfalls, infrastructure problems and a recent lifesaving at high school
Summary
Fire department leaders described staffing gaps in the fire marshal's office, aging station infrastructure, new hires in town finance and grants, and operational statistics including three significant fires and a cardiac arrest successfully treated at a Fairfield Warde High School basketball game.
Assistant Chief Dennis Iannotti, serving as Fairfield's fire marshal, briefed the commission on a range of department matters from community outreach to staffing and recent operations.
Iannotti opened by presenting the fire prevention poster contest, an annual Connecticut program for fourth- and fifth-graders. "The theme is fire safety everyone, every day," he said, and asked the commission to add a recognition event for town winners to the February meeting agenda. He said approximately 300 students participated in this year's local contest and that town winners will be entered in county-level judging.
On staffing, Iannotti said the fire marshal's office has been operating with reduced personnel and that a long-term injury has left the office short. "If you don't have the people to perform the inspections...we need the staffing to perform them," he said, linking inspection capacity directly…
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