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Lieutenant says three-person Firehouse 39 covers farmland and two lakes with long backup times
Summary
Lieutenant David Griffith described Firehouse 39 as a three-person rural station that responds to farm and building fires, maintains a rescue boat for Lake Afton and Lake Woltana, and often waits on long backup responses from Park City.
Lieutenant David Griffith said Firehouse 39 is a three-person station that “is the only station that actually sits out in the country,” and that the crew responds to farm and building fires as well as water rescues on nearby lakes.
Griffith said the station handles a range of calls, including grass and wheat-field fires, farm equipment incidents and large farm buildings, and that the crew also carries a rescue boat covering Lake Afton and Lake Woltana. “Our boat provides us an opportunity to have, a quick response while we're waiting on the rescue team to come from Park City,” he said.
The lieutenant described the station’s staffing and location as creating long backup times for support units. “As a 3 person team, we have to kind of be on our game and know what we're doing and be efficient at what we're doing because our help is a long ways off,” he said.
During his remarks Griffith referenced a building fire at 944 North Main Street while identifying Engine 39 as the responding unit.
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