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Borough fire chief updates box alarms, plans SOP rewrite; council approves mutual-aid designations
Summary
Borough fire leadership told council it updated box alarm assignments and will rewrite standard operating procedures; council voted to accept the chiefs' mutual-aid recommendations.
The borough fire chief told the Mifflin County Borough Council on an early-February agenda that station box alarm assignments have been updated and that the department will revise borough standard operating procedures for fire response.
The update was presented during the council’s chief report. “We got that taken care of yesterday. Kevin Bartlett typed them all up, presented them to 9 1 1 center, and then I got copies of them also,” the chief said. He said the changes were requested by the county to prepare for a new CAD system and that the department will move next to updating borough SOPs, which “haven’t been updated for years.”
Why it matters: box alarm assignments determine which apparatus and stations respond to structure fires and other incidents.…
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