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Fire chief outlines staffing, equipment needs and county reporting plan
Summary
The county fire chief reported recent wildland and structure responses, proposed raising county firefighter pay to $25/hour, described mutual-aid and incident-command roles, and said the county will centralize NFIRS reporting through ImageTrend to improve grants and recordkeeping.
Duchesne County’s fire chief, identified in the meeting as Josh (speaker 8), gave an update on recent fires, mutual-aid assignments, equipment needs, and operational changes at the July 21 meeting.
Josh said county crews responded to several smoke checks and wildland fires in the last weeks and that one engine (Engine 145) was assigned to Deer Creek with a 16-day assignment for a county operator. He reported that a pump failure…
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