All right.

Mo uh minutes stand approved.

And now for our new business, we have Chief Dilk.

Good afternoon again, Council.

This is an approval.

This is a contract between Advanced Fire Protection District and Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue.

It's a it's a mutual aid agreement that basically compensates us for a response to their jurisdiction.

We've been working on this since I started, probably before I started.

And so what kind of compensation?

It's based off the FEMA rates.

The FEMA has a schedule based on engines, truck companies, apparatus, and so that's what it's based off of.

It's charged hourly.

So if we send and this contract also it does not, we don't break any of our policies on response.

So even though we're going to wherever it might be, our guys are still going to stay safe in the response model that we have.

But there's a there's a basic fee.

Yes, sir.

I'll uh give me two seconds.

I had this right here.

All right, so uh for a for a truck company it would be 245 dollars an hour.

Uh engine company is $390 an hour, and so um depending on the different responses.

That's less than an uh an attorney would charge you five.

Right.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Um so these are based on on medical calls, vehicle fires, structure fires, so those will build based on the response that's needed.

So we're not current, are we currently already?

No, sir.

We are so this is okay.

Yes, and this was they've got uh they have advanced fire protection district and they have some advanced volunteer department.

Um you anticipate much of a volume I don't I don't think so.

I think this was almost an insurance policy for them just to make sure that they do have some backup for them for their citizens if they need something.

Okay.

Any more questions or comments for Chief Dilk?

I'll make a motion.

Second.

All in favor?

All right, okay.

Motion passes.

Thank you, Chief Dilk.

I'll wait.

You're up again.

I'm up again.

Y'all gotta see me again today.

And this is the Tuscaloosa fire rescue update.

Yes, this is our uh monthly update, and so let's get back to my folks right there.

All right, so we were asked last uh last committee meeting that we made a presentation to come up with to kind of outline our our strategic planning for RSA.

I think that's gonna be a big thing for us coming up because we do have a potential to lose a lot of firefighters.

So before we get to that, I just wanted to hit on some high points from the highlights of our department over the past month.

Uh last month we had 214 fire calls, uh thousand thirty-five EMS calls, and then 123 service calls.

And like I've described before, those service calls are everything from uh water, sewer, gas smells, lift assist, you name it, um, those lift assists that turn into medical needs, those obviously bump up to the EMS category, but those that don't fall into the service call.

Couple of different calls that we went on this past month.

This was uh entrapment on Crescent Ridge Road.

Uh telephone pole was in the driver's compartment there.

They actually had to remove this telephone pole before they could extricate, so they cut the passenger and the uh excuse me, they cut the back door and the front door off of the driver's side to get this patient out.

They got him out.

Um I think he's made a good recovery.

That took a little while.

Yes, sir, it did.

This was not a you know, I know a lot of these you'll see in different um whether it's a drone feed, whether it's news crews, and you wonder, hey, what's taking so long?

But you've got to think in this car right here, the dash is rolled on top of him, and those side compartments are rolled on, and so you're trying to do as little harm to that patient that's already beat up to start with.

Um so you're trying to try to get him out of there as fast as you can, but also not cause any of the things.