And approved.

We got everybody here.

Okay, now for our new business, we have Chief Delk, our Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue Department report.

Good afternoon, Council.

This is this is our monthly report on Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue, kind of an update of what's been going on within our department, some of the different things that we're doing, how we're doing them, and just a look at that.

If I hit the right button.

Big button.

There we go.

Big button, they told me.

Alright,

so starting off right here, we actually had a uh Tuscaloosa Academy came out.

They had a serve day, came out, actually got to work with the guys on truck day.

We didn't let them run any saws or anything like that, but we worked on worked on some of uh you know truck checkoffs, some of the normal stuff that they do.

So these guys got a real good look and and also got a lot of artwork and things for the station.

So we always appreciate that from the different schools and the different different groups online visit us.

Uh you know, we always like snacks and all that kind of stuff that they bring us.

So we definitely appreciate that.

We just had the excellence awards.

We had 22 guys that received awards, and these were uh ranging from uh we had 22 guys recognized uh for 25 years of service.

So had a large group of guys in our department that have got a lot of years of service.

Um so that's something to be proud of.

Um I think these guys are you know don't get a lot of smiles out of these guys.

So you can see right here, this was a happy moment for them.

I think some families and stuff got to enjoy this.

So really good for our department to see this right there recognized.

Some numbers for the month.

Um, you can see here we've got it broke down EMS fire and other service calls.

So EMS calls are always up on the trend uh versus those fire calls.

This

picture on the left right here, you know, doesn't look that great, but if you if you look through that hallway right there, you can see that the rest of the house was safe.

There's actually a dog kennel, some other stuff.

So that's what we take pride in is not just putting the fire out, but actually saving some of that livable space, and that's that's what our guys are trained to do, and that's what we tried.

And the second picture right here on the right, this was actually two structures that were involved.

This is on the east side of town.

That first house caught, you can tell right there the second house on the left side of this picture is starting to catch.

The guys went in, did a search, got everybody out, and we actually cut that fire off.

So kept that contained to one structure.

That's that's some of the stuff that that aggressive firefighting gets you, and that's that's what we do.

We like to take pride in that.

So that was a good example, kind of showing uh one of the guys on scene took that picture and I wanted to share it with you.

We also took place in an annual AMAS training that's Alabama Mutual Aid Systems of Alabama.

Y'all have heard me talk over and over again about specialty teams and some of the stuff that our guys get into.

So dive technical rescue, confined space, all that stuff was displayed.

Our team, uh, this picture on the left, I didn't know it until last night.

We actually made the state newsletter.

Uh they put that picture of our guys representing the state for AMAS, so it was a good good drill on the confined space.

They have confined space, hazmat, uh, a swift water scenario, and all these teams from all over the state kind of play different roles and go through those scenarios.

Our uh structural collapse and our confined space finished their scenario.

I think it was an hour and four minutes faster than anybody in the state.

So that's uh that that was something definitely to be proud

of.

The

next thing that we wanted to get into, we've been working, and I'm gonna get a big big shout out to Sarah, Huey, Shelby, all the group in StratCon for getting this going for us.

This was kind of our rebranding.

We had you know, striping of vehicles, all those things all over the place, and so it was time for us an update of the things that we're doing.

So right here you can see some different things that that StratCom's put together for us that didn't really kick the heritage that we've got in our fire department, but actually just embraced that and kind of built off what we've

got.

So

you'll be seeing some of the different uh the before and after of our our patches, our Maltese cross.

I mean, you can see some of the some of the different things, the wording, just making sure that all our uniforms, vehicles, all the things that we spend uh a lot of taxpayer funds on are looking right, looking like they need to uh in a uniform manner.