December 10, 2012 – 10:54 am
A nice little video on why having residential fire sprinklers installed in your home is a great idea. Check out this link. Fire Sprinkler systems are highly effective and are a lot better than the next most effective option, having a firefighter living in your midst. I live in a townhome covered by a fire [...]
November 28, 2012 – 1:25 pm
This seems to happen nearly every year, a deer gets out onto the thin ice of the early ice season, and falls through. Depending on how long the animal struggles before we get called out has a big impact on the ultimate outcome. In this case, somebody called 9-11 early on and we were able [...]
November 2, 2012 – 3:12 pm
The Annual Chili Cook-off on Halloween took place at City Hall and Fire Inspector, Tony Liddell was the winner this year! Tony is known as a first rate chef amongst his friends and relatives and his chili went fast and garnered the most votes of the very discerning taste buds of the assembled city staff [...]
October 29, 2012 – 2:31 pm
The fact that the folks at LEO A DALY did all of their work free of charge for the Minnesota Fire Service only heightens their results. The link to an article written in today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press sheds a little bit of light on the concept hatched by the design team. I can tell [...]
October 26, 2012 – 6:04 am
This morning from 0500-0800, I am working as a firefighter on a three person Duty Crew shift out of Fire Station One. Eden Prairie Fire implemented the Duty Crew strategy just 26 days ago on October 1st. The idea is to provide a more consistent response time to emergency calls, while providing a more predictable [...]
October 23, 2012 – 4:04 pm
Karen Kurt, a former co-worker of mine when she worked in Eden Prairie, is a blogger now in Edina. I just got wind of this fact a week or so ago and took some time to read her blogs. You’d never know she wasn’t a professionally trained blogger, by reading her prose. Take a look [...]
October 22, 2012 – 10:12 am
Since June of 2011, or roughly the past 15 months, a large group of fire service leaders have been working tirelessly to raise $720,000 to build a proper place for Minnesota’s Fallen Firefighters to be honored. Since 1881, 207 firefighters have died in the line of duty and the only memorial was a lone sculpture [...]
October 12, 2012 – 12:22 pm
Here is a link to a terrific article written by EPFD Fire Captain, Becki White. The article is particularly timely given that fire departments around the country are focusing much of their time on spreading the message about fire safe behaviors. The EPFD has a lot of very talented folks, and this is just one [...]
Every year Eden Prairie Firefighters and Police Officers stop by and visit neighborhoods that register their Eden Prairie Night to Unite event. Also stopping by are Police Department Community Service Officers, Police Explorers and Police Civilian employees who are diligently picking up donations for PROP, the local Eden Prairie Food shelf. This year the event [...]
Well done “TED” video on many levels. http://youtu.be/sAQfzHBpRsc Tweet
