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Naples Fire-Rescue Quarterly Newsletter

Fire-Rescue’s New Interactive Station Tour and Apparatus Display for Children

Each day Fire-Rescue has visitors at the Stations who wish to tour the City’s Fire-Rescue facilities.  Therefore, Fire-Rescue staff has implemented a new interactive and educational tour for young children. This new outreach program educates children about the fire service while demonstrating what it’s like to be a firefighter and displays the daily routine at the fire station. Children wear bunker gear and participate by using a fire hose and shooting down targets with a fire stream; they get a chance to sit in the fire engine and/or have a photo with our firefighters.  This program has been beneficial for our community outreach and allows our firefighters the opportunity to interact with the community in times when there isn’t an emergency.

Fire-Rescue adds Ballistic Protection to Fire Apparatus

The fire service is an ever-changing profession. The City of Naples Fire-Rescue Department has an “All Hazards” approach to our community which often causes staff to discuss awful events such as active shooter and mass causality incidents. Fire-Rescue is proactively preparing for these events with hopes that we never see them come to our community. Studies have shown that fatal victims of an active shooter event pass due to blood loss caused by the gun shot. Naples Fire-Rescue believes that rapid intervention by rescuers with blood loss control equipment can minimize the loss of life in these horrible events. The implementation of ballistic vests and helmets for fire-rescue personnel are essential to rescuer safety as we send our personnel into these extremely hazardous scenes. Naples Fire-Rescue has now trained with law enforcement on proper deployment, usage and scenarios of how a team would enter and rescue victims.