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If you have a fire, police or medical emergency in Lebanon, dial 324-1111. This will connect you with the York County Communications Center that dispatches Lebanon Fire and Rescue as well as the York County Sheriff's Department. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lebanon Fire Department, Lebanon Rescue and the Lebanon Ladies Auxilliary is always looking for volunteers! Please contact Chief Gil Gerrish at 207-457-2008. Firefighters provide fire protection to the town, and responsibilties include responded to motor vehicle accidents, fires and public assists. You will be provided with training and a pager to alert you of calls. There is constant training available and you will be joining a great group of people providing Emergency Services to a great town! Rescue Members provide Emergency Medical Response to the town. After completing the state training which lasts about three months, you are provided with responders gear, and set to go. Lebanon holds a contract with Frisbee Memorial Hospital, who provides transport services, and Paramedic Service. Ladies Auxilary provides hot meals, cold drinks to firefighters who may be off at a major disaster, or training on a hot summers day. Ladies Auxilary meets 1 Sunday Evening a month. For more info, please contact the Fire Chief's Office at 207-457-2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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TOY'S FOR TOT'S --- ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR!! | The Lebanon Fire Department held another successful Toy's For Tot's Program. This year 49 children in 21 families received toys generously donated by residents and local citizens. Donations were received from as far away as California. A gentleman who grew up in Lebanon and then moved to California saw the Lebanon Fire and Rescue Internet site and saw the ad looking for donations. He then sent a cash donation. This year the fire department received more donations then any year prior. Chief Gil Gerrish and his wife Jane Gerrish donate many hours to make the program a great success. The Gerrish's have led the Toy's For Tot's program for several years; to make the Christmas's of Lebanon less fortunate kids brighter. The program was started about four years ago to help families who are less fortunate be able to have a brighter Christmas. The children were chosen from applications turned into the Fire Chief's Office. All applications that were turned in received toys. The program was a great success. On behalf of the Lebanon Fire and Rescue Departments, we would like to thank Fire and Rescue Chief Gil Gerrish and wife Jane Gerrish for all their hard work and Firefighters Jeanne Stadelman and Samantha Poliquin for helping a lot. We would also like to thank the following businesses for allowing up to set up toy drop off locations at their businesses: Welch's Hardware; East Lebanon Country Store and U-Haul; Lebanon Town Offices; O'Keefe and Martin Warehouse Discount Store. We would like to thank Foster's Daily Democrat, Sanford News, Portland News, Journal Tribune, The Smart Shopper and New England Cablevision Community Notes for all the press coverage. Thank you to all the citizens of Lebanon and area communities for your very generous donations and to Wal-Mart in Sanford for its donation. Because of all the teamwork and donations, almost fifty kids received presents on Christmas, making all the time invested into the program worth while. We look forward to being able to help families in need again next year. _____________________________________________________________ EXIT DRILLS IN THE HOME In 1995, 3640 Americans died in home fires. That's roughly 10 people a day. Tens of thousands more were injured. People can survive even major fires in their homes if they are alerted to the fire and get out quickly and stay out. HOW TO SURVIVE Install smoke detectors and keep them in working order. Make an escape plan and "practice" it. Consider installing an automatic fire-sprinkler system. PLAN YOUR ESCAPE Once a fire has started, there is no time to plan how to get out. Sit down with your family today, and make a step-by-step plan for escaping a fire. Draw a floor Plan of your Home, marking two ways out of every room - especially sleeping areas. Discuss the escape routes with every member of your household. Agree on a Meeting Place, where every member of the household will gather outside your home after escaping a fire to wait for the fire department. This allows you to count heads and inform the fire department if anyone is missing or trapped inside the burning building. Practice your escape plan at least twice a year. Have a fire drill in your home. Appoint someone to be the monitor, and have everyone participate. A fire drill is not a race. Get out quickly, but carefully. MAKE YOUR EXIT DRILL REALISTIC Pretend that some exits are blocked by fire, and practice alternative escape routes,Pretend that the lights are out and that some escape routes are filling with smoke. Be Prepared Make sure everyone in the household can unlock all doors and windows quickly, even in the dark. Windows or doors with security bars need to be equipped with quick-release devices, and everyone in the household should know how to use them. If you live in an apartment building, use stairways to escape. NEVER use an elevator during a fire. It may stop between floors or take you to a floor where the fire is burning. Some high-rise buildings may have evacuation plans that require you to stay where you are and wait for the fire department. If you live in a multi-story house and you must escape from an upper story window, be sure there is a safe way to reach the ground, such as a fire-resistant fire escape ladder. Make special arrangements for children, older adults and people with disabilities. People who have difficulty moving should have a phone in their sleeping area and , if possible, should sleep on the ground floor. Test doors before opening them. While kneeling or crouching at the door, reach up as high as you can and with the back of your hand touch the door, the knob, and the crack between the door and its frame. If you feel any warmth at all, use another escape route. If the door feels cool, open it with caution. Put your shoulder against the door and open it slowly. Be prepared to slam it shut if there is smoke or flames on the other side. If you are trapped, close all doors between you and the fire. Stuff the cracks around the doors to keep outsmoke. Wait at a window and signal for help with a flashlight or by waving a light colored cloth. If there is a phone in the room, call the fire department at 324-1111 and report exactly where you are. GET OUT FAST . . . In case of a fire, don't stop for anything. Do not try to rescue possessions or pets. Go directly to your meeting place, and then call the fire department from a neighbor's phone, a portable phone, or an alarm box. Every member of your household should know how to call the fire department. Crawl low under smoke. Smoke contains deadly gases, and heat rises. During a fire, cleaner air will be near the floor. If you encounter smoke when using your primary exit, use an alternative escape route. If you must exit through smoke, crawl on your hands and knees,keeping your head 12 to 24 inches (30 - 60 centimeters) above the floor. . . . and stay out Once you are out of your home, don't go back for any reason. If people are trapped, the firefighters have the best chance of rescuing them. The heat and smoke of a fire are overpowering. Firefighters have the training, experience, and protective equipment needed to enter burning buildings. Play IT Safe Smoke Detectors. More than half of all fatal home fires happen at night while people are asleep. Smoke detectors sound an alarm when a fire starts, waking people before they are trapped or overcome by smoke. With smoke detectors, your risk of dying in a home fire is cut nearly in half. Install smoke detectors outside every sleeping area and on every level of your home, including the basement. Follow installation instructions carefully, and test smoke detectors monthly. Change all smoke detector batteries at least once a year. If your detector is more than 10 years old, replace it with a new one. Automatic fire-sprinkler systems. These systems attack a fire in its early stages by spraying water only on the area where the fire has begun. Consider including sprinkler systems in plans for new construction and installing them in existing homes. NOW, use what you've learned, SET UP YOUR PLAN, including two ways out, a meeting place and CONDUCT A PRACTICE DRILL to determine if anything has been overlooked. EVERYONE in the household NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE for it to be successful. It may SAVE YOUR LIFE. IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT CAPTAIN JASON COLE AT (207) 457-1289.
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