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Newcomers 2007

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Heights firefighters always prepared

ambulance.

From staff reports

HHFD  responds  to  all  emer-

HARKER HEIGHTS -- Twenty-four

gency calls with a minimum of two

hours a day seven days a week, the Harker

,

firefighters/paramedics.

Heights Fire Department is ready to re-

HHFD/EMS was honored as the 1999

spond to medical and fire emergencies.

Public EMS Provider of the Year by the

The staff of 30 firefighters and emer-

Texas Department of Health.

gency medical technicians and six ad-

Residents receive a response time of

ministrators are led by Harker Heights

less than five minutes, day or night, once

the department receives the call.

Fire Department Chief Jack Collier.

The command staff, supervisors

For families with young children, the

and firefighter/paramedics are highly

HHFD has several trained car seat tech-

trained and keep the residents of Harker

nicians who can assist residents in in-

Heights in mind with all that they do.

stalling children's car seats. Other pro-

"Since I have been here, we are try-

grams the department has to assist its

ing to increase our rescue training," Col-

residents include Thanksgiving and

lier said.

Santa baskets, Santa Pal and free smoke

Firefighters have recently received

detectors to those residents who need

training in swift-water rescue and con-

them.

fined space rescues to reduce the need of

Currently HHFD responds from two

,

having to rely on other fire departments'

fire stations, but HHFD is looking to

specialities.

build a third fire station in the south-

eastern part of the city probably along

,

HHFD has a quint (a fire engine/lad-

der truck) that reaches 75 feet into the

2410.

air, two other fire engines, two frontline

In 2007, HHFD also applied for a grant

called Staffing for Adequate Fire and

Mobile Care Units, two boats for water

Emergency Response from the Depart-

rescue, two brush trucks for brush and

ment of Homeland Security The grant

.

grass, a mobile command center servic-

ing the Central Texas Council of Gov-

would supply funding for HHFD to hire

ernments, and one reserve engine and

five more firefighters.

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