Fire Siren
We wanted to share a quick note on how our community sirens work. The City of Ely owns/maintains 3 outdoor warning sirens. The sirens are used to promote situational awareness by alerting citizens who are outdoors of conditions within or approaching the community that pose a hazard and prompt them to go indoors and seek further information. Upon hearing outdoor warning sirens it is important that all persons immediately refer to local broadcast media (radio, TV, etc.) for additional information! Ely’s sirens can be set off remotely by Linn County EMA or from the Ely Fire Station by trained weather spotters. Two of these sirens have voice capability and you may hear a pre-recorded message. We follow the Linn County Outdoor Public Notification System plan which uses the following guidelines for the outdoor warning sirens throughout the various jurisdictions of Linn County. We do this in an effort to minimize confusion in emergency situations. TornadoesTornado Warning issued by the National Weather Service…
COVID-19 & The Ely Fire Department
Since the start of the quarantine, the Ely Fire Department has taken the following steps to ensure everyone’s safety: All medical equipment and trucks were cleaned with bleach water. Medical equipment is re-cleaned after each use. The station continues to be cleaned and re-cleaned. Per the guidelines of medical director over all emergency medical personnel in Linn County, we are: Wearing mask on all medical calls. Limiting the number of EMT’s working with patients to the bare minimum. Wear latex gloves while working with all patients. In some cases, we may be wearing a full body suits. The responding EMT will take a temperature and gather necessary information or let other EMT’s of what additional assistance is needed. Once a patient is in the ambulance and we are released, our mask are put in a paper sack (COVID-19 likes paper the least), our gloves are spayed with bleach and placed in a plastic trash bag along with the full body…