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Updated: January 9, 2021

Recent Grants

The Ely Fire Department has recently received the 2020 Theisen’s More for Your Community-award. We received the 2020 Theisen’s More For Your Community-Award. Theisen’s worked with us on a 50/50 grant to purchase 4 FLIR K2 Thermal Imaging Camera’s (TICs). These TICs will be used for search and rescue and overall.

Updated: May 6, 2020

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…

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Links of Interest

  • Kids Safety Page
  • City of Ely
  • Iowa Department of Public Health
  • Iowa Emergency Medical Services
  • Iowa Fireman’s Association
  • Iowa Homeland Security
  • Linn County
  • Linn County Burn Permits
  • State Fire Service

Area Fire Departments

  • Ely Fire Photos
  • Cedar Rapids Fire Dept.
  • Coralville Fire Dept.
  • Hiawatha Fire Dept.
  • Lisbon Fire Dept.
  • Mount Vernon Fire Dept.
  • North Liberty Fire Dept.
  • West Bertram Fire Dept.
  • Jefferson Monroe FD
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