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.
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…