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New Village Spotlight Series Highlights the Mariemont Fire Department Over the next several months, we will be highlighting the various Mariemont Village departments, committees and roles that serve our unique community. In the first of this series, we highlight the Mariemont Fire Department.
cut up the limb and remove it from the roadway. The service department than came and removed the limb from the island for disposal.
For example, an emergency call this past summer involved a local cable company service member who fell from a phone pole. With appropriate training of our members, we were able to start patient care while simultaneously setting up a rope system to then bring the patient out from a heavily wooded embankment approximately fifty feet below stable ground.
By Dan Copeland, Assistant Fire Chief The Village of Mariemont Fire Department is celebrating its 95th year of service to the community. The department is staffed and modeled like no other department around and is as unique as the Village itself. The department is led by a joint Police and Fire Chief, Richard Hines, who is not only responsible for all operations of the Village Police Department, he also has met the qualifications to be a state certified firefighter. The Assistant Chief, Dan Copeland, regulates department operations, safety planning, public education classes, fire department’s budget and payroll, standard operating procedures, incident command, and is the direct supervisor of all department daily operations. The Captain, Jim Henderson, oversees staffing, hiring, safety inspections, and the servicing of all of the Village’s fire hydrants. All members work a twelve or twenty-fourhour shift, responding to a variety of not only emergency calls, but also public service needs, and assist with numerous Village activities throughout the day. On Saturday, July 17, your fire department responded to a call for a large tree limb that fell into the roadway, obstructing transit. Being a weekend, the public service department requested that the fire department respond and assess the situation. The on duty crew was able to
rescue specializations such as structural collapse, rope rescue, machine entrapment, water rescue, and various other disciplines that ensure we are prepared for any emergency the residents call for.
All members have been selected to represent the Village and serve the community through a hiring process based on recommendations, experience, and level of certifications. Every day, there are up to four members on duty with the ability to perform advanced lifesaving interventions. Of these members, at least one is a qualified Fire Apparatus Operator, and one is a Lieutenant or Acting Supervisor. The daily officer has been selected based on training, time of service with the Village, and has completed an interview process along with a training prerequisite that tests Village and responsibilities of a command officer. Did you know? All members are certified in Firefighting and hold certifications as an Emergency Medical Technician or as a state certified Paramedic. Many of the members are certified Fire and/or EMS instructors, public safety inspectors, and have many other certifications that benefit the community. Numerous members are qualified in technical
The forty members of our Mariemont Village Fire Department have over 1,000 years of combined experience at high call volume departments all around the Tri-state. All members must recertify all certifications by completing a set number of continuing education hours required by the State of Ohio for each discipline. Many members are part of elite organizations like Ohio Task Force 1 and Hamilton County Urban Search and Rescue. These groups are deployed to incidents locally, nationally, and around the world to assist with major incidents and tragedies. They have responded to large incidents like hurricane Katrina, the Surfside building collapse in Miami, and the tragic events on 9/11 in New York City. The Mariemont Fire Department is not only staffed by some of the best professionals in the area, the members are proud to serve the Village and enjoy the opportunity to be a part of one of the finest agencies in the area. We continue to serve the community with professionalism and continue to give the residents the service they deserve and work in compliance with the other Village service departments to ensure a better community for all.