PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8-5-2009
Danville WV - The Danville Volunteer Fire Department is happy to announce that over the course of the past two weeks, we have ran a "test" of station staffing during the weekends and the test was a complete success. From 8am Saturday morning until 8pm Sunday night, the volunteers of at the Danville Fire Department will be manning the station, on a completely volunteer basis, with a full crew of fire fighters. The manning of the stations will allow for more training and general maintenance and clean-up of the fire station & apparatus, and most importantly, this will substantially decrease response times on the weekends. The staffing will include an officer trainee, two fire fighters and either a senior engineer or officer to assist in training of the other members. Also on staff will be a Chief officer, either on-call or at the station, for more serious incidents. Other fire fighters will also be assigned as needed. As per usual, additional members will be responding to calls from their homes, etc.
This move was made as a suggestion by the membership and has so far proven over these last several weeks to be very beneficial during emergency responses. Chief John Holstein said "...having these members staff the station has dramatically improved response times on the weekends. While response times were low per national standards, normally under 3 minutes, with the additional staffing of the station, we're seeing response times decrease to under one minute. That's something to strive for. Response times like that help save lives and property."
