Legal Documents of Baneberry

The fire department shall have as its objectives:

1. To prevent uncontrolled fires from starting.
2. To prevent the loss of life and property because of fires.
3. To confine fires to their places of origin.
4. To extinguish uncontrolled fires.
5. To prevent loss of life from asphyxiation or drowning.
6. To perform such rescue work as its equipment and/or the training of its personnel makes practicable.
7. To provide emergency medical care at the highest level that the equipment and training of the personnel makes practicable.
8. To provide code enforcement and building inspections as directed by the city within adopted codes and ordinances.
9. To assist emergency management agency of the city.
10. To protect the health and safety of the citizens from the transportation, storage, or manufacture of hazardous materials to the extent possible that the level of equipment and training will allow.
11. To work with the water department to insure that adequate water supplies for fire protection are available.
12. To provide public fire education materials and information to the citizens in order that they may protect themselves from harm. (Ord. #206-1, May 2006, as amended by Ord. #216-1, Feb. 2016)