Legal Documents of Mosheim

The volunteer 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 town within adopted codes and ordinances;
9. To serve as the emergency agency of the town;
10. To protect the health and safety of the citizens from the transportation, storage, of 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 ensure that adequate water supplies for fire protection are available; and
12. To provide public fire education materials and information to the citizens in order that they may protect themselves from harm. (Ord. #127, July 1998)