Keep Perkinsville Fire Dept in Perkinsville!

Everyone knows that the Wayland Fire Department reponds quicker to fire calls in Perkinsville then their very own Perkinsville Fire Department does. In order to keep people safe and alive we need Wayland Fire Company to keep 99% of the Town of Wyland in their protective and quick-responding hands! Keep Perkinsville Fire Department in Perkinsville and left as the support role for Wayland!

I agree. The problem is that most of the town board are members of Perkinsville FD. I have been told that the town board has 1 active member, 1 life member, and 2 "social" members. So you have members of the Perkinsville FD making the contract with the 2 fire departments on behalf of the town.
I think that anybody on the town board with a relationship to either fire department should abstain from negotiations and voting on any fire contract.

I think that Wayland has a much better record for response and if I were to have a fire ,it would be Waylands finest I would like to come. And it is my understanding that Perkinsville isnt even equiped with the right tools and equipment to respond to alot of the calls or training as far as that goes. Please leave well enough alone.

to have a fire dept that respondes with 7 personal vehicles and 3 trucks with 3 drivers is not going to cut it. perkinsville had better stick with making breakfast and tanking water, because that is what they truley do the best with. if my house were on fire i would want the dept with the training to save lifes not put lives in jeopardy. that call would be the wayland fire dept as the first responding dept. not the perkinsville fire dept. as a taxpayer there is no question . the answer is easy.. the town board is made up of perkinsville residents. o no wonder.. loon lake, interstate 390, perk fire? are u people crazy....

as a town taxpayer i think wayland fire dept should consider becoming a fire district. the heck with perk. i agree with the other comment earlier, perk should stick with making breakfast and hauling water. i recall a fire last year across from the perkinsville fire hall and they were the last ones there. what does that tell u people? who was putting the fire out? was the fire dept with the white trucks not the red ones....... maybe im mistaken perk had a truck there with a driver! lets get our heads out of our asses people.

Maybe as tax payers we should be asking the town board why they are entering into 2 fire contracts. What is perkinsville offering for $44,000 a year? Why did the board not budget the surcharge monies paid to the Village to help purchase Wayland's new resuce truck? That was not sprung on them all of a sudden they knew about that for 4 or 5 years. Now they had to raise taxes. Maybe they should not have given Perkinsville an extra $14,000 in their budget this year to help possibly purchase a new rescue truck. There is already one sitting in wayland. You should'nt get paid that much for offering a tanker. Is perkinsville even NFPA or OSHA compiant? The problem in perkinsville is there are some older members who are pushing Walt Drum Jr. to pursue these crazy ideas they have and they are brainwashing the town board with all they have to offer, but they have nothing to offer. Maybe Perkinsville needs someone like John Wagner Sr. or Norb Huber Jr. in as Chief to get the Department going back the way it used to be. Kudos to the Village of Wayland for not signing a contract that would have given perkinsville the majority of the Town of Wayland to cover. Even though they aren't elected officals of the Town, they had the Town taxpayers in mind when they kept rejecting the ridiculous contracts written by the Town Board(Jody Tonkery). As taxpayers we need to start going to board meetings, voicing our opinions and asking questions or things liek this happen.

I just saw this thread and I don't like the tone of some of the posts. There are some personality issues at play, but let's throw some hard facts into the mix.

Visit:
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/fire/pdfs/finy/07p...

Now, scroll down to Steuben County. Notice that in 2007, Perkinsville FD responded to 24 calls. Wayland FD responded to 168 calls. These stats do not include ambulance calls and Wayland provides 2 ambulances while Perkinsville does not provide any EMS service at all.

Wayland FD Ambulance responded to 329 EMS calls in 2007 and 376 EMS calls in 2008.

So, to sum it up, in 2007, Wayland FD and Ambulance responded to a combined 497 calls. Perkinsville responded to a total of 24 calls. In 2007, the Town of Wayland paid both departments about the same. I believe it was 44,000. Based on those numbers, in 2007, town taxpayers paid an average of $88.53 per call for Wayland FD and $1833.33 per call for Perkinsville FD. Which is a better deal for the taxpayers in the Town of Wayland?

To be completely open, I am a member of the Wayland Ambulance, but I am also a town taxpayer and a local businessman. My allegiance to my wallet is stronger than any allegiance I have to any fire department. We need to take the emotion out of these discussions and look at facts, while also looking at the best way to keep taxes low. Any new contract should look at the total call volume as well as the quality of the response.

The data I presented above on fire call volume is publicly posted on the NYS website above and fire protection costs are presented in the reports at: http://www.openbooknewyork.com
EMS statistics for 2008 are posted in the Fire Hall and monthly ambulance reports are presented to the Village Board.

had breakfast at south dansville fd today. meal was great .. perkinsville might as well give up there breakfasts too. they s ck......

When I'm laying there with my hands clutching my chest cause I'm dying from a heart attack I wouldn't care if it was perk, wayland or the stonybrook ranger helping me out, get real people when you need them and there not there thats when you'll prey to god they were.

Motzart, I agree with your sentiment, but the qualifier should be which service is equipped to help someone. Out of the 3 agencies you mention, Wayland is the best equipped and trained, but I would choose the Park ranger over Perkinsville. Rangers and other law enforcement officials are required to receive regular CPR training and many carry defibrillators in their vehicles. Ultimately, the best option for a heart attack would be the nearest ambulance and the nearest ALS fly car. Without an ambulance, you can't transport a patient and an ALS fly car has virtually all of the equipment and medications that the ER would use for the first half hour of almost any patient call. The nearest ALS fly car is M-78 out of Dansville, but they are only a 16 hour unit. From approximately 11 PM to 7 AM, our closest ALS is either M-79 out of Geneseo or ALS-102 out of Bath.

Perk does not offer any EMS services and when the Wayland FD asked them, on several occasions over the past couple of years, if they would be interested in helping out with Ambulance staffing, the response we received was "We do not do EMS."

We are always looking for people interested in helping the EMS service, whether it is as an Emergency Medical Technician or as a Driver. Wayland FD Ambulance currently has 15 EMTs and 2 other members who should be certified as EMTs within the next month. We also have at least 1 more member going into the next EMT class.

If anybody is interested in helping our community by joining either the fire department or the ambulance service, let me know or talk to any other member of the department. Any member of the department is eligible for class sponsorships, so there is no out of pocket expense for the EMT or Firefighter classes.

Motzart wrote:

When I'm laying there with my hands clutching my chest cause I'm dying from a heart attack I wouldn't care if it was perk, wayland or the stonybrook ranger helping me out, get real people when you need them and there not there thats when you'll prey to god they were.

i hope you are never laying there cutching your chest or have a need for any medical treatment at all and have perkinsville or the stonybrook ranger show up. they have no medical training nor do they have an ambulance to transport you. have they been asked to help wayland with e.m.s.? they sure have numerous times but to no evail.

mozart.... i feel as if i know u. life in washington... whole foods... local connections....grew up in wayland springwater area... lunch......mob rules....lol

hi uncle d

Let wayland do what they have been doing for years a [great job] Let perk do what they have done for years, watch wayland put out the fires.

perkinsville does a great job also. this isnt just about putting out fires that is a very small portion of what they both do. what this is about is a waste of taxpayers money, duplication of services, and putting way to much equipment on the road for no reason at all other than one department wants more calls. there should not be 2 departments responding to a call that can be handled by 1. if there is a structure fire you can be sure that one department is going to call the other along with all the neighboring departments. the public's safety is first and foremost and sending 2 departments to a line down or tree down or trash can fire in putting the public's safety in harm's way, ridiculous, and not needed.

rescue... no.. squad truck ....yes. with a hand ful of tools and a 214,000 dollar truck.. yes a waste of my taxpayer money. it will still show up with 1 driver and no guys with maybe 3-4 airpacks. great nice job WALT DRUM JR..

Thank your Wayland Town Board members for thinking of themselves not the taxpayers.

Perkinsville is disfunctional at best. Pull their equipment into Wayland and do away with the massive waste of money.