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Please join us in congratulating our members.

The following members have achieved the following accomplishments during the month of July:

Engine 64: Connor Dayton, Allen Williams, Levi Weis

Engine 65: Allen Williams, Austin Heineken

EMT/Aider: Alex Kindred

EMT 3-A: Zachary Hughes

Along with FF Dayton and FF Williams check offs this month they have obtained the status of “Driver” with Steese Volunteer Fire Department.

Congratulations to Alan Heineken!! He started his new job as a firefighter with The City of Fairbanks Fire Department.

Thank you to everyone who helped with their training, testing and check-offs.

We are happy to welcome four new Live in Scholarship Firefighters to our Department. Alex Kindred is here from Thorne Bay, AK, Kain McAfee from Bellevue, WA, Spencer Bourque from Olympia, WA, and Lisa Peterson has moved from the volunteer ranks to the scholarship program.

All of these folks will be attending the CTC Summer Fire Academy & will be ready to respond in August

At our recent banquet the following members were promoted please join us in congratulating them on their accomplishments.

We had five member earn their promotion from Firefighter to Engineer; Ruth Church, Collin Hagerty, Zachary Hughes, Evan Kressly & Ian Morey.

Engineer/MICP Ruth Church & Chief Mitch Flynn

Engineer/EMT Collin Hagerty & Chief Flynn

Engineer/EMT Zachary Hughes & Chief Mitch Flynn

Engineer/EMT Evan Kressly & Chief Mitch Flynn

Engineer/EMT Ian Morey & Chief Mitch Flynn

Engineer/MICP Ian Longridge was promoted  to Captain.

Captain Ian Longridge & Chief Mitch Flynn

Captain Andrew Rossow was promoted to Battalion Chief.

Valerie Rossow pinning Battalion Chief Rossow’s new badge

Battalion Andrew Rossow, Valerie Rossow & Chief Mitch Flynn

Captain Frank Bracken was promoted  to Assistant Chief

Karen Bracken pinning Assistant Chief Bracken’s new badge

Assistant Chief Frank Bracken, Karen Bracken & Chief Mitch Flynn

Please join us in congratulating the following members on recently achieving Lead Medic status with the department.

Blayde Briske

Ruth Church

Bethany Flynn

Linsey Murphy

and

Ethan Reyes

Steese Volunteer Fire Department invites the submission of sealed bids from Authorized Dealers for one (1) Fire Vehicle, SUV (pursuit rated), AWD

Bids for the above will be received no later than February 15, 2016 by 4:00 PM, at 800 William C. Leary Lane, Fairbanks, AK 99712 at which time they will be opened and recorded.

Interested parties may download the Request for Quotation specifications HERE.

Firefighters Allan Heineken, Ethan Reyes and Connor Dayton recently were authorized to operate all of SVFD’s Tenders.

Firefighter Collin Hagerty recently was authorized to operate Engine 65

Firefighter Zachary Hughes was authorized to operated Engine 64.

We want to congratulate our Firefighters on their accomplishments and keep up the hard work, it is appreciated.

Just as we had finished setting up for the Christmas party we got an EMS call.

Station 62 is the main duty station so we have a large amount of live-ins and on duty crew so the kitchen can get pretty busy during meal times; thanks to a State Legislative grant we were able to remodel the kitchen. The old space was cramped, lacked storage space, didn’t have enough cooking areas (stoves, microwaves)and didn’t have enough room for everyone to eat together. We were able to take down a wall to add floor space and we removed a window so more cabinets could be added. New flooring, cabinets and counter tops were installed, the new space is spacious, sanitary and allows the crews to eat together. We are so grateful that we were able to receive this grant and make the much needed improvements.