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Visit our new Get Ready! disaster preparedness website for information that will help you and your family survive when disaster strikes Marin. All Marin residents are encouraged to take part in this simple, innovative training program. |
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| New SRA Fee |
Many residents in Marin live within the “State Responsibility Area” or SRA. These residents will soon receive a notice in the mail from the State Board of Equalization alerting them that a fee will be levied for fire prevention services. This is the result of legislation that was recently signed into law. The notice will advise them that they will be charged $150 for each habitable structure on their property. Marin residents will receive a $35 reduction in the fee given that they are currently protected by an organized fire department. Marin residents will be charged $115.
This fee is a result of a trailer bill, ABX1 29. The funds will be going to CAL-Fire. This fee is not an assessment from your local fire agency or the County of Marin. Requests for exemption or clarification should be directed to CAL-Fire and the BOE. Their contact information can be found here. You can also call 888-310-6447.
Property owners that live within a city limit will not be affected by this fee. An interactive map of the property owners that are affected can be found here
The actual bills are scheduled to be sent out beginning on August 13, 2012. They estimate that all bills will be sent out by October 2012.
Complete information about the new fee can be found at the California Fire Prevention Fee website. Click here.
| | Please check out our Facebook page! | Please take a look at our Facebook page to follow the Marin County Fire Department. Get up to the minute information on major incidents and hear about special events. Click here to go directly to our page.
| | Flash Mob at the Sausalito Art Festival |
The Marin County Fire Department in collaboration with the County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMSA), organized a flash mob at the Sausalito Art Festival over the Labor Day weekend. Over 50 dedicated volunteers from local hospitals, fire departments and other entities gathered on September 3rd to raise awareness about “Hands Only CPR”. This relatively new CPR technique does not require mouth to mouth breathing. A bystander that witnesses someone go into cardiac arrest, just has to call 9-1-1 and then press “hard and fast” in the center of the chest. This technique has been shown to save many, many lives.
The group gathered in front of the Artist's Stage at high noon to dance to the beat of Stayin' Alive. The music was chosen because it has a beat that matches the rate that you should press on the chest. The name of the song also sends a great message!
The “mob” was organized by Karrie Groves, from the EMS Agency and choreographed by Kerstin Stuart, a local dance instructor.
More information on Hands-Only CPR can be found at: www.handsonlycpr.org
A video of the flash mob can be viewed here.
| | Sidewalk CPR - 'Hands Only" | On Saturday, June 4th, personnel from the Marin County Fire Department participated in a county wide effort to train residents in "Hands Only CPR". This technique, approved by the American Heart Association, does not require mouth to mouth breathing to save a life. Over 1100 people were trained at 12 sites from Vista Point to Tomales. Watch the video here. For more information on this lifesaving technique, go the AHA website on hands only CPR.
| | Marin County Fire and Novato Fire Consolidate Fire Prevention Services | The Novato Fire District and the Marin County Fire Department announce a functional consolidation of their fire prevention bureaus for a one-year trial period. The consolidation creates a larger regional fire prevention bureau serving the North Bay communities of the Marin County Fire Department and the Novato Fire District. The combined fire prevention bureau features enhanced fire prevention and risk reduction capabilities. These improved capabilities include construction and fire sprinkler plan checks, public information and education, fire investigation, construction and compliance inspection services, local ordinance, code, and standards development and wildland urban interface risk reduction services. Read the press release here...
| | Now you can follow Marin County Fire on Twitter! |
| | Swine Influenza Information | Marin residents looking for information on the Swine Flu outbreak and updates from Marin Health and Human Services should visit www.marinflu.org.
| | NEW! Defensible Space Information |
Marin's wildlands are at their most vulnerable in September and October. This year has shown tat Northern California is especially primed for wildfire, and thousands of homes are vulnerable in Marin County alone. Please help us help you by creating Defensible Space. It's the law...
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Jason Weber,
Fire Chief
(415) 473-6717
Mark Brown,
Interim Deputy Chief
(415) 473-6717
Battalion Chiefs
(415) 473-6717
Fax (415) 473-2969
Mark Brown,
Training
(415) 473-6717
Mike Giannini, EMS
(415) 473-2595
Scott Alber,
Fire Marshal
(415) 473-6566
Fax (415) 473-4246
Kent Julin,
Forester
(415) 473-3759
Fax (415) 473-4246
Tim Walsh,
Fire Crew
(415) 717-1521
Phoenicia Thomas, Finance
(415) 473-2631
Kellie Sullivan, Finance
(415) 473-2731 |
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