Mutual Aid To Genoa

January 4th 2012

At 0544 Lansing Fire Department was dispatched to a reported structure fire at 619 Conlon Rd in Lansing. Shortly after, dispatch notified responding Lansing apparatus that there was no fire at this location, however, Genoa was requesting one tanker, one heavy rescue, and manpower to 610 Cowan Rd for a working structure fire. Lansing personnel assisted Cayuga County until 0758.

Responding Apparatus:

• 1141 Heavy Rescue
• 1121 Tanker

Responding Personnel:

• Chief Scott Purcell
• Deputy Chief Brad George
• 3rd Assistant Chief Timothy Myers
• Captain Scott Walters
• 1st Lieutenant Darin Buck
• 3rd Lieutenant Tom Smith
• Interior Firefighter Jim Jackson Jr
• Interior Firefighter Jeff Simons
• Interior Firefighter Butch Crozier

Station Five - To Be Demolished

Village Fire Station To Be Demolished

Lansing Fire Commissioners voted Tuesday to solicit bids to demolish the Village of Lansing fire station.  District officials have long considered replacing the facility, at first because it is too small for modern emergency equipment, and now because the building has been determined to have deteriorated to the point where it is considered unsafe.  That has accelerated a plan to raze the current building and replace it on the same property at 119 Oakcrest Road.

"We are trying to work with the Village so it fits into the area down there," says Fire Commissioner Jeff Walters.  "Instead of having the big double doors we're going to go with single doors and go with earth tone colors like they have at the malls so it doesn't look commercial on that road.  We know we want to go with a peak roof.  A flat roof would look more commercial." 

Well over 50% of Lansing's 911 calls come from the Village with the malls and its many apartment complexes, but the station there has been inadequate for years.  District officials planned a new station in 2005 that would allow large fire equipment to drive into fire station bays from the back so they would be pointing forward to be ready to respond to emergencies in a similar configuration to Central Station in the Town.

At that time Village officials did not want a new fire station on Oakcrest Road, which they hoped to turn into a strictly residential area.  They tentatively offered a spot on the Village campus, which they expected to increase in usable space with the demolition of an old water tank behind the Village office building.  But Village and fire officials never did agree on a location, and Fire Commissioners killed the project in 2008 because estimates of nearly $4 million were twice as much as they had anticipated. 

Last month Walters presented a report from a building consultant who detailed deterioration so severe that it was not considered worth repairing.  A more financially modest plan calls for a four bay Morton building set back 12 feet from Oakcrest Road to allow emergency equipment more space to back into the equipment bays.  The current fire station has two bays, so the new building will double the capacity, offering sizable bays that modern fire trucks will fit into.

Read more: http://lansingstar.net/news-archive/7850-village-fire-station-to-be-demolished#ixzz1g4wfHFC2

Credit: Lansing Star - http://lansingstar.net - Author - Dan Veaner

Lansing Industrial Fire

Industrial Warehouse Fire

At 0206 Lansing Fire Department was dispatched to an automatic alarm at MPL Inc. located at 41 Dutch Mill Rd. Within ten minutes Lansing duty chief Darrell Rhoads arrived on scene in 1167 to find light smoke coming out of the eaves of the building. A second alarm was toned out, brining additional resources including an engine and an aerial from Cayuga Heights and one engine and an aerial from Ithaca Fire department. Firefighters worked for about an hour and a half extinguishing the fire and another hour checking the building. The building suffered heavy damage to the roof and the office space at the front of the building, but the manufacturing area did not appear to be affected.

Lansing firefighters remained at the building until 0930 with investigators from the Ithaca Fire Department, who determined that a malfunction in the building's furnace was the cause.

There was no one in the building when the fire started, and the building's fire protection system notified an alarm company who called the 911 center to report the fire.

2012 Department Election Results

2012 Department Election Results

Office Of the Cheifs:

Scott Purcell - Chief - 1161

Brad George - Deputy Chief - 1162

Dennis Griffin - 1st Assistant Chief - 1163

Mike Drake - 2nd Assistant Chief - 1164

Timmy Myers - 3rd Assistant Chief - 1165

Line Officers:

Scott Walters - Captian - 1181

Darin Buck - 1st Lieutenant - 1182

Jason Berga - 2nd Lieutenant - 1183

Tom Smith - 3rd Lieutenant - 1184

Daniel Pine - 4th Lieutenant - 1185

Department Officers:

Bob Wagner - President

Kristie Oplinger - Vice President

Debra Bell - Secretary

Director of Active Line - Frank Towner

Director of Active Staff - Tonya Reynolds