The Painesville Township Fire Department started in 1966 after a contract with the Painesville City Fire Department was ended.
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Operating as usual
September 5, 1992 when President George HW Bush visited Painesville Township. He landed at the Lake County Fairgrounds and delivered a speech at the opening of Octoberfest. PTFD provided EMS and Fire protection for the President and First Lady.
Pictured are bottom row: (left) Jack Acker, Ron Terriaco, Chief Larry Thompson, Barry Dodd, Brent Bramley, Homer Varner, Chief Charlie Eisenhart (Fairport), Robert Landgraf
Top left; Gordon Thompson, George Moyer.
The Painesville Township Fire Department would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. We'd also like to remind you to be careful with the beginning of this snow event.
It looks like Christmas Eve and Christmas day are going to be very snowy! Rudolph should be getting a workout as Santa makes his way through Northeast Ohio! Please be careful and check on your neighbors!
Lake Health
We’re excited to announce that Lake Health is joining University Hospitals. In University Hospitals (UH), we have found a like-minded organization that shares the same vision for what health care could look like now and in the future. Lake Health will become UH’s flagship health care provider for Lake County and surrounding communities, which means you will still be able to receive outstanding care from the same doctors and nurses in the same locations that you do today. Learn more:
https://hubs.ly/H0CPqgX0
Painesville Twp. FD assisted Fairport FD at a fire on Plum St. about 6pm yesterday. 12/13/2020
Please make sure you water your live Christmas trees daily!
'Tis the season. As you begin to decorate for the holidays, please stay safe and water your trees daily! This video shows just how quickly a dried out Christmas tree fire burns, with flashover occurring in less than one minute, as compared to a well-watered tree, which burns at a much slower rate. More: www.nfpa.org/christmas
(Thanks to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for their assistance!)
Living in Northeast Ohio, we all knew this weather was coming. It looks like we will be seeing our first appreciable snowfall of the season. The NWS has issued a Winter storm watch lasting thru Wednesday. Some forecasts call for up to 12" of snow. We ask that you please be careful, slow down and check on your neighbors!
We would like to wish all of you a very Happy, Safe and Healthy Thanksgiving!
Ohio State Fire Marshal
It’s no secret Mother Nature can be a bit unpredictable. But when she gets together with Old Man Winter, all bets are off!
Know what to do before, during and after a winter storm with these tips from us and our friends at National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
#WinterSafetyAwarenessWeek OH Weather Awareness
Be prepared and be safe!
Be prepared for power outages tomorrow! Make sure you have everything you need charged just in case your power goes out due to high winds!
Thank You to all Veterans!
Today we are posting a link to fire safety videos that you can share with your children from preschool through 5th grade. These videos review all of our fire safety posts from National Fire Prevention Week. Please review them with your children. As we have stated, they will not receive in person fire safety programs in the schools due to Covid restrictions. This concludes our posts for Fire Prevention Week. We will continue to share information and fire safety tips throughout the year. Thank you!
https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/
The NFPA and Sparky provide resources for teaching fire safety including apps, videos, lesson plans and activities.
Today is the last day of National Fire Prevention Week. Today's topic is:
Heating
• Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires during the
winter months.
• Space heaters are the type of equipment most often involved in home
heating equipment fires.
• All heaters need space. Keep anything that can burn at least 3 feet (1
meter) away from heating equipment.
• Have a 3-foot (1-metre) “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heaters.
• Purchase and use only portable space heaters listed by a qualified
testing laboratory.
• Have a qualified professional install heating equipment.
• Maintain heating equipment and chimneys by having them cleaned
and inspected by a qualified professional at least once a year.
Here's some more information for National Fire Prevention Week. Please review this with your children. As we mentioned earlier in the week, many of them will not receive any in-school fire safety programs due to Covid restrictions. We're counting on parents to get involved with fire safety! Today's topic is:
Home Fire Escape Planning and Practice
Home fire escape planning should include the following:
• Drawing a map of each level of the home, showing all doors and
windows
• Going to each room and pointing to the two ways out
• Making sure someone will help children, older adults, and people
with disabilities wake up and get out
• Teaching children how to escape on their own in case you cannot
help them
• Establishing a meeting place outside and away from the home
where everyone can meet after exiting
• Having properly installed and maintained smoke alarms
• Pushing the smoke alarm button to start the drill
• Practicing what to do in case there is smoke: Get low and go. Get out
fast.
• Practicing using different ways out and closing doors behind you as
you leave
• Never going back for people, pets, or things
• Going to your outdoor meeting place
• Calling 9-1-1 or the local emergency number from a cell phone
or a neighbor’s phone.
Continuing our National Fire Prevention Week messages, today we want to talk about:
Cooking
• Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
Thanksgiving is the leading day for fires involving cooking equipment.
• The leading cause of fires in the kitchen is unattended cooking.
• Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, boiling, grilling, or broiling food.
• If you are simmering, baking, or roasting food, check it regularly and stay in
the home.
• Always keep a lid nearby when cooking. If a small grease fire starts, slide the
lid over the pan and turn off the burner. Leave the pan covered until it’s cool.
• Keep anything that can catch fire away from your stovetop.
• Loose clothing can hang down onto stove burners and catch fire. Wear short,
close-fitting, or tightly rolled sleeves when cooking.
• Have a “kid-free zone” of at least 3 feet (1 metre) around the stove and areas
where hot food or drink is prepared or carried.
Today's topic for National Fire Prevention Week is:
Smoke Alarms
• Smoke alarms detect and alert people to a fire in the early stages. Smoke
alarms can mean the difference between life and death in a fire.
• Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire in half.
• Install smoke alarms in every sleeping room, outside each separate
sleeping area, and on every level of the home, including the basement.
• Test smoke alarms at least once a month using the test button.
• Make sure everyone in the home understands the sound of the smoke alarm
and knows how to respond.
Continuing our Fire Prevention Week messages, today we would like to talk about:
Heating
• Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires during the
winter months.
• Space heaters are the type of equipment most often involved in home
heating equipment fires.
• All heaters need space. Keep anything that can burn at least 3 feet (1
meter) away from heating equipment.
• Have a 3-foot (1-metre) “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heaters.
• Purchase and use only portable space heaters listed by a qualified
testing laboratory.
• Have a qualified professional install heating equipment.
• Maintain heating equipment and chimneys by having them cleaned
and inspected by a qualified professional at least once a year.
It's Fire Prevention Week. Good time to check and review detectors, extinguishers and escape plans.
We would like to wish our Accelerant Detection K-9 Theo, and our retired K-9 Ian a happy National Dog Day! The dogs were featured on WKYC Channel 3 news today for National Dog Day.
https://www.wkyc.com/video/life/pets/national-dog-day-theo/95-df18b41a-8eb7-4dba-a3f9-e1f860815ab6
Aug. 26, 2020: Theo is a special dog. He's one of only about 60 accelerant-detection dogs in the country. Theo's work has taken him across the country.
Painesville Township FD responded to the incident listed below last night along with the Lake County Sheriff's Office. We'd like to thank Perry Joint Fire District for their assistance.
In all 4 people were transported to Tripoint Medical Center and several were then transferred to MetroHealth for further care.
Press Release: 8/24/2020
Felonious Assault
On August 24, 2020 at approximately 0015 Hrs., Lake County Sheriff’s Office Road Patrol units responded to the area of N. Ridge Rd. between Bacon Rd. and Fairport Nursery Rd. in Painesville Township to investigate reports of an adult female who was running in the area and yelling for help while covered in blood. The female was soon located and identified, and the ensuing investigation revealed a total of five involved individuals, all of whom were homeless and had been residing in tents in a wooded area near that location.
Deputies quickly learned an altercation had taken place in the wooded area and one of the males residing in the woods used a hand-held saw, similar to that of a hand-held miter box saw, to injure the other four including one female and three males. All but one victims were able to flee the scene until help arrived. The four injured parties all sustained lacerations from the saw and were all transported to local hospitals. Their injuries ranged from moderate to severe and life threatening.
Deputies were able to quickly locate the male suspect nearby and take him into custody. He was booked into the Lake County Jail and charged with Felonious Assault, however the investigation is ongoing and additional charges are expected. The suspect’s identity will be released after he is formally arraigned.
Capt. Robert Izzo
Ohio Department of Transportation District 12 Cleveland
Vrooman Rd. southbound is Now Open!
Our Accelerant Detection K-9 Theo and his handler, Lt Thompson, have been working in the city of Chicago for the last week along with two other K-9 teams from across the US. Several other teams are deployed in Minnesota and other cities across the Country. Our K-9 team is part of the ATF National Response Team and subject to deployment anywhere in the US. There are currently only 61 ATF K-9 teams in the US.
Ohio Department of Transportation District 12 Cleveland
Traffic Alert: Many main roads into downtown Cleveland have been closed at the request of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, including I-90 westbound at I-271, and SR 2 westbound in Willowick at the Innerbelt curve. Please use caution when approaching the area and stay safe.
Schedule change...
There has been a change on the flights over Lake County on Monday morning May 4th that we have received word on. The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds will not be flying over Lake County on Monday. However C-130s will be flying over ashtabula and Lake county headed out to the hospitals in Cleveland and returning. The flights will come through between 10:30 and 11:30 AM on Monday. I wanted to get word out to you as quickly as possible of the change as soon as we were made aware. 
Sheriff Frank Leonbruno
YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, OHIO – The 910th Airlift Wing is launching ‘Hercs Over America’ on Monday, May 4, 2020, as a way for our Air Force Reserve family to salute the thousands of healthcare workers, essential employees and other first responders on the front line of the battle against COVID-19.
This ‘salute’ flyover, consisting of two of the 910th’s C-130H Hercules aircraft, is scheduled to take place over the following medical facilities during the late morning hours of Monday, May 4, 2020.
The 910th’s aircraft will kick off ‘Hercs Over America’ over UPMC Hamot Primary in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The two-ship formation will then proceed to the Cleveland area to salute workers at these health care facilities: The Cleveland VA Hospital; University Hospital Ahuja Medical Center – Beachwood; University Hospital Cleveland Main Campus; Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital; Cleveland Clinic Main Campus; Metro Health – Cleveland and Fairview Hospital – Cleveland.
The C-130s will then head to Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio and Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio.
The 910th aircraft will conclude ‘Hercs Over America’ in the skies above St. Joseph Medical Center in Warren, Ohio; St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio and St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boardman, Ohio.
The 910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Office will contact each of the locations listed above directly to notify them of the approximate timeframe the flyover salutes will occur over their respective facilities.
As with many Air Force Reserve community engagement flying activities, these flyovers are scheduled to occur during one of the wing’s training missions and will incur no additional cost to taxpayers.
Area residents should be able to see the flyover from the safety of their homes, via media broadcasts or on the 910th’s social media platforms. The 910th encourages maintaining social distancing guidelines during this event. Area residents should also refrain from traveling to hospitals or gathering in large groups to view the flyover.
The 910th’s Reserve Citizen Airmen are proud to serve alongside the first responders and essential personnel in the COVID-19 response efforts. We are all in this together. These selfless Americans on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 remind us we can rise to meet any challenge with unrivaled spirit and commitment.
NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY: News media outlets planning coverage of this event should contact the 910th
Painesville Township Fire Department is proud to announce that our new fire engine 2723 is officially in service. 2723 runs out of station#2 on Bowhall Rd. The old engine will move to reserve status.
Governor Mike DeWine
Today I announced details of our new #ResponsibleRestartOhio plan. This plan for #Ohio will slowly, methodically open certain sectors with certain mandatory requirements ⬇
➡ Manufacturing, distribution, and construction: https://bit.ly/2KDdlfr
➡ General office environments: https://bit.ly/2Sb4w0o
➡ Consumer, Retail & Services: https://bit.ly/3bIY4FR
Some businesses must remain closed, particularly those that place individuals at an increased risk of potential #COVID19 exposure ➡ https://bit.ly/3bM5hVu
Visit coronavirus.ohio.gov/ResponsibleRestartOhio for all the details of Ohio's plan to restart the economy and keep citizens safe.
#InThisTogetherOhio
#StaySafeOhio
#StayHomeOhio
Painesville Township Fire Department along with Perry FD responded to 2481 North Ridge for a report of a vehicle into a building. Upon arrival our crews found a single vehicle accident with a vehicle partially through the building. The Lake County Building Department is on scene evaluating the structure. There were no injuries and the Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accident.
Our members were taking advantage of the sunshine today to do some training. Switching over from our onboard tank water to a supplied fire hydrant water source before running out of tank water. Something we do on every working structure fire. Keeping our skills sharp as we social distance. Stay safe everyone. 🚒🇺🇸.....
Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters
In these confusing and uncertain times, we are seeing lots of misinformation on social media and some websites regarding COVID19. People are understandably concerned and want to know that they are safe. Our fire department is doing everything in our power to make sure our personnel are equipped with the proper gear to keep them safe and provide our residents with the best possible care they can. Along with most departments, we are experiencing equipment shortages and working with our partners to address those shortages. If you have any questions please consider referencing the Lake County General Health District website. There you will also find links to the Ohio Department of Health, CDC and World Health Organization.
https://www.lcghd.org/2019-novel-coronavirus-ncov/
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – U.S. case information updated at 12:00 noon daily Monday – Friday
550 Hardy Rd
Painesville, OH
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Annual pump testing, engine 2713 and quint 2799 both passed
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104 E Erie StLake County Counts 2020 Census
105 Main St.Lake County Board of Elections
105 Main St Suite 107Lake County Ohio Veterans Service Office
Lake County Administration Bldg, 105 Main StCounty Commissioner John Hamercheck
105 Main St.Lake County, OH: Career Opportunities
105 Main StreetBoard of Lake County Commissioners Senior Ser
105 Main St.
Lake County Prosecutor Victim Assistance Prog
Court House East Annex P.O. Box 490
Lake County Ohio Veterans Service Office
Lake County Administration Bldg, 105 Main St
Lake County Juvenile Court, Judge Karen Lawso
53 E Erie St
Lake County Planning & Community Development
105 Main Street Suite B401
The Lake County Children and Adult Services D
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