{"id":49142,"date":"2014-02-20T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T23:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=49142"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:46:37","slug":"edwards-fire-department-wins-coveted-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/02\/20\/edwards-fire-department-wins-coveted-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards Fire Department wins coveted award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Edwards Fire Department will now compete at the Department of Defense level for consideration to win the 2013 DOD Fire and Emergency Services Award. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jet Fabara)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EDWARDS AFB \u2013 The Edwards Fire Department was recognized this month with the 2013 AFMC Fire and Emergency Services Award for best Large Fire Department in Air Force Materiel Command.<\/p>\n

“Our Edwards firefighters typically come to duty for a 72-hour tour, so for our team to be recognized like this is really an honor. Every base in the command competes annually in the small, medium and large department category, so there’s a large pool of skilled participants and you don’t know where you place until it’s announced,” said Klaus Koepp, 412th Civil Engineering Directorate deputy fire chief.<\/p>\n

According to Koepp, the base has five geographically-located fire stations and a command center on main base.<\/p>\n

“Each fire station has a structural capability much like city fire departments. Three of our stations support flight activities with specialized crash and rescue equipment, and one station supports our main hazardous material response team,” added Koepp. “Another fire station maintains our Urban Search and Rescue or USAR trailer stocked with heavy rescue equipment.”<\/p>\n

During 2013, the fire department assisted surrounding county fire departments with mutual aid support along with numerous vehicle accidents on local highways where team intervention and assistance were critical in improving the victim’s chances of survival, Koepp said.<\/p>\n

“This year we encountered a lot of challenges, to include a confined space rescue operation from a rail car in Mojave, where our Hazmat team provided air monitoring and technical assistance during the successful rescue,” said Koepp. “We also provided a significant amount of support to flight test programs for Air Force, contractor and private companies testing aircraft here at Edwards. 2013 was also a year in which we had no reportable fires.”<\/p>\n

From here, the department will now represent AFMC at the Department of Defense level for consideration to win the 2013 DOD Fire and Emergency Services Award, also known as the “Chief Master Sergeant Ralph E. Sanborn” award or commonly referred to as the Sanborn Award, according to Koepp.<\/p>\n

The Edwards Fire Department won the very first Sanborn Award presented in 1993.<\/p>\n

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EDWARDS AFB \u2013 The Edwards Fire Department was recognized this month with the 2013 AFMC Fire and Emergency Services Award for best Large Fire Department in Air Force Materiel Command. “Our Edwards firefighters typically come to duty for a 72-hour tour, so for our team to be recognized like this is really an honor. Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":49143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1494],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}