Mt. Dora, FL – Hundreds of friends and family members filled the room at Lake Receptions Friday night as Lake County welcomed 18 new hire recruits and recognized life-saving actions of firefighters in 2015. The 18 new firefighter recruits recently completed a 5 week training school with Lake County Fire Rescue to become candidates for hiring. Read More...
Lake County has an extreme shortage of firefighters. Most of the Lake County fire trucks only have 2 firefighters on them per day. National standards call for 4 firefighters to arrive on scene within 4 minutes of a fire. Lake County can not comply with this but 20% of the time. Even worse, 15 firefighters are supposed to arrive within 8 minutes. Lake County Fire complies with this . Read More...
Leesburg, FL – The Lake County Firefighters toy store is open and will have some special elfs on Friday helping families shop for toys. Students from the FIRST Robotics Team 1557 – 12 Volt Bolt club will be at the shop to help the families. The team is a Lake County high school robotics team that meets in downtown Eustis and consists of 35 students from all Lake County high schools. Read More...
For Immediate Release Contact: VP Lt. Brian Gamble
Fire Fighters Stress Cooking Safety on Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving is leading day for home cooking fires
Tavares, FL - According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), cooking is the leading cause of home fires on Thanksgiving Day. A cooking fire is three times more likely on Thanksgiving than on any other day of the year.
“Most fires on Thanksgiving occur between noon and 4:00 p.m. – the peak cooking hours,” says Lt. Brian Gamble, Vice President of the Professional Firefighters of Lake County. “A lot of those fires can be easily avoided by staying alert and in the kitchen while cooking.” Read More...
TAVARES, FL – Lake County Firefighters will be donning pink uniform shirts once again this October. “The wearing of the pink shirts is not only symbolic of our support of the women of our community, but it also promotes awareness” explains Lt. Brian Gamble, Vice President of the Professional Firefighters of Lake County. Read More...
Eustis, Florida – A helicopter pilot and passenger ended up on a medical helicopter after their light weight copter they were flying crashed into a residential neighborhood early Friday morning. Bystanders watched as the helicopter spun out of control after takeoff and a short flight from the Umatilla airport a few miles away. Read More...
Posted: Sunday, August 9, 2015 6:05 am - Daily Commercial
Livi Stanford livi.stanford@dailycommercial.com |0 comments
Posted on Aug 9, 2015
by livi
At the center of a long-simmering debate over the weaknesses in Lake County’s fire service is the number 16. Read More... Download: Lake County GIS Final.pdf
Lake County GIS Final.pdf
