July 2012 Events

SCD has active during the month of July. With the annual July 3rd fireworks on a tuesday this year, CD members prepared equipment the night before at our weekly meeting.

SCD has been providing lighting, logistics, and communications to the annual fireworks for over 30+ years. Each year we have used this exercise as a training to be familar with our equipment when it is needed in an actual deployment or town emergency.

New to this years equipment was our portable electronic sign trailer. This trailer was just completed the previous week. It allows us to use LED message boards to alert the community on special events, road blocks, or any information that needs to be relayed to the public. The trailer has the ability to use 120v equipment and also 12v equipment.

Members used their new department issued radios. These radios use an ID system that all public safety department use for safety purposes. There was a few minor issues with the programming of the radios and that was fixed the next week.

Other equipment used during the drill was: Bucket truck with generator and lights, utility truck with generator and lights, #6 truck for towing and use of the lift gate, 2 cycle portable generator, 4 cycle generator lighting cart, 15kw lighting tower and one personal vehicle.

The next week we took apart one 2 cycle generator that failed during the drill. We found that it had bad gas in the lines and bowl, it was cleaned and fixed, and then put back into service.