RECOMMENDATION for UNIFICATION of NFFPD, ECFPD, and ICFPD

TO THE CITIZENS OF ELK CREEK, INTER-CANYON, AND NORTH FORK FIRE-PROTECTION DISTRICTS (FPDs):

GREETINGS!

We who have signed below are the men and women who devotedly provide emergency services in your FPDs.  

We represent 100% percent of the 79 respondents (78% of all Members) to a formal survey of our three collective FPDs’ professional firefighting and EMS personnel (both paid and volunteer, 57 of these responders from Elk Creek Fire, representing 90% of its Members), and 948 years of actual emergency response experience (556 of these years in Elk Creek Fire alone). It is our professional belief that Unifying our three FPDs, as proposed by our respective Fire Chiefs, is in the best interest of every person residing in each of our FPDs.

The current arrangement of separate FPDs is NOT working well for this community: with growing call numbers, severity, and overlap as well as increased mutual-aid needs, we are constantly within one call of catastrophe in our service to our districts and their people.  For these and other operational reasons, we believe that we would be much more effective in this community’s care and safety as a single, Unified FPD.  

If you want more timely and more fully-staffed emergency response, we urge you to support what volunteer and career staff alike endorse: UNIFICATION OF OUR 3 FPDs!

We encourage, and request that you encourage, your FPD’s Directors to vote Yes to Unify our three FPDs and to support this fundamental change in how we work together. Unification will allow us to be more effective and efficient in providing our community the better level of emergency service that is necessary as this community evolves.  

Please help us to help you!
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Elk Creek FPD Members: 57 responses (90% of Members), all ‘In Favor’; 556 Years of Service*
S. Aronson, Career, 23 years of service
C Barry, Career, 6 years of service
A. Bartells, Volunteer, 5 years of service
A. Beckwith, Volunteer, 4 years of service
H. Beckwith, Volunteer, 1 year of service
J. Berry, Volunteer, 2 years of service
X. Borg, Career, 7 years of service
K. Devaney, Volunteer, 25 years of service
D. Evers, Career, 9 years of service
L. Fabbri, Volunteer, 21 years of service
K. Fontaine, Volunteer, 3 years of service
B. Gage, Career, 16 years of service
J. Gardner, Volunteer, 4 years of service
G. Guttman, Career, 10 years of service
N. Hankins, Volunteer, 8 years of service
L. Hartley, Career, 10 years of service
T. Hokit, Career, 5 years of service
W. Huber, Volunteer, 12 years of service
P. Igel, Volunteer, 32 years of service
N. Jenkins, Career, 11 years of service
T. Jones, Volunteer, 5 years of service
L. Knecht, Career, 8 years of service
P. Koch, Volunteer, 9 years of service
R. LeBaron, Career, 14 years of service
K. Macauley, Volunteer, 2 years of service
S. Macauley, Career, 3 years of service
S. Marble, Volunteer, 13 years of service
A. McClain, Career, 6 years of service
K. McConnaughey, Career, 4 years of service
M. McCready, Career, 1 year of service
A. McIver, Volunteer, 9 years of service
A. McManus, Career, 3 years of service
B. Moore, Volunteer, 2 years of service
K. Moser, Volunteer, 11 years of service
B. Moses, Career, 11 years of service
C. Moya, Career, 18 years of service
A. Nesbitt, Career, 15 years of service
C. Nyholm, Career, 6 years of service
J. Papenfus, Career, 16 years of service
P. Quiesner, Volunteer, 21 years of service
R. Rush, Career, 12 years of service
P. Scott, Career, 28 years of service
A. Shearer, Career, 1 year of service
K. Shine, Volunteer, 7 years of service
T. Smith, Career, 4 years of service
A. Steed, Career, 1 year of service
S. Tamburlin, Volunteer, 13 years of service
C. Thiel, Volunteer, 7 years of service
N. Trefethen, Volunteer, 2 years of service
S. Trilk, Volunteer, 6 years of service
B. Urban, Career, 10 years of service
A. Wezeman, Career, 6 years of service
B. Wilkins, Volunteer, 3 years of service
J. Winefeldt, Career, 23 years of service
B. Yellin, Career, 14 years of service
J. Zeugschmidt, Career, 3 years of service
T. Zoesch, Career, 4 years of service

Inter-Canyon FPD Members 13 responses (65% of Members), all ‘In Favor’; 244 Years of Service*
J. Adamy, Volunteer, 2 years of service
S. Buckles, Career, 30 years of service
D. Carcone, Volunteer, 34 years of service
T. Elkins, Volunteer, 6 years of service
S. Epperson, Career, 12 years of service
T. Fedyna, Volunteer, 1 year of service
R. Fuller, Volunteer, 7 years of service
W. Fuller, Volunteer, 7 years of service
M. Hansen, 16 years of service
D. Hatlestad, Career, 43 years of service
T. James, Career, 14 years of service
J. Mandl, Career, 24 years of service
D. Wurts, Volunteer, 30 years of service

North Fork FPD Members 8 responses (44% of Members), all ‘In Favor’; 148 Years of Service*
T. Bono, Career, 39 years of service
A. Dyes, Volunteer, 1 year of service
J. Gardner, Volunteer, 1 year of service
J. Graves, Volunteer, 1 year of service
G. Mcdonald, Volunteer, 1 year of service
J. McCoy, Volunteer, 24 years of service
J. Rogers, Vounteer, 8 years of service
J. Siewertsen, Volunteer, 7 years of service

Names and statistics as of 0700 Mountain Time Thursday 14 November 2024.
Each Fire Chief’s’ Years of Service included in total; Chiefs otherwise not included in lists or statistics.