GRANTS RECEIVED

Project Purpose:

The project we are requesting funds for is to purchase 8 Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and provide CPR and AED training to 50 individuals free of charge. Our department has available funds for 2 of the AEDs ($5,986) with the remainder being sought through this grant. If funded this project will increase the availability of equipment
and trained bystanders to intervene in the event of a cardiac arrest.

Scope:

The project aims to increase the available trained bystanders and available AED’s, to decrease the amount of time a cardiac arrest victim goes without intervention. The AED's will be up to date with the current American Heart Association guidelines for cardiac arrest care and provide real-time CPR feedback to ensure proper chest compressions. The AED's will come with all necessary accessories, including adult and pediatric electrodes, battery, and carrying case. The AED's will have the capability for Wi-Fi data transmission for immediate retrieval of patient data to send to the hospital.

Budget:

$24,944.00 was the total budget, with the Caesars Foundation of Floyd County generously funding the requested amount of $18,958.00.

Project Purpose:

For this project, we requested a grant for a Water Rescue Boat, Motor, and Trailer. These items will allow us to conduct water rescues more efficiently and safer, when flooding or flash flooding events occur in Floyd County.

Scope:

Our project aims to expand the capabilities of our current water rescue team. We are requesting an inflatable Swiftwater Rescue Boat. This inflatable boat is smaller than the boat we currently operate. This smaller boat will be easier to deploy in flood areas where access is extremely limited, and the current boat is nearly incapable of being deployed in a flash flooding situation. The new boat will come with a storage bag to keep specific equipment dry, paddles, a foot pump to inflate the boat, a motor, and a fuel bladder for the motor. The boat will be able to be filled with air quickly by using air bottles that we currently have.

With the trailer we are requesting, the boat will always stay inflated and have the motor attached to the boat. This will allow us to unload the boat directly into the water, a tactic we are currently incapable of utilizing. As it currently stands, when our Swiftwater Rescue Technicians arrive on the scene of a motorist stranded in life-threatening flood waters, much valuable time is spent unpacking the boat from a cargo trailer, inflating it, attaching the motor, and inserting the fuel bladder/tank. The primary goal of this project is to obtain a boat with the appropriate boat trailer with a motor and fuel bladder that stays constantly installed and ready for deployment.

The pump-jet motor requested for the inflatable boat is a 30-horsepower Evinrude brand engine. Including this motor onto inflatable rescue boat will result in an overall package that is faster, lighter, more powerful, and more capable than our current setup. Furthermore, there are certain rescue scenarios where tandem boats, also known as a boat team, is the preferred method of rescue. Since we currently only have one boat, we are not able to conduct those rescues in the safest manner possible. The addition of this boat will unlock the full potential of the current team. The result will be a faster, safer, and more efficient deployment of lifesaving gear and personnel into the water.

Budget:

$19,986.00 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County generously funded this project.

Project Purpose:

The purpose of the project is to be able not only to offer car seat safety inspections at the station anytime but to offer four planned and advertised child passenger safety education and car seat safety inspection events annually; however, we currently cannot because we have no replacement car seats and no funding which allows us to purchase the seats that we would need to keep on hand. If a technician finds a faulty child safety seat, the seat has to be taken out of service immediately. If the child safety seat is taken out of service and the individual has a child with them, a new up-to-date, safe seat would need to be provided. If the individual does not have a child with them but cannot afford a new federally approved replacement child safety seat, then one would need to be provided to them.

Scope:

The grant would provide funding to purchase 22 federally approved child safety seats that would be readily available when a seat did not pass inspection and has been taken out of service. We are looking to purchase 10 Convertible Child Safety Seats (4-40 pounds), 6 Combination Child Safety Seats (30-100 pounds), and 6 Booster Child Safety Seats (80-100 pounds).

How will this project impact the Floyd Memorial Foundation HCI priority areas, as identified in our Community Health Needs Assessment Executive Summary: The Community Health Needs Assessment has shown us several factors to support our cause of offering Certified Child Safety Seat Inspection events. Those factors are as follows: The mean travel time to work is 22.5 minutes one way, less than 1% use public transportation, the population in the study counties continues to grow, 18.3% of the population is under 14 years of age, 18.7% of the children live below the poverty level, 35.6% of students are eligible for free lunch, 12.6% live in a severe housing problem, 55% of the households receive SNAP, per capita income is lower than that at the national level and only 2% of the households have no car. The number of registered vehicles on the road has continually risen from 1990 to 2016 to 268.8 million vehicles nationwide. (Statista 2018). According to the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, collisions have continued to rise from 2012 to 2016 by 20.06%. In 2016 there were 3,513 children ages 0-14 were killed or injured in Indiana motor vehicle collisions. The overall rate of restraint usage among child occupants and drivers involved in Indiana crashes was 86%. Restraint use was highest (96%) among the less than 1-year-old age group and lowest (84%) among the 13-14-year-old age group. These factors are proof of the following in the assessment area: more vehicles on the road with longer travel times and the population continues to increase, which means more children in vehicles on the roadways. A large percentage of the households qualify for reduced or free lunch and or are receiving SNAP which indicates lower income which can indicate the need for services such as a Certified Child Safety Seat Inspection with new federally approved seats readily available.

Budget:

$1,000.00 Funded by Floyd Memorial Foundation Healthy Communities Initiative Mini-Grant.

LTVFD is proud to have received a Fall 2005 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County Grant Award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township 2005 Thermal Imaging Camera Add and Update Project.

Proposal Overview

The focus of the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2005 Thermal Imaging Camera Add and Update Project is to purchase a new and updated Thermal Imaging Camera for use in the field, which will make our job safer and allow us the ability to have one in each station to protect the whole community without delay.

Project Scope

This program will directly affect our ability to have immediate access to a Thermal Imager when we arrive on the scene. With this in mind we would be creating a safer working environment for our firefighters and a greater chance we would find the person or persons in need during a situation in which the Thermal Imaging Camera would be deployed.

Project Budget

$10,000.00 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County has generously funded this project.

LTVFD is proud to have received a Fall 2004 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2004 AED (Automatic Electronic Defibrillator) Technology Project.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2004 AED Technology Project is purchase technologically current cardiac care and computer equipment for in-field use, addressing the number one cause of death in the United States today: Sudden Cardiac Arrest(SCA).

PROJECT SCOPE:

This program will directly affect our ability to treat cardiac patients by using biphasic defibrillator units, recommended by the American Heart Association Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care: International Consensus on Science Standard Protocols as statistically superior in treating SCA events, as well as instituting computer technology for real-time communication between units in the field. The citizens of Lafayette Township and Floyd County will benefit from this new technology as the ability to use advanced AED and real-time communications saves time, ultimately saving lives.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$15,638.00. Caesars Foundation of Floyd County has generously funded this project proposal.

TVFD is proud to have received a 2004 Indiana DNR/USDA Forest Service Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2004 Firefighter Safety Gear Program.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2004 Firefighter Safety Gear Program is providing LTVFD personnel currently using protective firefighting boots and helmets that do not meet NFPA/OSHA standards with up-to-date standard compliant gear.

PROJECT SCOPE:

This proposal addresses LTVFD personnel with outdated, non-compliant gear. By protecting our personnel we may better fulfill our duties of protecting our community.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$7,000.00. The Indiana DNR/USDA Forest Service VFA grant is a 50/50 matching grant. LTVFD’s award was $3,500.00.

LTVFD is proud to have received a 2003 Department of Homeland Security/FEMA/USFA FIRE ACT grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund PROTECTING

OUR OWN:

Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2003 Firefighter Safety Equipment Acquisition Program. LTVFD received a sixth round award.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of PROTECTING OUR OWN: Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2003 Firefighter Safety Equipment Acquisition Program is the lack of currently NFPA/OSHA standard compliant Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) with Personal Alert Safety System (PASS) devices and Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) packs as standard equipment. LTVFD faces a crisis situation with the extreme age, wear, and continuing test failure rate of our current SCBA and PASS devices and has no official RIT equipment on hand, despite requests by Floyd County Police Department for on-call department and SWAT operations backup by LTVFD and our own Standard Operating Procedures requirement for RIT Crews on all interior fire attacks. All SCBA currently in use by LTVFD was purchased in 1992. None is designed for buddy-breathing or is equipped with voice-amplification components. January 2003 SCBA tests revealed a passing grade on one complete unit within the department.

PROJECT SCOPE:

LTVFD currently has the only truck-mounted Cascade refill system in Floyd County and therefore carries a number of extra SCBA cylinders, which are compatible with all other departments in our area. In effect, this proposal will effect not only Lafayette Township but all of Floyd County and, in a mass casualty incident a possible minimum three county area of Southern Indiana. Given that Lafayette Township is located just ten miles from Louisville, Kentucky, now the sixteenth largest city in the United States, we may also conceivably be called one day to aid a major metropolitan district.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$95,000.00+. Fire Act Grant is a 90/10 matching grant for a community our size.

LTVFD is proud to have received a Spring 2003 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2003 Thermal Imaging Acquisition Program.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of PROTECTING OUR OWN: Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2003 Thermal Imaging Acquisition Program is providing technology with a proven history of creating positive outcomes in disasterous emergency situations to the staff of LTVFD.Thermal Imaging technology has improved in the past few years to reach far beyond it’s initial scope of locating the core of a structure fire. This technology may now be applied to many fire, rescue, medical, hazmat, mass casualty and training scenarios with extraordinary results. LTVFD’s Thermal Imaging Acquisition Project encompasses the purchase of a closed-circuit system with camera and truck-mounted view screen allowing both on-scene and command personnel to view incidents in real time.

PROJECT SCOPE:

This program has the unique capacity to directly affect the citizens of Floyd County through our numerous Mutual Aid Agreements combined with backup services to Floyd County Sheriff Department SWAT.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$11,534.07. Caesars Foundation of Floyd County awarded $10,000.00 for this proposal.

LTVFD is proud to have received a 2002 Indiana DNR/USDA Forest Service Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2002 Firefighter Safety Turn-Out Gear Program.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of PROTECTING OUR OWN: Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2002 Firefighter Safety Turn-Out Gear Program is providing LTVFD personnel currently using personal protective gear that is not NFPA/OSHA standard compliant with up-to-date standard compliant gear.

PROJECT SCOPE:

This proposal addresses all LTVFD personnel with outdated, non-compliant gear. By protecting our personnel we may better fulfill our duties of protecting our community.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$9,500.00. The Indiana DNR/USDA Forest Service VFA grant is a 50/50 matching grant. LTVFD’s award was $4,750.00.

LTVFD is proud to have received a 2002 Indiana DNR/Department of Forestry Handtool Program award. This proposal was submitted to supply Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department with wildland firefighting tools.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of this proposal was obtaining a compliment of wildland firefighting tools designed by the DNR/Dept of Forestry. The compliment included six (6) council fire rakes, two (2) collapsible broom rakes, four (4) fire swatters, two (2) backpack pumps and two (2) shovels.

PROJECT SCOPE:

The Indiana DNR/Department of Forestry Handtool Program requires a cooperative mutual aid agreement. Departments may receive a compliment of tools once every ten years.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$1,000.00. The Indiana DNR/Department of Forestry Handtool Program provides an equipment grant.

LTVFD is proud to have received a Fall 2002 Caesars Foundation of Floyd County grant award. This grant proposal was submitted to fund the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2002 Personal Protective Equipment Project.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW:

The focus of the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department 2002 Personal Protective Equipment Project is providing the 73% of active firefighters on our department currently equipped with turn-out gear that does not meet NFPA/OSHA standards due to extreme wear and age with compliant gear. Non-standard compliant gear puts our personnel at significant risk of injury or death.

PROJECT SCOPE:

This program will directly affect our department personnel by allowing them a safer working environment which, in turn, will allow participation in situations not currently considered safe due to lack of compliant gear. Ultimately, those receiving benefit from this program will be the citizens of Lafayette Township and Floyd County through our numerous Mutual Aid Agreements.

PROJECT BUDGET:

$20,502.00. Caesars Foundation of Floyd County awarded $10,000.00 for this proposal.