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Accountability tag system
Air bags and hydraulic
rescue systems
Air hammer rescue kits
Arrow sticks for traffic
control
Backboards
Backpack water tanks
Backup camera for apparatus
Basket stretchers
Binoculars
Bolt cutters
Breathing apparatus:
Air cascade systems
Air compressor and
purification systems
Air pack walk away brackets
Extra air bottles for air
packs
Prescription face plates
Self-contained breathing
apparatus (air packs)
Voice amplifier for air mask
Brooms
Bullet proof vests
Chain saws
Cribbing and trench shoring
devices
Combustible gas detection
devices
Fire extinguishers
Firefighting foam and foam
tanks
Firefighting pre-plans
Fire hose, nozzles,
couplings, and adapters
Fire hose tester
First aid kits and supplies
Flammable liquid storage
cabinets
Flares
Gas shut-off wrenches
Glass utility tool
Ground ladders
Global positioning system
Hard suction hose
Head immobilizer
Heat detector
Hooligan tools
Hose bed divider
Hose troughs
Hydrant wrenches
Hydraulic ladder access
system
Hydraulic tire chain system
Hydraulic winch
Incident command board
Infrared imaging system
Inhalators
Intercom system for
apparatus
Ladder bridge mats
Leaf blower
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Lighting equipment:
Flashlights
Lighting cable and reels
Light line
Portable floodlights
Pump panel lights
Personal alarm monitors
Portable dump tanks
Portable emergency warning
signs
Portable generators
Portable loud speaker units
(bullhorns)
Portable oxyacetylene
cutters
Porta-power rescue kits
Protective clothing:
Bunker coats and pants
Chaps (for fighting brush
fires)
Coveralls worn while
participating in fire service
activities
Face shields
Fire resistant undergarments
Gear storage lockers, racks,
and bags
Gloves
Helmets and hoods
Ice rescue suit
Prescription goggles
Reflective traffic control
coats and capes for fire
police
Safety goggles
Radios:
Base station radio
Pager-type alerting monitors,
including
alphanumeric pagers
Portable, two-way radios
(walkie-talkie type)
Radio encoders and decoders
Radio headsets
Two-way radios permanently
installed in
emergency vehicles
Voice communication recorders
Rakes
Rescue jacks
Rescue rope and rappelling
equipment
Rescue saws
Safety bars or straps for
fire apparatus
Skin diving protective
equipment
Sledgehammer
Smoke ejectors
Smoke machines
Spanner wrenches
Suction hose strainers
Tire chains
Traffic cones
Water pumps
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NEW
AUTHORIZED VFRA EXPENDITURES –
February 1, 2006
Following consultation with representatives of the Department of
Community and Economic Development, the Department of the Auditor
General recognizes the following as permissible expenditures with
volunteer firefighters' relief association (VFRA) funds.
Pre-plan
computer software and any required hardware, as well as reasonable
payment to vendors to prepare firefighting pre-plans of structures
within the service area.
The
VFRAs can pay for one desktop computer for each fire company
affiliated with the VFRA and they can now purchase one laptop
computer for each emergency service vehicle housed in the fire
companies affiliated with the VFRA. The previous policy limited the
purchase to only one desktop and one laptop for each fire company.
Computer
programs for financial-record keeping, fire training and emergency
service reporting for NFIRS continue to be authorized expenditures,
as well as charges for a dedicated phone line and local internet
services.
It is
recommended that relief association computers be maintained in the
firehouse or on the emergency vehicles. Access to computers should
be restricted to authorized personnel, and should be limited to
relief association and emergency service business.
Firefighters should
refer to the Auditor General’s publication MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATIONS for more information on
authorized relief association expenditures and general guidance on
administering VFRA operations. |
