Phoenix Fire Department

This is Valley Watch, your first choice for public safety news and information.

Produced by the Phoenix Fire Department and aired on this Bonneville station.

Welcome to another edition of Valley Watch.

I'm Jody Ehler, the civilian public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department on this, you know, another fall weekend in Phoenix where there's some weather.

We just got done with Halloween where most years I'm worried about my kids.

I've got three little ones being too hot in their Halloween costumes.

Yeah, very good point.

And again, if you need to know at any point during any of these rainy times, if the sand plan deployment is active, you can always go to phoenix.gov. Phoenix.gov, the entire homepage will have every page on the City of Phoenix website will have a banner telling you it's been active and sand is available.

He's a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University.

We'll talk to him a little bit about being an intern for Alan Brunicini at the Phoenix Fire Department.

He's a graduate of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

a graduate of University of Maryland's leadership program and an EFO graduate.

This is Valley Watch, your first choice for public safety news and information.

Produced by the Phoenix Fire Department and aired on this Bonneville station.

Welcome to Valley Watch.

I'm Jody Ehler, the civilian public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department, joined alongside this week by my friend and colleague, our lead PIO.

He is Captain Rob McDade.

Rob, how are you?

And we would have the roofs of parking or, you know, the parking structures at apartment complexes blown off.

We had roofs on the west side of some older apartment complexes blown off.

This is Valley Watch, your first choice for public safety news and information.

Produced by the Phoenix Fire Department and aired on this Bonneville station.

Welcome to Valley Watch.

I'm Jody Aylor, the civilian public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department.

It is always my pleasure to join you on these beautiful, crisp fall football Sunday mornings as we barrel into October and we get ready for the holiday season.

We've got a lot to talk about, obviously, for the latest safety messaging, if you need any tips.

Celebrate and be safe this fall and holiday season in Phoenix.

Joining me this week on Valley Watch, very excited to have our next guest.

So we come away from that.

In fact, during my career with the Phoenix Fire Department, that was the only structural firefighting line of duty death during my career.

So, I mean, that was...

We had a very robust system.

So we have enough time to manage that, especially when you put on top of it.

And this has been an acceleration of what I was doing in Phoenix since I retired.

Because during my career with the Phoenix Fire Department, we were never quick hit exterior offensive water application.

It was all inside.

This is Valley Watch, your first choice for public safety news and information.

Produced by the Phoenix Fire Department and aired on this Bonneville station.

Welcome to another edition of Valley Watch.

I'm Jody Aylor, the civilian public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department.

It is absolutely beautiful.

We remind you as we enter and October is coming up and we are here in October now.

So make sure that you are taking all the proper precautions as we've dealt with a lot of fires.

flooding and a lot of water and a lot of rain, which we all welcome, but it's still important to be safe.

Hikers who get hurt or stranded deep on Phoenix's long desert trails may soon see help arrive by bike.

The Phoenix Fire Department began deploying e-bike rescue teams in September to shorten response times on remote stretches of the city's mountain preserves.

The department now has two e-bike teams, one based in North Phoenix and one in the southern part of the city.

Each bike can haul medical supplies and rescue equipment, allowing firefighters to begin treating a patient and take charge of the scene while additional crews make their way up the trail.

Emma Bradford, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Well, the Phoenix Fire Department is now utilizing e-bikes during rescues on some mountain trails.

The e-bikes allow crews to reach people in rural mountain areas more quickly while also carrying equipment and supplies.

Phoenix Fire Spokesperson D.J. Lee says initial tests show the e-bikes can go up to 15 miles before needing to be charged, but time will tell how they hold up during summer months.