Uh, I just wanted to welcome everybody to what is really our first annual public safety um, open house. Uh, it was a collaboration between uh, a bunch of the agencies in town. Uh, we got together, tried to put together something really kind of special for
everybody tonight. Um, we have a really good demonstration coming up at 6:30 if you can stick around. We have pizza and hot dogs over there. Uh, stop by. Make sure you get uh some water, too. Stay hydrated tonight. It's pretty hot out. But on behalf of the East Saw Meadow Fire Department and East Meadow Police
Department, we'd like to welcome you to uh to our event this evening. All right. Uh, I'm going to turn it over to Chief Mark Williams. He's going to tell you a little bit about what he's got coming up as well. Thank you, Chief Beecher. Thank you, everybody, for coming. And I'd really like to thank the fire department for spearheading this event and allowing
the police department to join in and be part of it. So, as Chief Beer said, there's food. We want you to enjoy that while it's here. But we also have a K9 demonstration which is going to happen right now. And we're going to lose our K9 right after this cuz he has to go to
Springfield to help with their National Light Out. So, Deputy Sheriff Matthew Taylor is here from the Hampton County Sheriff's Office and he's going to do a demonstration right now over on the grass area between the police and fire department. So, if you'd like to see that, please wander over and thanks for
being here. Hey guys, I'm Deputy Taylor with the Sheriff's Department, Hampton County. This is my partner, Esso. He's about a 2-year-old German Shepherd. I've been working with him since the beginning of May. I just finished a police academy and we went through our own patrol
academy together. So, he's certified now in our patrol division. So, we're out on the streets. Main priorities, we do a lot of tracks for people, missing people, anyone that kind of runs away from the police. Um, let's see. Can do what we call article
searches. So, if you know a suspect throws something in the grass, throws something as they're running, he'll be able to find it for you. I can show you guys that. Um, if anyone wants to come up and throw something out for me, we can have uh I'll have two people come up. We'll have two. Who wants to come
up? We'll take um here. Plots. Plots. We'll take you. You can come up. Plat. Do you want to toss this out for me? Here. Just throw it right out in the grass here. Far as you can. And then you can go this way. Throw it right over
this way. Good throw. All right. Hey, if you guys want to step back down who's catch it up. So, right now he's looking for the uh human scent that is on the articles. We, you know, millions of skin cells and
different um scents that come off of the humans. So, we train that. So he goes off of like any kind of scent that picked gets transferred over from an article and he's going to basically he remembers that scent and once he gets closer to it, you'll see he can start to smell it.
He'll get closer and start we call it bracketing. So we'll go slower and slower the um the scent pattern kind of comes off of something like this. So the farther away as you see he'll go down and Okay, good boy. Come here, buddy. Good
boy. Yeah. Good boy. Come here. Come on, buddy. Fluts. Fluts. Good. Good boy. Fetch up. Good.
Okay, come here, bud. Good. Plutts. Plats. Good. So, we train them basically once they're able to find the article that they're looking for, they hold into a down position. That way, if we don't
see him right away, he's supposed to lock up onto that article. That way, we know what he has found. He's usually basically has the article almost hidden under his chin, so it's almost protected from everything. And he keeps that there until I release him from it. Um, okay, buddy. What else you want to do? Come
on, bud. Good. A lot of other things we test, we do a lot of obedience with them. That's like our our biggest thing. Everything else is based off of obedience. Um, the basically you just want them focus on the handler or myself in this
instance where you can see he's either looking for his toy. He does pretty much everything for this toy. He knows that he's going to put his work in and he's going to get his reward of the toy. So, right now he's his focus is on me waiting for basically what his next move is going to be. So, I'll show you that.
Come on, buddy. F. Good. Good. F. Good. Come on, buddy. Good plats. Good. Same thing. You give him commands. Say like um a down. He's supposed to hold
that down. Wherever he's at, sit. Same thing. Stay. Any of those. He holds that until I release him for it and he gets his reward. So, I would be able to move around, walk wherever I need to go. He should be able to stay there until he gets his release command. Okay.
Good boy. You like that so much? No. It's just uh pretty much a chew toy. Come here, bud. That's so here. Good boy. Good boy, buddy.
Good boy. Plats. Plats. Plats. Plats. Good. [Applause] Come here, buddy.
Come on, buddy. Down. Good. We teach some of the we call it tactical obedience. So, it's more of like our practical if we're uh say working with our SWAT teams or anything like that and we need him uh close by us if we're undercover. So, that way he's also undercover. Um so, we try and teach a
few things like that just so uh it's a little more practical for all of us so we all stay safe. Come on, buddy. Plats. Good plats. Good boy. Good. Eight.
Sit. Plats. Good. Same thing with the uh the tactical uh aspect. We'll do um hand signals. That way if anything needs to be quiet, we'll use our signal. So down. This will be
into a sit. And I can show you into a hold on lots back into our heel position with the hand signal as well. Be good. Good boy.
Come here. Stay. Good. Yes. Can you bite? He is trained to bite. I'm by myself today, so I don't have anyone else that can uh kind of show that today. Unfortunately, normally we will have a couple other of my teammates out that
could put um our sleeves on. We have either big bite suits. We have a full pants almost like a full jacket and we'll train that aspect so that way, you know, we stay safe and the dog stays safe as well. We also have bite sleeves just they're able to target just one
specific area if we want to train that. Um but unfortunately, I'm by myself today, so we can't really show you that aspect. Um, other than that, that's about it. Okay, good boy.
Do we have any more questions? Yes. Come on, bud. Okay. Let's [Laughter] all right. You can try and remember. I'll still be
here. We can ask again. You take the dog home with you? Yes. So, he comes home with us. Um, from the moment we picked him up, we start that bond with them. So, I I took him for about six weeks when we initially picked him up from the kennel we got him. Um, I pretty much just for those six weeks just hung out with him, play with him in the backyard just so we can
build that bond together where you saw like in the heel position, he's just looking up at me. Otherwise, like the beginning stages are pretty rough where they're kind of just their focus is everywhere. you know, normally like he'd probably be looking at all of you guys a lot more and but we work on that a lot. We'll do stuff with other dogs on the
field as well. Um, we do get calls like that where we have multiple dogs out. We don't want them either trying to play with each other or typically ends up being like dog fighting. They usually don't like each other too much, so we try and keep them all separate when we're working. It's usually one out at a time. So, is he your dog or
Yeah. Uh well technically a department dog but he stays with me and then when he retires um we get about maybe six to eight years with them. So once they retire they do come home with us becomes like our pet. Um then like the department gives them over to us and then from there we'll
look the process of another dog. So it gets hectic. Then we have a retired dog at home and another working dog. But it's all part of the fun. Go buddy. Good house. house. Good.
How old is he? He's about two. He'll be two in uh October. So, he's Last I took him to the vet, he was about 85 lbs. So, he definitely has a potential to get a little bigger. They usually fill out around that two-year mark. Here, come on. But he should be
just about to that full size. So, I'd say maybe between 85 and 90 lbs will get to, but he's definitely our our biggest dog on the team. Most of them range between about like the 65 to 75 range. We have two um two different types. So we have our shepherds like him and then
we have our Belgian Malininois which are a similar breed just a little bit different uh body style. The coat is a little different. Um they're both just super smart dogs and they just love to work. Um then we also have one other blood hound as well that's before we're like mainly for our search and rescue for tracking and uh you know kids or
elderly go missing that dog will go out to help find him. Come on, bud. Plots. Want to do one more plat. Good boy. Plots.
Who's plats? Good flats. All right. Okay. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy, buddy.
All right. We have any more questions before uh he goes back into the nice AC? Of course. No problem. Yes. Okay. Hey, come here. Sit. You have a question. She can't come too close. We can't pet
him. Okay. Cuz he's working. What do you want to say? Um, I think our dog looks pretty cute. Thank you. Do you have the sleeve? My dad wants to do my dad. I do have the sleeve, but unfortunately we can't do that due to like the
liability and everything. Yeah, it's it is fun. It's definitely a little dangerous, too, if you're like especially learning. Like the first few times I did it, it was it was rough. But you know, we start slow like maybe this distance and then we'll go to like the full like farther. We'll probably send it from here to almost the road and they
launch pretty far in the air, too. It's pretty cool to see. But the first few times, yeah, it's it's fun. It's I think I have the best job with the sheriff's department, but I have a little bias, but if you ask me, it's the best job here. So, you get the best partner and doesn't complain. Always wants to work.
But yeah, he's he's a good boy. Yeah. So far. Yeah. So, no complaints. Oh, yeah. They're amazing. It blows my mind. Every day we do something new. It's picks up on stuff so fast. It's cool. My aunt um always wanted to be a,
you know, have a K9 and do that. She's got her German Shepherd. She's got her train, but she never became a police officer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's Hey, that's still cool, too. There's a ton of different programs out there you can take like personal wise for like protection. Um there's different competitions and stuff out there, so it's fun. Definitely.
Yeah, we're actually hosting our our um USPCA. It's a big competition, also a certification for us next year. Um probably be about the May to June time that'll be in Lello. So, um if you follow our Instagram page, I think it's HCSDK9. We've been uh slowly putting out some
posts about it. So, um just keep on looking for that in the future. We'll probably start posting and we'll have flyers out and everything too for next year. So, definitely. Of course. No problem. He's um still under two. He'll be two in October. So, he's look like a puppy. Yeah, he Yeah, he definitely acts like
it sometimes still, but when he's in work mode, he's usually pretty good. At home, the puppy comes out. Good boy. Yes, of course. What's up? Not typically. We try and keep them like
if if we're working like were you here the whole demonstration where I he's finding stuff in the grass like we'll try and if we had to get this whole area I'll work him in kind of sections and you I try and keep him within like a say like a maybe a 25 foot radius that way like I know where we've searched as
well. So you know I'll get this area move up with him and that way he doesn't get too far out of range where in case he doesn't hear me or something that we can we don't have any whistles. No, that's why we just kind of keep them trying like close enough to us unless say we're
sending for like a bite or something like that where he has to actually chase someone, but they're so so great with the targeting. Once they know where they're trying to get to, it's they know what they're doing. So, WestCom is a regional center. We we are proudly serving the communities of
Chapi, East Long Meadow, Long Meadow, Mson, and Wear and the Hampton County Sheriff's. So, in any of those communities, if you dial 911, our dispatch center, our regional center will answer the call. One of the biggest things that we want to make sure that everybody understands is is that uh we
want to know which city. So, we'll answer the call saying 911. This line is recorded, where is your emergency? We want to know what the actual city is also because you could say Main Street, but we have five or six communities. So, that's one of the biggest things that we would want to know. Um, and then stay on the line. We're going to ask you a lot
of questions. All of our dispatchers are emergency medical dispatch trained. Um, and what that means is is we can walk you through any type of medical emergency. We can help you deliver a baby. We've done all kinds of things. Um, our dispatchers are amazing. Um, so stay on the line, answer the questions.
It's not delaying anything. We are already getting they they work as a team and we're getting that call out and the responders are on their way and we're getting the information so that we can give that to our responders. DART is a drug addiction recovery team. We do post overdose outreach for
individuals who use opiates or other substances in the community. And we're connected with the East Long Meadow Police Department who offers our resources to to the community. Our goal is to keep people alive.
NFSA is a National Fire Sprinkler Association and we advocate for sprinklers in all properties. So, we're trying to get and again, we're trying to get sprinklers in one and two family homes for the most part here in Massachusetts and and throughout New England. I represent all of uh New
England and New York. So, that's what we're here trying to spread the word on sprinklers. First off, thanks everybody once again for coming tonight. Really a big success. Uh which which is in large part to just the turnout we had tonight. Well, thank you very much for for coming out and showing your support of public
safety uh here in East Long Song Meadow. Um I would like to just let you know what we're going to be doing here. Uh this is a live fire demonstration. Uh we're going to be um showing you the difference between what a sprinklered room looks like versus an unsinklered room. Uh the first fire will not be very
significant. However, the second one uh is going to be fairly large. Uh we do have obviously our firefighters here um with uh handlines. So, uh, the danger is minimal, but I just want to make sure everyone's back behind the cones. Um, significant heat will come off of this,
uh, demonstration. Uh, so I thought that was me. Great. All right. Um, so just I want to call your attention to a few things. We have a timer over here. You'll see that when we start to when we start the fire in both rooms, we're going to start that clock. And that's really important because we
talk about how important it is to um to have working smoke alarms in your house. because it's early detection uh for making sure that you know that you need to get out of your house. Take note of when that fire alarm starts to go off on
that clock and then how soon it is until um until the sprinkler activates. All right? Because that's that's very significant when we show you exactly what happens on the unsinkled side of this demonstration. Okay? Um, and I I'll point out a few other things as well as we go through the through the process.
But, um, without further ado, I think we're going to get started. All right. Sprinklers first. Yeah. All right. So, we have two identically furnished rooms. All right. This these aren't um these aren't saturated with any kind of fuel. Everything in here is
just common furniture you'd find in your own home. Uh, a dorm room, a bedroom, recck room, anything like that. Um, so nothing here has been there's no fuel used to start that. So we see this fire started in the corner of the room. Smoke alarm started
within 10 seconds. That is your sign that you have something. You have a fire in your house. fire or smoke and that's when it's that's that's your notice to leave your home. It's 26 seconds for that sprinkler head to activate.
26 seconds. That was by the time you heard that alarm at 10 seconds. All right. You only had another 16 seconds before that sprinkler had activated and put out that fire. I'll have them shut down the trash. Okay.
And these guys can go in and mop up. All right. So, I know a lot of people think when you think of sprinklers, right, you think that if one sprinkler activates, they all activate. That's not true. Okay. The sprinkler that's receiving the heat is the sprinkler that activates.
The other sprinklers in your home will not activate unless they're triggered by heat. Okay? Right? So, minimal damage, right? About 13 gallons a minute from a sprinkler head, right? We're going to put way more water on that from a fire hose. You're also going to have a lot
less significant damage. The home suffers some smoke damage and some water damage. It's confined to one room and it's it's out and extinguished mostly by the time the fire department gets there. Time is what we're trying to sell here. Okay? the the sooner that that fire can
go out and be extinguished and we get water on it, the the better off you're going to be for life safety and for property damage as well. All right. Yeah. One second. Yeah. Hold on. So, what we're going to do now is we're going to show you what happens in a room
that doesn't have a sprinkler. Okay. Um there's nothing that's going to stop this fire until the fire department gets there and puts it out. Again, I want you to kind of really watch that clock and see where we're at with time because um the average turnout time from dispatch
to the fire department getting to your house is about four to five minutes. Okay? So, watch what happens in a 4 to 5 minute span, if we even get to that point. All right? And that's from the time of dispatch. You still have to have your alarms go off. You still have to
get out of the house. And you still have to place that call to 911. Right? The emergency starts when the fire starts. [Music] behind the couch. [Music]
Okay. So, the the fire has started, right? Same furnishings in this room that were in the other room, right? Keep your eye on the smoke, okay? Because that smoke is a clear it's a it's a white light smoke right now.
That's going to increase as the fire grows. Okay, your fire alarm is activated. That's your indication that it's time to get out of the house. You're making your way out. Okay, it's typically about 1 minute by the
time you get out of the house to call 911. That gets the emergency services rolling. Okay, fire is growing. We're at 50 seconds. And the sprinkler side of this demonstration, that fire was already out. Okay, this fire is going to
continue to grow until we can put water on it. You see that smoke at the top of the room now? It's getting a lot darker, right? That's all that superheated gas is making its way from the the flammable material, making its way up to the top of the de to the uh the roof.
Eventually, that smoke banks all the way down. That's why we talk about staying low and go, right? Crawl low under smoke because you can see underneath all of that, it's a lot clearer and it's going to be a lot cooler. Temperature at the top of that room,
it's roughly 500°. We're at about a minute and a half now. Fire department's been alerted. They're getting in their in the apparatus. They're getting ready to respond to your house. You're outside. staying outside. [Music] That fire is going to continue to grow
until it runs out of fuel. And everything in that room that's flammable is fuel. The TV, the laptop, sofa, chair, carpet, everything. Okay, [Music]
remember fire doubles in size roughly every 30 seconds, right? So, as every 30 seconds goes by, that fire gets twice as big. For this demonstration, we have the benefit of the fact that there's open air to the front of the building. If this was in an actual home, that would just be constantly filling the rest of
the house up with smoke. We're at the almost 3 minute mark now. Okay. Fire department's almost there. Furniture, newer furniture nowadays is much more flammable than it was, you know, uh, you know, 20, 30, 40 years ago. It's nothing is really made of
natural fibers anymore. Everything's made of of of uh laminate materials, things like that. It's petroleum based products. I'm standing approximately 25 ft from this. I can feel the heat from that.
Temperatures in this room, that's certainly not something that's going to be something you want to be in, right? If if I'm feeling it from here, you wouldn't be able to be in that room. [Music] This room is just about getting ready to flash over, they call it. That's when everything in the room becomes
ignitable. And you can see the you can see the smoke on the top now has ignited. That room is fully involved. The fire department is just about getting to your home now. Once that smoke clears, you're going to see that the damage to that room
is a lot more significant to the damage that was in this one with the sprinkler. And again, if this was an actual residential home, that smoke would have traveled throughout the entire house, causing smoke damage through most of the rooms.
Good. When you saw that flashover point that that that when everything ignited in that room, that was roughly 1,000°, 1100°. So, just kind of put that in perspective. All right. Are we good,
guys? All right. So, that's our fire demonstration for the sprinkler side by side. It really does matter how soon you can get water on that fire. Home sprinklers serve that purpose. It's like, it's literally like
having firefighters in your home. They're going to put that fire out. They're going to activate, and they're going to do it with the least amount of damage possible, right? [Music] Once uh once these uh the firefighters are done cleaning up this room, you guys
can have a chance to walk up, get a close-up look and see the difference in the the two rooms, Right. I don't see a difference. [Music] Good. Good. All right. Back that line up and I'm going to have them come up. You guys
open up. All right. If anybody wants to come up, take a look at those two rooms. Just be mindful of the hose. Make sure uh it's not in your way. Please don't don't climb into the demonstration area. Please. They started putting it out at four
minutes, but you said it takes five to six minutes for a firetr to get there and on average. On average. So that would have been really that could have been and it would have extended into the rest of the home as well. So we have the benefit of open air here too where it's not as confined. Everybody lined up for their partners.
I'm ready. All right. I want to get the audio. [Applause] Nice. One, two, and three. Nice job. [Music] Throw it. Easy
jumps, man. Nice. [Music] Nice. Two, three. Nice. Hey, drop the will. Feel [Applause]
like throwing up. [Music] [Applause] Go back up. All right. Ready. [Music] Nice.
My bad. [Music] Come on. Drop it. Yeah. Yeah. Hard crack. Swing it. That's correct.
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