Milford Fire Department Holds Open House, Demonstration

Information via Fire Battalion Chief and Public Information Officer Adam Hansen

MILFORD, CT — This past Saturday, April 13th, the Milford Fire Department held an Open House/Demonstration at #55 Seeman’s Lane, our Training Facility. All members of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Fire Commissioners were invited to attend. With this event, we aimed to have an open dialogue and had the opportunity to demonstrate the many facets of what the modern-day fire service consists of. Many still think the fire service is simply “putting out fires” but in 2024, it is so much more than that. We truly are an “All Hazards Mitigation” service.

During this event, we had the opportunity to demonstrate a small sample of the disciplines for which we are responsible for.

We had an Extrication Scenario set up. With all the roadways we have passing through our City, I – 95, Route 15, the Feeder, Boston Post Rd, the frequency of accidents is a constant area we must respond to and mitigate.

A big part of what we do is EMS. With this we have a Cardiac Arrest Scenario set up where we had companies responding in and showing how we work a cardiac arrest in the field.

The last thing we demonstrated was a Vehicle Fire. Again, with all the roadways we have crossing through our city, vehicle fires are a regular occurrence. With this we practiced how we play and exercised all safety precautions necessary.

A special thanks to Frank Cioffi, from Milford Auto Recycling for the donation of the cars for this demonstration, (in total he has donated well over x25 vehicles to our department for training this year. We could not have executed the quality training we did throughout the year without his generous donations.)

There was a fantastic showing of Alders and Commissioners at this event. We thank everyone who attended and made the day such a success!