[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of New
Lisbon 4-2-2001 as Secs. 5-2-1, 5-2-2, 5-2-4 and 5-2-6 of the 2001 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The Fire Department of the City of New Lisbon shall consist
of a Chief, Assistant Chief, and all other persons belonging to the
Fire Department, and all persons who may be organized or appointed
with the approval of the Police and Fire Commission for extinguishing
fires or preserving life and property.
Members of the Fire Department shall receive no set salary but
shall be paid for each answer to a call and for two fire drills a
month, as determined by the Police and Fire Commission.
A.
The primary objective of the fire defense program is to serve all
citizens, without prejudice or favoritism, by safeguarding, collectively
and individually, their lives against the effects of fires and explosions.
B.
The second objective of the fire defense program is to safeguard
the general economy and welfare of the community by preventing major
conflagrations and the destruction by fire of industries and businesses.
C.
The third objective of the fire defense program is to protect the
property of all citizens against the effects of fire and explosions.
All property deserves equal protection, regardless of location or
monetary value.
The Common Council shall appropriate funds to provide for personnel,
operation and for such apparatus and equipment for the use of the
Fire Department as it may deem expedient and necessary to maintain
efficiency and properly protect life and property from fire.
A.
General supervision. The Chief shall have the general supervision
of the Department under the general administration of the Police and
Fire Commission. He/she shall be responsible for the personnel and
general efficiency of the Department.
B.
Department budget. Not later than October 1 of each year, the Chief
shall file with the City Clerk-Treasurer a detailed estimate of the
appropriations needed for the conduct of the Department during the
ensuing fiscal year.
C.
Enforcement of fire prevention ordinances. The Fire Chief shall enforce
all fire prevention ordinances of the City and state laws and regulations
pertaining to fire prevention and shall keep citizens informed on
fire prevention methods and on the activities of the Department.
D.
Reports. The Fire Chief shall keep a report of every fire to which
the Department was called and shall enter in such report the locality
of the fire, time alarm was received, cause of fire, where fire started,
cause of delay (if any) in responding, method of extinguishment and
equipment used, estimated fire loss, time fire was extinguished, names
of firefighters responding and general remarks.[2]
B.
The Fire Chief of the New Lisbon Fire Department may prescribe certain
limits in the vicinity of any fire within which no persons, except
firefighters and law enforcement officers and those admitted by order
of any officer of the Department, shall be permitted to come.
C.
The Fire Chief of the New Lisbon Fire Department shall have the power
to cause the removal of any property whenever it shall become necessary
for the preservation of such property from fire or to prevent the
spreading of fire or to protect the adjoining property, and during
the progress of any fire he/she shall have the power to cause the
removal of all wires or other facilities and the turning off of all
electricity or other services where the same impedes the work of the
Department during the progress of a fire.
D.
During the progress of any fire, the Fire Chief or his/her assistant
shall have the power to order the removal or destruction of any property
necessary to prevent the further spread of fire, provided that it
is inevitable that, unless such property is removed, other property
is in danger of being destroyed by fire.
A.
The Fire Chief of the New Lisbon Fire Department shall be the Fire
Inspector of the City of New Lisbon and shall have the power to appoint
one or more Deputy Fire Inspectors and shall perform all duties required
of fire inspectors by the laws of the state and rules of the Wisconsin
Department of Safety and Professional Services, particularly § 101.14,
Wis. Stats.
B.
While acting as Fire Inspector pursuant to § 101.14(2),
Wis. Stats., the Fire Chief, or any officer of the Fire Department
designated by the Fire Chief of the New Lisbon Fire Department, shall
have the right and authority to enter any building or upon any premises
in the City of New Lisbon at all reasonable hours for the purpose
of making inspections or investigations which, under the provisions
of this Code of Ordinances, he/she may deem necessary. Should the
Fire Inspector find that any provisions of this Code relating to fire
hazards and prevention of fires are being violated, or that a fire
hazard exists which should be eliminated, it shall be his/her duty
to give such directions for the abatement of such conditions as he/she
shall deem necessary.
C.
The Chief of the New Lisbon Fire Department is required, by himself/herself
or by officers or members of the Fire Department designated by him/her
as fire inspectors, to inspect all buildings, premises and public
thoroughfares, except the interiors of private dwellings, for the
purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions
liable to cause fire, or any violations of any law or ordinance relating
to fire hazards or to the prevention of fires. Such inspections shall
be made at least once in six months in all of the territory served
by the New Lisbon Fire Department and more often as the Chief orders.
Each six-month period shall begin on January 1 and July 1 of each
year. Repairs or alterations necessary to remove the hazardous condition
shall be made within a reasonable time at the expense of the owner.
The Inspector shall also investigate the storage and handling of explosives
and inflammable liquids within the City.
It shall be lawful for any firefighter while acting under the
direction of the Fire Chief or any other officer in command to enter
upon the premises adjacent to or in the vicinity of a building or
other property then on fire for the purpose of extinguishing such
fire, and in case any person shall hinder, resist or obstruct any
firefighter in the discharge of his/her duty as is hereinbefore provided,
the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of resisting firefighters
in the discharge of their duty.
