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You all have heard that a million times in the last two weeks. And that's what we're going to keep to protect us, our families, and the public. There's going to be times that we're going to have to go in houses. It's just, that's the nature of the beast, but we'll be wearing protective gear, i.e. a face mask, probably glove up, and that's orders per orders of our chief of police. So if we come in your house and have to come in your house and you can't come to the door, then we're probably going to be wearing a face mask. It protects you and us. If we do come in contact with you and we do work your collision or your case, we're going to give you a copy of that. There is a way to get that without coming to the police station. And one of the ways to get that is, there's two different sites. One is called bycrash.com. The other one's called bycrimes.com. We'll put everything on it. It's going to have a local code, which is the report number. So have our badge number, everything on it. All you've got to do is wait five days, get online, and print out at your house or your business. We are disinfecting our police cars on a regular basis. At least twice a day. And if we have to take somebody to jail, haul somebody into the jail, we disinfect it afterwards. We don't want people sitting down to think, they're already scared. And it would be more frightening to them to think, well, our police department is not going to be, they're going to stand in the building and not come out of it. That's not going to happen. We're going to be, exactly what we've always been. So make sure you remember that. We're not going to be that way, okay? When you come to the front door, we'll tell you exactly every, almost every question you could ask will be on that front door. Fingerprinting, no. We're not going to be doing fingerprinting. Until our chief tells us that it's safe to do so, or CDC says it's safe to do so. Keeping the back of your head, we're going to come to you. We're going to do everything we always have done. But let's think about what the governor said and the CDC said. If something can wait to a better day, and we will weather this storm, you know, like we're strong communities, strong counties, strong county government, strong city government, everybody's going to weather this storm. We just need to do it the proper way and the correct way. And if things can wait till the storm's over, then we can fix it better. As far as the fire department in response to COVID-19, some of the biggest things that we as the fire department, as well as the city leadership, the fire departments will be closed off to the public, as well as the family members of those firefighters and first responders that we do have here 24-7. We're here all day, all night, ready for response. We're going to be responding and taking care of any call that may come in play. Whether it be 911 or non-emergent, we're still going to be responding with fire apparatus as well as our ambulances. The lobbies will be closed. In the event that you do need to contact the fire department, you can call our phone number, which is 437-5120 to get in contact with a firefighter there. As far as any reports that may need to be retrieved, you can submit those by paper or by mail and or card to the fire department to see if you get a fire report. Fire prevention, CPR classes, fire inspections, housing inspections, all those are going to be halted for this point in time. I'm just taking those extra steps to where it's still within the public, but trying to limit exposure as much as possible. We're going to continue to clean just as much as what we always do because we like to make sure that the back of that ambulance is ready for the next person. And that's what we tell our personnel is think about your family member being the next patient inside of that in the back of that ambulance. So that's how we treat every ambulance call that we go on. Our goal is not only to protect the citizens but also to protect our responders. So there is going to be additional questioning going on when you call and we ask the public, please bear with us when we're asking those questions. Every EMS call is going to be pre-screened for the chance of COVID-19. And our EMS folks will be notified if anything meets that criteria. It's going to change the way we do business on the law enforcement side as well. We're going to be doing a lot of pre-screenings and those pre-screenings is, does it need an in-person response? In the case that it doesn't, you'll either be put on a phone to a police officer or we'll have an officer call you back. Now that officer may decide after he talks to you, he needs to come see you and by all means he will. The main thing we want to do is we don't want to EMS crews and our law enforcement folks walking in blind. So any information we can get them will help them, help the caller, help everybody as a whole. That's one thing I want to get out there to, we're open and we're open for service just as we've always been. We're going to continue to provide that service. Each dispatcher is required to clean at the beginning of their shift and at the ending of their shift. That way, if they accidentally come across it when they come in, we're getting disinfected on the end and the out. So, you know, our goal is to keep our guys healthy so we can keep providing this service and give you all the best response we can. We know people are scared right now and we're an uncharted territory too. We as a city have never handled anything like this. This is not like a flood or bad weather or anything. This is something that you can't see. You know, bear with us. That's what we're here for. We're to help and I know sometimes it sounds silly but we got to ask those really tough questions during really tough times.