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Queen Creek enters training agreement with Phoenix Fire
Deal will be a ‘backup’ for town
Town of Queen Creek
Permanent Fire Station 5 is located at 245 W. Combs Road.
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Queen Creek has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Phoenix for fire service training.
The agreement, part of the consent agenda, was unanimously approved by the Queen Creek Town Council at its Wednesday, Oct. 5 meeting.
The agreement will serve as a backup for the Queen Creek Fire & Medical Department if it should ever need to use Phoenix Fire Department services.
The Phoenix Fire Department operates a regional training facility and conducts various types of programs and training opportunities for itself and other fire departments throughout the Phoenix region.
“Queen Creek does not regularly utilize the Phoenix Training Center for any type of training for our firefighters,” according to a staff report. “Queen Creek uses other regional training facilities to train and educate our firefighters in areas such as recruit firefighter training and regional fire training activities. Formal IGAs are in place with agencies that Queen Creek currently uses.”
The agreement does not have an initial fiscal impact on the town, however, should “Queen Creek send any staff in the future, payment to Phoenix would take place from budgeted funds on a ‘pay as you go’ arrangement,” the staff report stated.
