GOFSEA

At this time, the combined GOFSEA/Burn Foundation meeting will be held at Miami Valley Hospital in the 3rd floor Burn Center Conference Room. Meeting time will be 2:30 p.m.

The best parking is typically in the Apple Street garage. Enter the hospital via the skywalk and take the elevators (on the right) to the 3rd floor. Follow the signs to the Burn Center.

Miami Valley Hospital [map]
1 Wyoming St
Dayton, OH 45409
(937) 208-8000

A combined meeting of the Greater Ohio Fire Safety Educators Association — and the Miami Valley Firefighters Regional Burn Foundation — will be held Wednesday, 11 April 2007 beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Some of the discussion will involve our current juvenile firesetter intervention programs and possible plans for improving the service.

We will be meeting at the Miami Valley Hospital Burn Unit conference room (3NW). Remember to park in the Apple Street parking garage. Take the skywalk over to the hospital. Once inside the building, turn right to the bank of elevators. Take this to the 3rd floor. Follow the signs to the burn unit.  The hospital map can found at this link.

Just a reminder to all that the March meeting is being held at Miami Valley Hospital (Dayton) in the Burn Center Conference room at 2:00 p.m. This is a new time and location and you will want to mark your calendars for this for future meetings, as well.*

GOFSEA meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month except for October.

The hospital map can found at this link. Park in the Apple Street garage and walk across the skywalk. Turn right just inside the door and go to the elevators. Take this to the 3rd floor and follow the signs to the Burn Unit.

*Our meeting will immediately precede the Miami Valley Firefighters Regional Burn Foundation meeting.

The conference call is still scheduled for today.  It will begin at 1:00pm EST.  Call information can be found in the prior post or in the right hand menu under “Pages”.

A conference call is scheduled for next week. We are going to attempt
to “meet” by phone to take care of a few outstanding GOFSEA
“housecleaning” issues.

1. Greg Smith, Dayton FD, has a proposal on the table asking GOFSEA to contribute some funds toward production of a video PSA that can be used in the region. He has had very good success in the past with his PSA campaigns… this would be further reaching. Your vote is appreciated.
2. There are some expenses for GOFSEA that might need to be discussed, including the replacement of a hard drive for the secretary/association laptop.
3. Meeting times/dates/locations may be changing if the membership approves doing so. The Miami Valley Firefighters Regional Burn Association meets the same day (2nd Wednesday) as GOFSEA and includes many GOFSEA members. There is thought of holding the meetings at the same location — and consecutively — to ease some of the time/travel burdens by members.

Please respond to the list email if you can attend the conference call on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 at 1:00 PM. Call information is found on the right hand menu of the GOFSEA web site under the PAGES category. It is called “Conference Call Info“.

Here are the specifics, as well:
Dial 1-218-486-1300
Enter code: 606335
Record your name when prompted.

In many cases, the conference will be open for free discussion. However, if we are conducting official business it may be necessary to mute all attendees other than the person that has “the floor.”

When you join the conference, please press “4*” to mute your line until prompted for discussion.

Again, please respond if you can attend the conference call session. An email to the group list at gofsea [at] googlegroups [dot] com will be best. (Remove the bracketed items and replace with the appropriate symbol. Formatted to avoid spam to the group.)
Thank you!
Rich Palmer
GOFSEA Secretary

Because many of the members either couldn’t get to work due to the weather conditions — or they are obligated to their agencies as a result of such conditions — we’re cancelling the meeting for today.

Please check your calendars for next Wednesday, 21 February.  We will attempt to hold the meeting then.

If the snow doesn’t lock us down at our agencies, the GOFSEA meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 14 February will be held STARTING at 1:30 p.m. at the Miami Valley Hospital Burn Conference room, 3 NW.

Park in the Apple Street garage and come across the skywalk to the hospital. Turn to your right once inside the door and take the elevator to 3rd floor. Follow the signs to the burn unit.

This meeting will proceed the Miami Valley Firefighters Regional Burn Association meeting. It is possible the two meetings will merge. If you can only stay for the GOFSEA meeting, that is fine.

We will discuss some current and future projects, plans, and ideas for GOFSEA in 2007.

REMEMBER: This meeting starts an HOUR LATER than usual and will be held at MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL.

Thanks!
Rich

P.S. Check your email (if you are subscribed to the GOFSEA Google group) and the GOFSEA web site for updates relating to weather cancellations if needed.

Due to several persons not able to attend the January 10 meeting, the GOFSEA President (Chuck Arnold) has asked that the meeting be postponed.

Please check your email or RSS subscription for information on the rechedule date. The meeting will be held via telephone conference call. We would like to test some new technologies to find out if they are usable for GOFSEA activities. This may give us wider reach, more productivity, and of course better opportunities to meet the GOFSEA mission statement.

Remember, this site and the Google email list are two ways to always find out what is happening in fire and life safety. They don’t work, however, without your participation and input.

Please disregard the previous post for the Burn Foundation meeting.  This was posted on the wrong web site!  This is what happens when one manages too many sites, I suppose. 

The December GOFSEA meeting will be held as scheduled.  Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 at 11:30 a.m. at Ronald McDonald House, Dayton.

The November 8 GOFSEA meeting WILL be held at 12:30 p.m. at the Ronald McDonald House in Dayton. Please see the meeting information using the link in the right hand section of this web site.