Frankenmuth

29 465 N. Franklin Street ● Suite A ● Frankenmuth 989-652-6300 Frankenmuth & Saginaw County's #1 Independent, locally owned Real Estate Company since 2012! Jeff Monchilov Owner / Broker 989-239-9364 Courtney Wilson Sales Consultant 989-737-7585 Rachel Opperman Sales Consultant 989-385-1959 Andrew Keller Sales Consultant 810-444-2963 Todd Waller Sales Consultant 989-860-1161 Vicki Bender Sales Consultant 989-280-6026 Tracy Monchilov Assoc. Broker/Mgr. 989-652-6300 Contact us today for all your Real Estate needs! Michael L Southgate Financial Advisor 499 Franklin Street Suite B Frankenmuth, MI 48734 989-652-9622 Check us out on Facebook www.edwardjones.com Member SIPC Inves ng is about more than money. At Edward Jones, we stop to ask you the ques on: "What's important to you?" Without that insight and a real understanding of your goals, inves ng holds li le meaning. Contact your Edward Jones financial advisor for a one-on-one appointment to discuss what's really important: Your Goals. and does not become ventilation-limited, the presence of the modern synthetic fuel load will cause the fire to grow faster, burn hotter, and lead to flashover much quicker than a fire involving natural materials. NEW APPROACHES TO FIREFIGHTING ARE NEEDED With the changes in the environment that firefighters face, there's a trend toward more catastrophic losses, larger fires on arrival, and more fires growing out of control. Experience in the field, supported by research, has shown firefighting methods used in the past are not always effective. FIRE CHIEF'S SUMMARY Chief Kerns advised that these new studies confirm the need to have a minimum of 20 well trained firefighters at a house or other structure fire and why you see mutual aid being used more and more. Although Frankenmuth has a compliment of 35 volunteer firefighters, which is well beyond the capability of most all regional municipality's forces, training and review of new research and proposed new tactics is constant. Although volunteers, your Frankenmuth firefighters are professional and this Community continues to be blessed to have them available at a moment's notice. Chief Kerns also added that if it weren't for the cooperation of local employers to allow their volunteer firefighters to leave work for incidents during the work shift, the volunteer firefighting model would not be successful here, resulting in a major expense to the taxpayers to fund a paid fire department.

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