Welcome to the City of Plantation's Podcast. In this Episode, Deputy Chief Joel Gordon and Division Chief Ezra Lubow speak with Plantation Fire Department's Fire Chief, Donald Todd. We discuss various topics regarding actions the Fire Department is taking to address the Pandemic, and how those actions complement, the actions taken by the City of Plantation. This Podcast is aimed at keeping the residents of Plantation informed regarding how the City and its various Departments are responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please subscribe to this podcast, as we will be producing new episodes on a regular basis.
Guest Speaker: Fire Chief Donald Todd
Host: Deputy Chief Gordon / Division Chief Lubow
Producer: Ezra Lubow
Music: Oakwood Station - Summer Breeze Memories
Cover Art: The City of Plantation
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello plantation. Welcome to the city of plantations podcast. I'm dr Jay formerly with plantation information radio. Thank you for tuning in. We hope the information provided within the episodes of this podcast helped keep you your family and your friends safe during this pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This week. We are pleased to be joined by our own fire chief Donald Todd jr or as we call him, chief Todd. Chief taught as a lifelong member of the plantation fire department through his short tenure as chief. He's already led the emergency management team through a hurricane and an explosion, but I think even he'll tell you the Covid outbreak has really challenged everyone. We're also joined today by the medicine man himself, EMS division chief Ezra Lubow. We're going to spend some time with chief Todd and chief Lubow discussing the city's overall approach to managing the COVID outbreak, specifically what the fire department is doing to respond and some of the unique challenges that the COVID response presents as opposed to a hurricane or other type of disaster. So chief. Todd, welcome and thank you for taking the time to be with us and to speak with the citizens of plantation. Well thank you for inviting me. How you doing today? Oh, we're hanging in there. You know, we're all dealing with this issue and we're trying to do the best we can.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I agree best we can and we are hanging in there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's, that's I think all we can count on at this time. So, so chief, if you could start us off with just a summary of the fire department's overall approach to the Corona virus response. And really where we are today.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
This is unusual. It's not like a hurricane or tornado or, or other major events. This is something that no one was expecting. We weren't expecting, the country wasn't expecting it, we weren't prepared for it. The country's not prepared for it. So it's a day by day, hour by hour changes that we're trying to stay ahead of and, and we adapt as they come. Some of the challenges we've had has been to make sure that we maintain our PPE cause PPE is in our personal protective equipment. As you can see on the news every day. That
