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After you vote, hit the red "vote for a firehouse now" on upper left side and you can vote more than once.

Fire never got inside the exposure but burnt all the siding off of it. we were in the alley between the houses with a 2 1/2. great stop.

As of now.. Who knows what the future holds

I think there are plenty people in state govt that would pass almost anything in order to get re-elected. As said before, they cant pass a budget, which is actually important to EVERYONE, but can pass this which benefits a few.

I also heard it has a ton of rescue equipment and not much tactical stuff at all. Concrete breakers, boat,stanley system, torches, search camera's, air shore, rescue jacks, etc... Is it me or does this sound like what YFD Rescue 1 carries? Duplication od service?

The max age is 28 when taking the exam.

He did. By 1. What a joke.

The way he is talking at the moment, its 44 ff that would recieve pink slips.

"as I told you I was never much of an engine guy but i've developed a newfound appreciation for what they do after standing in front of some jobs with my white helmet on and basically praying someone would put some water on the fire fast (which they usually do)....it' funny how i always thought us truck and engine guys put the fires out but my first job as a chief all i could think of was water, water, water..." Its great that you finally realize who the "real" workers are. There is a reason that truck guys are called "firefighter helpers"

sounds good

Dind, ding, ding. You win the prize. Contract neg are coming up and thats exactly what he trying to do. The school district is a seperate budget, but it doesn't the taxing ability like other places. They submit a budget to the mayor and than he finds a way to fund it. Usually it comes from municipal side or "one-shot" deal from the state.

I may be naive and ignorant, but the Mayor placed the fault of the Citys ways on the State and its cuts to education. I can see how this would affect teachers and the schools, but what does that have to do with emergency services? The problem here is that the school side has its own budget and the other side is municipal. When the schools are shorted, he takes from municipal, and gives it to the schools. Also, school cuts can't happen until end of school year. Municipal cuts can happen when are needed.

How fast he forgets. He could do alot of cost savings in his office alone. Boy has he changed.

Yes it would Golden Boy

Does anyone know where I can find out how many runs they went on? Nothing on the website about it, just that they won first place in the parade. In a place this small with so many departments within a close proximity, you cant tell me it would not be cheaper to contract out or, god forbid, merge with another department. (sorry for the crazy thinking)