Raz

I agree 100%, I was just trying to tiptoe around the same paid vs. vol debate.

Cutting or breaking off the blade? I think some of you guys have been getting your BLS tips from watching Braveheart.

I think one thing we haven't seen much of over the last few years has been the disbanding of paid departments and replacing them with volunteers. Besides, if I'm correctly understanding what you're describing, you're advocating covering the same population and square milage with less manpower.

NEVER remove the object, it's helping to stem the bleeding and you could damage the spinal column (well, more) by pulling it out. Dress the wound and transport prone.

I don't think naming the dispatch agency is essential, I figure everyone knows who dispatches a given department. Giving the dispatcher's personal number might not be a bad idea, lord knows you guys don't get enough credit. Let me take a moment to personally thank all of the underappreciated dispatchers reading this, you guys are awesome.

Wow, seeing it all laid out and broken down like that just makes it seem more lucrative. I sincerely hope this bill passes.

I thought I'd be on my own, but I'm glad to see a few people on here who agree with me. That brings me to my next point, everyone spouting off about how "tearing the building down is dishonoring the memory of the dead and disresectful to firefighters" isn't a firefighter themselves. The historical society? Not a single firefighter among them. The President of Centennial Hose, Pat Esposito? Not a firefighter. The guy who made ? Not a firefighter. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick of seeing my profession's name and sense of honor invoked to support a political cause that I think is a waste. If my union rep wants to throw my name around, fine. If some nutjob with a hardon for old buildings wants to speak for me, without asking, I take offense. Oh and if (heaven forbid) I die in a fire, whatever you do...don't tell my story using scenes from Backdraft set to a sh*tty Mariah Carey song.

I, for one, don't want to see it saved. It's a waste. The building is a dilapidated shell, and it hasn't even had a roof since as far back as I can remember. With all of the financial problems that the city will have to face in the coming recession, spending more than a million dollars on a project like this is sickening. Shame on the people saying that it's direspectful to the two firefighters that lost their lives in 1918. The city has built a memorial at the site of their death, and is planning on building another memorial in the future. Their pictures hang in the new Centennial firehouse on Washington Street. We don't need to save yet another building (and I use that word loosely) to honor them.

It's about time. It warms my heart to know that someone, somewhere, is finally sick of driving past $19,000,000 fire houses that were pushed forward by people calling themselves "taxpayer advocates".