Claverarck Consolidation?

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Lawyer: Fire company consolidation would ease volunteer shortage

By W. T. Eckert

Register-Star

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

MELLENVILLE — Friday night’s scheduled meeting at the Mellenville Fire House to discuss the consolidation of Claverack’s five fire companies was postponed until a future date as yet to be determined.

Still in the stages of gathering information, it’s unclear whether the consolidation of the five companies will be a success.

“I think it is way early in the process,” said Columbia County Deputy Fire Coordinator George Keeler. “There are still some questions that have to be answered for the benefit of all the parties involved.”...

http://www.registerstar.com/articles/2011/09/27/news/doc4e814ef12187c316655664.txt

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I honestly can't see any drawbacks to this at all.

The fire service used to have many companies in a city with firehousesspread out, because the horses and steamers could only go so fast. This evolved in modern day fire companies.

There's a place for heritage and pride, but their also needs to be a place for progress.

Best quote from that article:

Pensky suggests a model for one department where all firefighters can work out of any house.

“If you look at FDNY or any city which has multiple firehouses, all the policies, procedures, leaderships and trucks are the same,” Pensky said. “They can assign them to a different (company) and it wouldn’t matter because everything’s the same. That’s what should be here. So the number one benefit to the residents? Volunteer response.”

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I honestly can't see any drawbacks to this at all.

The fire service used to have many companies in a city with firehousesspread out, because the horses and steamers could only go so fast. This evolved in modern day fire companies.

There's a place for heritage and pride, but their also needs to be a place for progress.

Best quote from that article:

Things like this never happened when Mayor Tommy Shanks was running things in Melonville!