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Originally Posted by Radioactive
Dave I think our town should cross train the police to be fireman or the other way around, There doesn't seem to be that many fires or big crime and if there is a car accident the police have to show up anyways. Instead of the fireman sitting around waiting for a fire they can patrol the streets. Or since they Police are patrolling the streets they can put out the fires and give medical aid. If you have a Policeman/Fireman/EMT already in a moving vehicle wouldn't the response time be very good. Isn't Our Police Chief the Fire Chief. If he can do it why can't everybody
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This has been tried in several areas. Last place I visited like this was Rosemount, Ill. They have stations with just drivers/engineers and they take the trucks to a call and then a whole bunch of police cars show up for manpower.
Only problem is the crooks figured out when there is a fire there are no police around. So they would set a fire and then go do a robbery.