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Originally Posted by DAEpperson
I think the FD and their union is trying to scare us with threats of decreased response times if we do anything to the FD. We are a city of 60K people, 24K households over 15 square miles. You can get from any point in the city to any other in about 10 minutes. Yet we have 4 fire stations (plus 1 county station), 39 firefighters and an administrative staff of 8, all per the FD website. And these are above and beyond all regular city staff. This is such overkill it's insane!
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What staffing level would you like to see? Would one station covering the whole 15 square mile work?