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Philadelphia Begins Rolling Closures
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The Philadelphia Fire Department is beginning rolling brownouts Monday.
The city's Engine 57 is one of three companies to be temporarily closed to save the cash-strapped department money. The company is located at 57th and Chestnut Streets. Residents in the area told Fox 29's Ty Chandler they are concerned for the neighborhood's safety.
Firefighters from closed companies will be moved to other fire stations to cover sick and vacationing colleagues.
The rolling closures will save the city an estimated four million dollars in overtime costs. The firefighters union does not support the move. It says one reason for costly overtime is because 100 positions have been eliminated.
Union officials will hold a news conference Monday morning.
Reprinted with Permission
The Philadelphia Fire Department is beginning rolling brownouts Monday.
The city's Engine 57 is one of three companies to be temporarily closed to save the cash-strapped department money. The company is located at 57th and Chestnut Streets. Residents in the area told Fox 29's Ty Chandler they are concerned for the neighborhood's safety.
Firefighters from closed companies will be moved to other fire stations to cover sick and vacationing colleagues.
The rolling closures will save the city an estimated four million dollars in overtime costs. The firefighters union does not support the move. It says one reason for costly overtime is because 100 positions have been eliminated.
Union officials will hold a news conference Monday morning.
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Permalink Reply by Oldman on
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Seems to be a fair amount of area which will have to rely on outside companies. What you say WP?
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The fire service will always take a backseat to law enforcement.
I haven't been to Philly in years, and don't know the areas affected, but perhaps the city is hoping to promote "urban renewal".
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mackie on
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Wonder if any of the closures will be in any of the councilors' or the Mayor's, or the city admin. response area?
Oh WTF am I thinking? thesepricpoliticians have done their homework, and won't be closing anything they might affect them or their families... bunch of pukes! oops, can I say that word? ;)
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Cole on
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Whenever we see station closures, or "Brownouts" ( the brainiac ideas of those who think with their brown eye) there is always the politician or duped department leader who insists public safety is NOT in jeopardy, and that response times will NOT be affected, and all is well.
OK, well that means that those stations and/or companies closed were never needed in the first place, right? So years, decades or running that company, engine, or ladder was all a big waste? It wasn't needed, but what the heck, let's fund a station here anyways???
The play on words is pitiful. A Ladder Company is diactivated, leaving the engine in the house. And so a fatality occurs because the first-due ladder was removed, and the now first-due ladder, which would have been the second-due, is committed to it's own primary local on a run, and so now the THIRD-due ladder becomes the first. The good Mayor states that it was't a factor, as response time did NOT suffer...the engine was on location within 3 minutes!
Perhaps the bars on the window precluded the rescue, the lack of a 35' ladder played a factor...but that didn't matter. Ya see as long as ya got WATER, nobody will die! Ummm, except that the locals in which ENGINE's are closed, and now only have ladder companies...face the opposite danger. Like Engine/Deluge 14, for example...leaving ladder 15 to cover that local alone. And it's a BUSY local, too.
Nah, ya can close half the stations, eliminate half the companies, with NO threat to public safety. Isn't that obvious?
WHY, THEN MAYOR, COMMISSIONER, DID WE HAVE THESE COMPANIES IN THE FIRST PLACE???
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