Posts Tagged: Budget
Does overtime use equal abuse? Dave takes on a reporter’s claim about the DC Fire & EMS Department. Plus, Chief Ellerbe pushes forward with his shift change plan.
Dave wants the reporter to present some facts. The chief wants to do away with 24-hour shifts.
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Hialeah, Florida department strips paramedic gear from fire trucks. Chief calls it a misunderstanding following ‘brainstorming’ session.
Chief says a "brainstorming" session to save money somehow became an order.
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County Considers Trimming Fire-Rescue Budget
Myrtle Beach Herald
HORRY COUNTY -- Should Horry County spend $5 million to hire nearly 100 firefighters or cut almost $3 million from the fire department's budget?
Those were two ideas discussed Tuesday during the meeting of a committee that&rsquo…
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San Francisco 1st alarm shrinks 40%
Another way of describing shrinking fire department resources
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The Right View Point of the Fire Service
This video speaks for itself, no other comments required; Listen in.....
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Allen Park to lay off entire Fire Department
You just cannot make this stuff up! Allen Park to lay off entire Fire Department. That's right the entire department except for the Chief. Just in case you are wondering, Allen Park is small city just outside of Detorit with a size of 7 square miles. The best part of the whole story, is city officals do not have a backup plan to provide fire service!
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FDNY Company Staffing Reductions
FDNY expects to save about $30 million a year by not having to pay overtime to staff the extra firefighters, officials said.
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SHOT OF THE DAY: Baltimore Firefighters Protest Pay Decrease At City Hall
[fblike]Baltimore City firefighters and police at a news conference in front of City Hall last Friday (Jan. 7). They were protesting their pay cuts as part of the city's attempt to balance the budget. (via Flikr and The Daily Record/Rich Dennison)
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FF’s Raise Money With Halloween Fun
CHESNEE, SC -- A volunteer fire department in Spartanburg County is using a seasonal tradition to help raise money.
Firefighters and volunteers with the Cooley Springs Volunteer Fire Department are in dire need of new equipment or upgraded equipment i…
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Change To Salaries Upsets FF’s
NINETY SIX -- The 2010-11 budget for the town of Ninety Six was approved by the mayor and five out of six council members during a called town council meeting Monday night.
During a called vote, only councilman Todd Mullinax voted against the 2010-11 …
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County Won’t Pay Insurance; FF’s Can’t Use Truck
County changed their minds and took away the insurance on the truck.
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Commissioners Discuss FD Budget
HOLLY SPRINGS -- On Tuesday night, the commission met to vote to hire a Certified Public Accountant to perform an audit of the department's finances, at a cost of at least $7,000.
The board also said they plan to discuss at a future meeting, a small p…
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Fund for New Trucks Approved
LAURENS COUNTY -- County council gave final approval to the 2010-11 fire service budget Tuesday, and in the process set up a new reserve fund for purchasing new vehicles for county fire departments. By resolution, council created a new fund for necessary…
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Westview-Fairforest Fire Taxpayers Question Spending
WESTVIEW-FAIRFOREST -- Despite an improved balance sheet, the Westview-Fairforest Fire District had a financial elephant in the room at the commissioners meeting Tuesday night — and a 2010 Chevy Tahoe in the garage. Concerned residents questioned why…
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County Hires Firm to Assess EMS Services and Fire Departments
A comprehensive report on Beaufort County's emergency-medical and fire services should be completed by December, barring unforeseen events, according to the county's director of public safety.
The County Council approved spending $225,963 Monday to hi…
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Short on Cash for Special Operations? Consider moving your personnel to a special ops engine
Special Operations are the first to go during tight budgets
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Squirrel In The Middle of The Road
Our job entails more than just responding to emergencies. It entails responding to community needs and assisting our neighbors. That assistance comes in many forms, but the agencies who get it will be survivors, and those who don't, well, I think you can figure that out yourself. It's not a matter of "if", but "when".
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Honolulu Fire Boat Faces Sinking Budget
Special Operations Units across the country face cuts
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Thanks for increasing the chance that my wife and children will get a visit from my Chief and a Chaplain.
The economy is in the dumps, the teabag revolution is morphing, and it is politically rewarding to slash the budgets across the board, no matter the true cost. What will it take to find a way to bring costs down without killing us, your so-called heroes?
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Quick Takes
Wednesday's Quick Takes: Mayor wants to look at replacing 95-member career department with volunteers; Firefighters request 50% pay cut; Dave needed to make sure he wasn't delusional upon reading this article from NH; Fiber factory fire; A subtle sprinkler ad right under our noses; Another Maine firefighter charged with arson; Fire chief charged with battery against former member; Firefighter goes from one probation to another.
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Elgin’s Bloody Turnip
In the last 12 months, Elgin, IL firefighters have faced not one, but two rounds of layoffs. Now, new cuts are being floated. One begins to wonder just how much more can be cut without affecting the safety of the firefighters and their public.
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Paul Boyer Funeral Arrangements
We've received notes from many of you having trouble locating the arrangements for Paul, so we've posted them here.
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Be This Guy
Thankfully, this helmet cam hasn't yet been banned. See it and learn from it. Be this guy.
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Stuff I Lerned Today
Today, I lerned how to make fire hoze.
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