City has one less fire engine as of Saturday

[GOYABEAN]

City has one less fire engine as of Saturday

NEWBURGH- The City of Newburgh Fire Department is operating one less fire engine beginning today due to staffing changes instituted by City Manager Todd Venni

midhudsonnews.com

 

[ManualF150]

Yep, get rid of emergency responders. Just what we need.

Reminds me of the closure of a lot of volunteer fire departments back in the day.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Yep, get rid of emergency responders. Just what we need.

Reminds me of the closure of a lot of volunteer fire departments back in the day.

Fire is racist in this new woke generation

 

[Defilade]

Now if we can only shrink Government in this fashion..

 

[fresch]

Yet you still pay the full shot on your tax bill due at the end of this month. Therefore they couldn't care less.

 

[Jmac]

Times-Record today while Newburgh had 2nd alarm fire at same time

 

[Grimscale]

so there are two firehouses in Newburgh?

Let me guess, House # 2 is near the politician's property, and House #1 is near the ghetto?

 

[1075tech]

Eh... Everyone is playing politics as usual. The paid city FFs are unionized - IAFF.

What they won't tell you is that on a second alarm, the PAID departments from West Point, Beacon, and Castle Point VA get called to the scene. The off duty FFs get recalled. The 7 volunteer departments within a few miles of the city either don't get called at all; get called to stand-by; or get called to the scene on a third alarm.

There have been times when a volunteer department has had to pass the scene to go to the public safety building for standby while NFD was still waiting for the paid mutual aid to show up.

It's a game and they're in it for the $$$. The only ones I feel for are the residents who suffer as a result

 

[GOYABEAN]

City plan reducing staffing at FD backfires on day one

NEWBURGH - Just hours after staffing changes to the fire department took a fire engine out of service, the City of Newburgh had to call back firefighters for a

midhudsonnews.com

 

[GOYABEAN]

Newburgh mayor says bringing volunteers into FD will solve staffing issues

NEWBURGH – Reducing manpower on the shifts of the paid Newburgh City Fire Department is the way to reduce more than $1 million a year overtime, City Manager T

midhudsonnews.com

 

[kev74]

White volunteers need not apply.

"....negotiate for some volunteers so that we can get some of these African American men and women, and Hispanic men and women, who live in the city, to volunteer,” he said."

Im sure if this plan were to materialize, there would be no tension or hard feelings between the firemen getting paid $100k a year and the volunteers getting paid $0.

They should do volunteer cops, garbage men and DPW workers too!

 

[MikeGrad]

good luck bringing in volunteers. In these times its difficult to get volunteers in the best of departments. This place is clearly toxic.

Oh and don't forget the 165 hours training to complete the required NY Fire 1 to be an interior firefighter.