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My thoughts and prayers are with the entire Arena family. Throughout this difficult time you have shown others the meaning of hope and fortitude. May God bless you all.

Good posts from all. What we all have to remember, regardless of what our logos may say, is that we are all trying to mitigate a matter to which the public has called us. The environment of what we are all dealing with today is vastly different from anything that we have seen in our history. Every incident is mulitfaceted, with the need to have input and expertise from PD, FD, EMS, any any other special agency that may be needed. If any one of our agencies fail, we all fail because we have not resolved the matter to the best of our capabilities. How do any of us explain that to the public? PD's have ESU to provide a function of specialized training to assist their fellow officers. FD's have rescue companies to do the same for their fellow firefighters. Each has their special tools and equipment and assignments, based upon what their budgets allow. We're all on the same team here, trying to do a job and make the public have some confidence in our ability to protect them and help them in their time of need. We do our best work when we work together - as tough as that may be at times, especially in certain communities. The negative comments about any agency serve no pupose to help any emergency responder.