martin ross

look guys the fact is that so far it seems to be working well. the only people that have lost their jobs apparantly are senior officers. their jobs are now covered by officers of a lesser rank. i.e a station manager is now covering two stations instead of one.

there is not any noticable change to frontline services. its mainly been support and senior management thats been affected. i.e less workshops and one chief fire officer instead of eight. as for the police. what they have done is taken away the eight independent forces and replaced them with thirty two divisions.

Making a regionalized "County Fire District" is an easy way around those rules, right??? You are still only forming a fire district yet this one would be county wide and easier managed.
I believe that is the only thing that will save our county fire service here. My department has only 9 interior qualified firefighters, 6 of us are officers yet you go 10 minutes south of us and they have over 50 members, 3 engines, tanker, heavy rescue, 95' tower, brush unit, gator rescue atv, 2 ambulances, ALS fly car/captains vehicle and average 500-600 calls a year. We can barely get 3-4 FF's to a call with 2-3 rigs and they can cover two calls at once (have seen them do it). Regionalize our county and half of their members instantly became eligible to respond to our station for calls to get rigs out the door faster with more qualified personnel then before. I see nothing wrong with that! And I am an assistant chief of my department, I could care less if another larger department, more qualified with more trained members and better equipment comes in and takes over my sandbox...I will still be in the box playing, just with more friends and better toys!

there is not any noticable change to frontline services. its mainly been support and senior management thats been affected. i.e less workshops and one chief fire officer instead of eight. as for the police. what they have done is taken away the eight independent forces and replaced them with thirty two divisions.

there is not any noticable change to frontline services. its mainly been support and senior management thats been affected. i.e less workshops and one chief fire officer instead of eight. as for the police. what they have done is taken away the eight independent forces and replaced them with thirty two divisions.