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Date Posted: Friday, March28, 09:11:am
Author: Good question
Subject: Re: How long before short staffs kill a firefighter?
In reply to: A real question 's message, "Re: How long before short staffs kill a firefighter?" on Thursday, March27, 07:44:pm

There is only two initial responding companies to any fire emergency in the city. One truck, one engine. Between the two apparatus, there is 4 personnel to each. With a total of eight, take out the two drivers, leaving six members to search, rescue and extinguish a fire. This a dangerous situation because it leaves no one to back up those committed firefighters if they become victims of the emergency. There is no FAST team on scene to rescue the rescuers. Hence mutual aid, which takes time to assemble and deploy. If there was a second engine on staff, that's an additional 4 committed personnel to assist with rescue and extinguishment of fire. Also, it could provide backup for any downed firefighter at the scene, as opposed to showing up with a skeleton crew to combat the life hazard. There are also other considerations like building size, residential or commercial occupancy. But as it stands, what they have is below safe standards, that's why 4 memebers were injured. Let's use this scenario, what if CNFD was dispatched to a neighboring community on a mutual aid call while that fire came in, the city is virtually unprotected until the second alarm crew is manned and in quarters to respond to city business. Hopefully this somewhat answers your question. But the city is playing a dangerous game, at some point, that scenario of being out the city at another call, will leave the city without protection. I bet the powers that be have a fancy explanation of why this set up is beneficial to the city, but they'll have to explain that to a family one day. A lawsuit is already on the city from the lander st fire, where tragically a citizen lost their life, potentially to understaffing at the fire department. I can guarantee that that civil suit will be won in the fact that a responding company had to come from the west end to the east end, instead of basically around the corner. To have the population density of Newburgh, not the census, but actual pop density during the day, school's, businesses, and through travel, one engine, and one truck is atrocious.

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