Did Reduced Staffing Affect the Outcome of the Fire?
Flint firefighters responded to a dwelling fire Monday night which claimed the life of one civilian and injured three firefighters. The first arriving truck (from station 5) arrived to find a working fire with a civilian trapped in a residential home that was not equipped with working residential sprinklers or smoke alarm.
Crews made a daring attempt at a rescue which resulted in three firefighter injuries (all firefighters have been treated and released).
Will these additional cuts affect the fire department response and at what cost to the community and firefighters?
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A great follow up post at Statler911 and Firefighterclosecalls.com
http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/2009/04/flint-firefighters-say-cutbacks-delayed.html
the fact that this happened is completely ridiculous. the amount of structure fires the city of flint increasing at an insane rate and the city is cutting back fire fighters. did they really expect this wasn’t going to happen?
It is a shame that we have to suffer while the people making the cuts are living confortable in there nice homes in their nice neighborhoods and having a confortablr jobd, the rest of us sufffer and havr to desl with the fires.