Thursday, February 27, 2020

New Bedford MA FD to close 1 station

https://wbsm.com/new-bedford-fire-dept-ending-controversial-rolling-blackout-policy/

costs $2.7M to operate one company for 1 year

seems kinda high

they operate 10 companies 24/7 - iirc it is 6 engines and 4 ladders -
from 6 stations - so they could change the ladders to quints and cut 4
engine companies - then their 'first company to building fire response
time' would pretty much stay the same - and response time to EMS calls
would stay the same - but backup would be slower to arrive - unless
they got Opticom or speeded up their dispatch process

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