Brookline Mass FD faces budget cuts

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/brookline-firefighter-union-contract-staffing/3732857/

want to go from 4 man per rig to 3 man per rig

Carey said every surrounding community has less than four firefighters
to a truck, except the City of Boston.

Brookline borders on 2 communities - Boston and Newton - and maybe
Cambridge by some strange fluke across the BU Bridge

far bigger problem is the lack of 4 wheel steer quints in the tightly
packed neighborhoods - and the ancient dispatch systems - every FD has
their own fire radio channel load - and every FD has their own
dispatch center and CAD

nothing will change- - Los Angeles just burned down 10,000 homes and
absolutely nothing has changed - same idiots still in charge - give or
take a couple