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Same way many, many finacially strapped cities buy new rigs but cut staffing. Its very easy to buy a $500K pumper with 1 check but quite another to pay for a 4-person crew for the entire time the company is in service; from organization on.
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Yes all well & good but like in Canada. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. Whether it is Federal, Provincial or Municipal there is still only one tax payer paying into all levels of Government, so I don't think it really matters how the cheques are divided it all comes out of the tax paying public.
Same way many, many finacially strapped cities buy new rigs but cut staffing. Its very easy to buy a $500K pumper with 1 check but quite another to pay for a 4-person crew for the entire time the company is in service; from organization on.
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Yes all well & good but like in Canada. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. Whether it is Federal, Provincial or Municipal there is still only one tax payer paying into all levels of Government, so I don't think it really matters how the cheques are divided it all comes out of the tax paying public.
Stephen Taylor
Retired Volunteer Firefighter
Retired Career Fire Dispatcher
Yarmouth Fire Department
Yarmouth, N.S. Canada
Retired Volunteer Firefighter
Retired Career Fire Dispatcher
Yarmouth Fire Department
Yarmouth, N.S. Canada