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Friday, February 17, 2012

Cuts Extinguishing Hope for Fire Fighters

Get our firefighters back to work--that from Paul Stackhouse of the Fire Fighter's Association. He tells CHSJ news that, in light of expected cuts to the city budget, they're paying people overtime to man the trucks. 

 He doesn't understand why they can't just bring back some of the 12 holiday relief firefighters who are currently laid off, instead of spending double on overtime.

Stackhouse says at this time of year, they'd normally have 28-32 people working--and the city has let the firefighters down. He says the expected cuts make it a sad day for the city of Saint John.