Updates on Ladder #42
Thanks to Cleveland Equanimous Philsopher for the updates on Ladder #42.
In response to the first post about box alarm responses on the night of July 4 and early morning of July 5, be sure to look closely at 2 .a.m., when the responders to a West 31st fire came from the eastside. Wasn’t this exactly what the residents at the public meetings feared, and wasn’t this what Chief Stubbs assured us wouldn’t happen?
And my response to this one, is when someone (Mayor Jackson) gives you his word that something will be done, you accept that. Why wouldn’t we believe what our mayor told us?
And just a point of information, just because there isn’t a lot of noise associated with Ladder #42, don’t think for one moment that public safety is less of an issue in Brooklyn Centre and Old Brooklyn. I am sure that all of you understand “working quietly behind closed doors”.
Although an attempt was made to isolate the impact to Old Brooklyn, it is obvious that these actions of shifting and redeploying assets put the whole city at risk and are a CITYWIDE issue, not a neighborhood-by-neighborhood issue. I have heard from several sources that city departments have already been told to shave 3 % off budgets for next year. What does this mean for a department that is not computerized, that still uses mimeograph machines, and is horribly maintained? It probably means the loss of another fire company.