Recent reductions and closures in Marion Township, Ohio, assisted in the deaths of an infant and a toddler. Considering that Lacey Fire has reorganized and laid members off 3 times since 2002, the similarities should not be lost on us locally.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/10/marion_fire_folo.ART_ART_05-10-09_B1_GUDQJOI.html?sid=101
Category Archives: City/District fight
Fire Department Reductions Cost Lives.
We are Lacey’s Fire Fighters!
In the past few weeks, our members have significantly expanded our efforts to educate and inform the community of Lacey when given every opportunity. Our interest has been simply to interact with the city residents, provide an opportunity to learn about various needs and concerns of our citizens, and most importantly to tell a side...
Budget cuts in Flint, Michigan.
It may seem a world away, but the problems in our state and our city are being repeated in many locations around the country. Here is a story that went out over national media regarding the impacts of emergency service budget cuts and city budget priorities. This is another reason among many that citizens should...
Local Fire Departments Merge For Efficiency
“Efficiency in government”…I’ll wait a few seconds in case you just fell out of chair laughing at the irony. Ready yet? That was not a typo, but a fact that fire departments in our very of own county are taking steps to provide and improve already excellent service but are being pro-active and fulfilling their...
We’re not against volunteer FF’s.
Recently, some individuals have decided to lambast the Lacey fire fighters as being a group of individuals that are dedicated to only the ideals of a union with no desire to support volunteers. We want to point out that Lacey still has volunteer fire fighters, that nearly all of the career firefighters started out...
Why fire engines go on medical calls.
Some critics have stated that they don’t believe a fire engine should show up on an medical 911 call and some have recently believed that a two person ambulance can solve all ills. We beg to differ and here’s why:National Medical Report
Good candidates wanted
This is a letter that went to the Thurston County Democrat and Republican party. If you are elgible, competant, and have a desire to be fair and open when it comes to public politics, please consider running for Lacey City Council. We are very much interested in causing change and are working hard on many...
Fire Department Cuts Hurt the Retired Most
The City of Lacey’s decision will impact the most vulnerable citizens.
For those of you following the fight between Thurston Fire District #3 and the City of Lacey, you probably know that the city has decided to start their own emergency services entity for a couple of publicly announced reasons. The first reason is that they...
Compromising Emergency Services for Political Gain.
We’ve all read various articles, web pages, and opinion articles about what the city of Lacey and fire district #3’s dispute is about. I am not going to claim to understand or argue why this fight is occurring because I base this entire opinion piece (yes, Ken we know the difference) that the parties involved,...
Why Blog? What we have to say…
If you’ve ever spent time in Colorado, then you know all about the Rocky Mountain Daily News. Within 55 days of celebrating its 150th year, it shut down today joining many other newspapers that have died due to new technology, the bad economy, and the inability to adapt to change. More of less, Craig’s...