MONTREAL, QUEBEC, FIRE CHIEF SERGE TREMBLAY SAID YESTERDAY that the solution to reducing fire deaths and property loss is more public education, not more firefighters.
While bemoaning the fact that as much as 70% of the city’s fire deaths could have been saved by having working smoke detectors, he ignored the fact that a May 2006 joint report on staffing levels, signed by both union and management representatives, recommended the department hire at least 500 new firefighters to meet National Fire Prevention Association standards.
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Chief Tremblay
Chief Tremblay’s proposal calls for hiring only 102 FF’s over the next five years and adding 83 new employees dedicated to fire prevention. The Union is protesting his plan, calling it “bogus.”
The Montreal Gazette has the STORY.
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