current events firegeezer on 17 Oct 2008 05:22 pm
Going In Circles
AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS MEDDLING MAYOR, Chuck Taylor of Circleville, Ohio, just keeps stepping in it.
The last we checked, Hizzoner was wandering into the path of a collapsing wall of a burning commercial building (see Firegeezer report HERE) while talking on his cell phone. When he refused to leave, a police officer had to arrest him and then removed him just two minutes before his perch was buried under several tons of old bricks.
Mayor Chuck Taylor
Mayor Taylor is back in the news yet again this week. Now he wants to cut down on fire department overtime costs by calling in neighboring volunteer fire departments to work the large fires instead of calling back the city’s paid firefighters.
Fire Chief Tim Tener, getting a little fed up with the meddling mayor, said “No way” was he going to go along with that scheme. “This is more of a safety issue than a financial issue,” Tener said. “It’s the life safety of the public and the life safety of my personnel.”
It hasn’t been reported yet on what the neighboring volunteers think about being pressed into carrying the city’s responsibilities.
Firehouse.com has the latest on this spectacle HERE.
