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More than a hundred Local 112 members show up at hearing.

Firefighters’ Union Protests Budget Cuts: MyFoxLA.com

Bob Decastro  KTTV Fox 11

…more than 100 members of the firefighters' union marched to City Hall to protest $54 million in budget cuts.

Dozens of members of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City packed city council chambers, wearing matching white T-shirts and applauding as council members expressed concern over the new fire department plan.

 

the city maven estimates 150 firefighters.

LAFD Firefighters March to City Hall, Protest Deployment Plan

Article includes extensive quote from Pat McOsker, president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City / IAFF Local 112:

UFLAC Launches Facebook and Twitter Accounts.

In order to increase the level of communications between the Executive Board and the membership, UFLAC has launched both a Twitter account and a Facebook page.

The Twitter page is found http://www.twitter.com/uflac , and Facebook page is found at The United Firefighter of Los Angeles City, IAFF Local 112.

Please add UFLAC to your list of accounts and encourage other members to do the same. We will be adding links to these features directly from our website; http://www.uflac.org , in the near future.

– Adam VanGerpen.  Editor, The Los Angeles Firefighter

Mike "FossilMedic" Ward

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  • ukfbbuff

      My 2 cents from California about this, since it impacts our Statewide Mutual Aid System and where I work.

    Reading elsewhere about this issue and the LA City Chief has said the new deployment model will increase responses to medical emergencies.

     Yet in the appratus reductions/closures, you can clearly see four ambulances being “taken off the run”. So something’s not adding up in what he’s saying.

     If those four ambulances are BLS, why wouldn’t you upgrade them to ALS-transport, rather than send just an ALS Engine Company-Non-transport?

      Statistical information is only that and it can be manipulated.

      If you read Joe Flood’s , 2010, book “The Fires” about the FDNY during the “War Years” and the impact of the RAND Corporations statistics on fire responses/activity in their book “Fire Deployment Analysis-’The Rand Fire Study’”, you get down to the actual analysis was done on 8-11 Truck Companies and three Battalion Chief’s responses, and applied City Wide.

      The LA City Fire Chief has stepped on a “Slippery Terrain” and may not recover if as we enter 2011 fire season find  higher property losses due to this as well as an increase in lives lost due to
    delayed BLS/ALS responses.