blame all around I’m sure, from politicians allocating funding to management and I’m sure that the unions and their members demand that the overtime tap stays open and flowing as well. we should still be outraged by it and demand good stewardship of our tax $$

so not only is public getting fewer hours per $$, but this FF is probably exhausted and not doing their job as well, increasing risk of death/injury to self and others, compared to someone who took adequate time off to spend with family and recuperate.

there must be a number when we can be critical. it isn’t unlimited, right. so you say 500k cannot be questioned. How about 1 million? 2 millions? what is the line where it can be at least questioned if it is rational?

there is a difference between required overtime, emergency overtime, and optional overtime. it’s massively wasteful to pay someone to do the jobs of two people when you could hire four full time people for the same price.

One firefighter earned almost $500K in a year