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Originally Posted by Siriusb
After reading it in depth, it is the fire chief that wants to kill the idea. The mayor and most counselors support it.
May I remind Chief Mayme, before amalgamation, there were three fire stations in Charlottetown. There was Charlottetown, Parkdale and Sherwood fire departments. With 4-5x more people in Charlottetown now, why would you think three stations wouldn't be justified. I would love to hear his rebuttal
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The city doesn’t need a third station, it’s needs its two stations better positioned. Downtown can’t be moved because of the nature of the structures in the area, so that leaves station 2 to be moved.
Where would the city even find 40 more volunteers? They’re constantly recruiting to keep their numbers up now.
Anyway, like the Chief said, there has never been a report that recommended a third station in Charlottetown, politicians came up with that idea. They need to let their subject matter experts do their job. The Chief wants to new underwriters study done, that’s where these questions will get the real answers / recommendations…