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emw,

Here is the point that you are missing. In numerous communications from the mayor, I have letters explaining to me that when any vehicle is out "shopping", if there is a call in the area, they will respond. What you dont understand is that while these 2 trucks with 6 men were in the stop and shop, the call came in to respond to Tamerisk Assisted Living at 11:00 am. Tamerisk is exactly .29 tenths of a mile (about 586 yds) away from where there was emergency apparatus. They shopped and played around in the parking lot while apparatus from miles away had to respond and they where in that parking lot until 11:08 am.

The mayor and the chief, in their own words have said that when an apparatus is out shopping, the nearest apparatus will respond. That was not the case. Further, as the chief has said in public, the Special Hazard truck is city wide with no designated area.

Its all about optics, and the optics are bad.