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Minimum manning is simply the way the city ensures that there are atleast enough firefighters on each truck to actually put it into use at emergencies. Warwick only has 2 guys on a ladder and three guys in a Pumper. Both are made to operate with favorably 5 but atleast 4 firefighters. It's plain to see that the WFD is already trying to do more with less in an effort to control costs. As for the budget numbers: it's well known that the FD overspends the overtime budget EVERY YEAR. That's not because the firefighters pull a ploy (everyone who works for a company takes vacation and gets sick) but its because the city intentionally under budgets the item ever year as a political stunt and then refuses to actually staff the positions that are in the contract which would actually prevent overtime by filling it with guys who float at straight pay to fill vacancies caused by said vacations and the well within normal usage of sick time. So Cote, place blame where it belongs. It belongs on the city and not on the firefighters or it's union. Police, Fire and garbage are really the only valid reason for local taxes in the first place and unless you want one guy on a fire truck standing outside of a burning house or staring at a crumpled car with injured taxpayers inside, just watching and waiting for more firefighters to show up before they can do anything, you might want to pick another target aside from minimum manning.

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