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The outright fabrications are hilarious. How could someone even bid on a state job without proof of providing workers compensation first? And since when is a man slandered for working two jobs to provide for his family? If they were all so wealthy from their FD job like you are fond of claiming, none of them would have to work a second job. It's also ridiculous to think that every other firefighter would support outright fraud in such a manner when doing so puts those very benefits at risk should he ever be hurt on the job. Everyone knows there have been some bad apples in various fire depts. There are bad apples in every organization but its not condoned or celebrated by the rest of the guys on the job. Baseless accusations that an entire organization of 200 firefighters are knowingly complicent in fraud while providing not a single shred of evidence is reckless and ignorant. Furthermore, do you think these guys bang nails or push mowers for the thrill of it? They do it to try and make ends meet. Oh they have all that time off! It's not free time off, they work 48 hours work weeks on the FD. Oh but they get to try and sleep! Guess what chief, they answer every single call every single time no matter what. A taxpayer needs them, they are there 100% of the time. Oh and they call the WFD over 16,000 individual times a year. Steve D is correct, for the most part guys bring food in shopped for on their time off (and paid for by the firefighters, not the city) but sometimes there are circumstances where that was not feesable. Sorry it irks you but most people don't care and they enjoy interacting with guys out and about in the community.

But here is the real kicker, Cote. And this stings more than any witty quip I could produce about you. The vast majority of residents LOVE the Warwick Fire Dept. ( and 95% of those who dont are the same 5 people who rag on them here on the Beacon. ) When they considered closing a engine company, the residents united themselves to fight the move. The WFD isn't perfect but it's a damn good firefighting/ EMS organization and the people appreciate our efforts at providing them great service for their tax dollar. I know because we're told so all the time. I wish you could hear the adulations. We strive to always do the best job we can in both EMS and Firefighting. We deliver what we took an oath to, 100% of the time. So you can complain and throw false accusation after false accusation and sing to your minuscule choir on the DePetro Show but you can't stop the fact that we will always strive to deliver exactly what the taxpayers expect of us, and the majority of them are always going to view us favorably for it. Sorry.

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