LEESBURG, Fla. -- City officials debated this week whether firefighters returning from emergency calls should stop off at local eateries to pick up meals for themselves.
In a 3-2 decision, commissioners reverted to a former city policy, effectively allowing firefighters to use the department's ladder trucks to stop for food during their shifts.
Late last year, City Manager Jay Evans changed the internal policy so that members of the department had to return the large trucks between calls and use a smaller vehicle to get food. Firefighters were not happy with his policy change and asked commissioners to allow them to use trucks to make food runs
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5 comments:
I thought that was what ever Fire Department did. Salisbury included!
The one we got wont fit in any of the parking lots probably.
Another 3-2 vote. Sounds like the Salisbury City Council.
I love good bar-b-que after fighting a fire
3:38 PM
If you love good bar-b-que after fighting a fire, then you must be one of the lucky firefighters who has never seen or pulled out a burned adult or a child from a fire.
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