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Firefighters and volunteers urge Baltimore County for more EMS and apparatus funding
Summary
Career and volunteer fire representatives told the District 3 town hall the county underfunds fire and EMS, citing rising call volume, aging apparatus and a need for regular replacement funding.
Representatives of Baltimore County’s career and volunteer fire services told the county executive and council members that current funding levels do not match rising emergency workloads and equipment costs.
Steve Redmer, president of the Baltimore County Professional Firefighters Association, said staffing has fallen while call volume has risen. “In 1990, we had about 1,206 full time employees… Today in 2023 we actually had less personnel, we had 1,128. And those employees ran over 264,000 calls,” Redmer said, arguing the…
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