somerville is now reporting 2 and 1 today westwood was 1 and 1
weston was 1 and 1 also apparently westwood and weston will page offduty firefighters to staff the stations when they send 1 or 2 units out of town - this is unique other communities might call in off duty staff by telephone or app - some might ban the practice - boston never calls in anyone that is offduty unless a nuke exploded (except for maybe C1 and C2 on huge fires - and maybe some specialty staff) the general rule for metrofire FDs seems to be that mutual aid should not require the hiring of any extra staff - ie no callbacks - no overtime on the fly - this has evolved over the last 50 years - in the 1970s arlington would blast the airhorns on 2nd alarms and greater - that would activate all the offduty staff - appparently that policy was deep sixed somewhere along the line - not sure why - seems dumbly - very dumbly - especially for disaster fires - like what LA and Fall River just had -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbPzyu-Hj37XUWABe3X8R0ihqQbVA-528nxUnjTsSsXYw%40mail.gmail.com.
