Well, I knew last Wednesday's community update on the fire department at Northeast Park was a heated meeting, but I certainly hope we didn't scare Chief Forte away! : - ) Plenty of fiery questions were asked of the chief (by community folks as well as firefighters) about whether emergency response times had slipped, given the cuts of the past year to the fire department/fire equipment. The meeting got even hotter when the fire chief said he was being asked to cut another $2 million from his department this year and that there were no guarantees that Minneapolis could place the required number of firefighters on rigs as recommended by national standards.
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