City fire unions sharply criticized a conservative think tank’s claim that the city should close firehouses and use the savings to upgrade ambulance services, saying such a move would cost lives.
The Emergency Medical Service is inefficient and shortchanges responses to life-threatening calls because it dedicates an “excessive share of resources” responding “to noncritical incidents,” according to a recent report from the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-funded fiscal watchdog.
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