Following a tour of three of the city’s fire stations last week, Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo, D-Atlantic, said he expected to see some issues due to the fiscal affairs of the city. Mazzeo said he’s not “an alarmist,” but he was taken aback by the lack of capital investment in the Fire Department.
Mazzeo was joined on the tour of the firehouses by Assemblyman John Armato, D-Atlantic, a volunteer firefighter of 48 years in his hometown of Buena Vista Township. In a letter to the editor printed Monday, Armato said the Richland Volunteer Fire Company’s equipment is likely newer and in better shape than Atlantic City’s. Both state legislators described what they witnessed as “disturbing.”