It started out with sweeping plans and a press conference, public meetings and a state study, then a laborious effort to get 5,000 signatures from residents. Now, two years later, the effort to consolidate the township's eight autonomous fire districts into a unified firefighting force has to do with multi-layered response time maps, subcommittees and more studies.
On Thursday night, at one of the subcommittee meetings - the response time committee - council members, firefighters and union leaders studied how fast fire trucks get to all areas of Hamilton.