NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) - New Haven's Mayor is speaking out today, after the Firefighter's Union blasted city plans to replace an engine with medical units.
The mayor of the city of New Haven (CT) and the firefighters union are at odds over plans to replace a fire engine with medical units, according to WTNH.
"Take into consideration that everything they do it medical calls. We'll have the appropriate vehicles and they'll be in quadrants of the city so they'll be closer to people who are making that call," said Mayor Toni Harp.
Harp says the city has purchased two new medical vehicles and is in the process of hiring more people to staff them. The fire truck at Engine Company 9 will move out to make room for the new units.
“Instead of using our $800,000 mammoth vehicles that are supposed to last us 20 years but are now only lasting us 10, that we’ll use a more appropriate vehicle to do medical calls,” said Harp.