Less than an hour after the Proctor fire station scaled back their services due to budget cuts, a house caught fire two blocks away.
Less than an hour after the Proctor fire station scaled back their services due to budget cuts, a house caught fire two blocks away.
The blaze in the 4000 block of N. 25th Street was reported at 7:49 a.m. The cuts, which include the deactivation of Station 13’s fire engine, went into effect at 7 a.m.
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Controversial service cutbacks at three Tacoma fire stations will continue after more than a month of labor talks aimed at averting some budget cuts to the Fire Department have failed.
Proctor District residents should have emergency workers a little closer for nighttime and early-morning medical emergencies come Friday, when the neighborhood’s 24-hour staffing is set to be restored from 12 hours daily.
Shortly before Christmas, Tacoma’s roughly 350 firefighters offered to work one more day per year for the next two years at no added cost – concessions meant to help spare the city from cutting fire services by $1 million, the president of Tacoma’s fire union said this week.
With no apparent resolution to labor negotiations aimed at scaring up extra money, the City of Tacoma is set to move ahead this week with an unpopular plan to reduce fire department service in the Proctor district and on the East Side.
City officials are negotiating potential concessions from Tacoma’s fire union that could spare some budget cuts approved for the Fire Department over the next two years, including unpopular plans to close the city’s only fire station in the Port of Tacoma and reduce service in the Proctor district.
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