| 00:00 - 00:05 | The members of Company 1 said "we are outta here" |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | I said "put the paperwork right here" |
| 00:07 - 00:10 | So they go to the county chief's meeting |
| 00:11 - 00:16 | They deliver a letter that says we are leaving the city July 1 |
| 00:17 - 00:21 | But we will continue to provide excellent service until then |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | Excellent service they say!! |
| 00:29 - 00:31 | Continue it they say!! |
| 00:31 - 00:34 | How do you continue something you didn't start? |
| 00:38 - 00:40 | Really, how? |
| 00:41 - 00:47 | You have ten members now, out of thirty... |
| 00:47 - 00:50 | You couldn't get on the street with triple the people. |
| 00:50 - 00:56 | But you are going to run fire AND ems with ten? |
| 00:58 - 00:59 | How will you do it all? |
| 00:59 - 01:01 | You failed to cover 50% of 300 calls annually. |
| 01:04 - 01:06 | But now, but now |
| 01:06 - 01:08 | You will have time to raise funds, |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | maintain equipment, |
| 01:14 - 01:16 | clean up after yourselves, |
| 01:16 - 01:20 | shave off some time to play the xbox, |
| 01:21 - 01:27 | consume copious amounts of "free" coffee, |
| 01:35 - 01:36 | cover twice the calls, |
| 01:36 - 01:39 | and not fail to respond 50% of the time? |
| 01:41 - 01:44 | So I tell them I don't want your notice. |
| 01:44 - 01:47 | I say you all can not come back in the building. |
| 01:47 - 01:49 | So the whole pack comes whipping in, |
| 01:50 - 01:53 | hook sliding in sideways on their mopeds. |
| 01:54 - 01:56 | They didn't respond, |
| 01:56 - 01:58 | They didn't respond that quick to a fire |
| 01:58 - 02:02 | Never in the last two years could they assemble a crew by realert |
| 02:05 - 02:07 | But you lock them out of a building |
| 02:10 - 02:11 | and BAM!!! |
| 02:11 - 02:13 | They are there, |
| 02:15 - 02:17 | in less than ninety seconds. |
| 02:17 - 02:20 | All ten of them, that's enough for two capital pieces. |
| 02:21 - 02:28 | If they would have been able to do that 90% of the time, they would have had a comparable time to the duty crew. |
| 02:29 - 02:30 | And maybe I wouldn't, |
| 02:30 - 02:32 | maybe I wouldn't need to staff their station. |
| 02:36 - 02:39 | So now they are looking at a firehouse location |
| 02:40 - 02:42 | that is three times the distance from their homes. |
| 02:50 - 02:55 | And they are going to make the extra drive to the station and respond back, |
| 02:56 - 02:58 | respond back to the area they live. |
| 02:58 - 03:04 | And they will do all of this faster than they could get a piece on the street with a closer fire station |
| 03:04 - 03:09 | And do it at a higher turn out rate. I mean come on, |
| 03:09 - 03:11 | Stevie Wonder can see that's not going to work. |
| 03:16 - 03:20 | No amount of common core, or carrying the one can make that add up |
| 03:23 - 03:26 | But then again what do you expect from Mopegans? |
| 03:31 - 03:36 | However, response rates doubled in the first 24 hours after they left... |
