You may have read several articles in left-wing smear rags like McClatchy newspapers that the response of your local fire company is being negatively effected by soaring gas prices. Spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about how terrible things are is the MO of the left during election years when there’s a Republican incumbent. They may have gone something like this, from Thursday:
WASHINGTON — Now that diesel prices have jumped well beyond $4 a gallon, the volunteer rescuers who protect most of the United States have begun rethinking how they respond to emergencies.
In state after state, fire chiefs are leaving fuel-guzzling pumpers and ladder trucks back at the station. They’re cutting out-of-town training for firefighters. They’re dipping into equipment budgets to save money and clustering errands to save mileage.
In one Pennsylvania department, firefighters even skip community parades because they can’t afford to drive the routes.
“We made the decision earlier this year,” said Ed Mann, who volunteers as the assistant chief in Mifflin County, Pa., where he’s also the state fire commissioner.
Rest assured, though. It appears there’s no such problem in Bucks County. In fact, according to the caption accompanying this beautiful Courier-Times photograph by Bill Fraser, they’re out watering lawns.
The Dolphin Swim Club in Lower Southampton has been without a sprinkler system for weeks. In the meantime, the Lower Southampton Fire Dept. & the Feasterville Fire Co. have been watering the recreational fields using several of their fire engines. Here assistant chief Stephen Brookes (left) and driver Jim O’Brien (right) of the Lower Southampton Fire Dept. use a water canon along with two other engines (behind them) to spray a combined 2,000 gallons of water onto the field.
Things aren’t great out there, but there aren’t riots at Levittown’s Five-Points either.
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