It looks like Brooklyn has the biggest share of fire house closings due to New York City budget cuts and the outspoken borough president isn�t happy about the news.
Eight of the 20 fire houses on the possible closure list are from Brooklyn, that�s 40 percent of Brooklyn�s stations.
Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz is furious and outraged that any fire companies are on the hit list.
�Of the 20 that they�re proposing closure, eight of them are in Brooklyn and guess what, we will not take it on the chin, no way, no how,� he said.
Markowitz says the fire commissioner has told the city council that if the closures occur, response time will be delayed.
�You know what that means? The possibility of greater casualties and loss of life and we will not accept it,� said Markowitz.
The proposed fire houses on the chopping block in Brooklyn are Engines 205, 206, 218, 220, 233, 284 and Ladders 104 and 161.
Also on the FDNY�s draft list of endangered fire companies are four in Queens, three each in Manhattan and the Bronx and two on Staten Island.
(Source: WCBS 880)
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“Eight of the 20 fire houses on the possible closure list are from Brooklyn, that�s 40 percent of Brooklyn�s stations.”
A little typo would you say?…
Eight fire houses certainly doesn’t represent 40% of the Brooklyn fire houses (as that would imply that there are a total of 20 fire houses in all of Brooklyn). Probably meant to write that it represents 40% of the total of the fire houses slated for closure.