00:00It is 2026.
00:02We have the same amount of firefighters as we did in 1960.
00:07With the call volume five times greater.
00:10We used to run 100,000 calls in 1960.
00:13We run over half a million calls a year now.
00:16The population has doubled between from 2 million to 4 million.
00:20We cannot sustain giving the citizens what they need when they call 911 and
00:25responding in a timely manner.
00:26We should be responding within four and a half minutes.
00:29We are almost at eight minutes when they call 911.
00:32When every second counts, someone is having a heart attack.
00:36Someone is trapped in a car.
00:37Someone cannot breathe.
00:39Every second counts and we know that.
00:41So what we did on labor's back is we pushed this initiative because we are
00:45the ones that are responding every day with someone calling 911.
00:48And this sales tax is going to go ahead and give us more firefighters.
00:52We build our broken fire stations, build new fire stations,
00:55and also all the equipment that comes with it with supporting mechanics that mix our current
01:00apparatus and to keep us going on during the operation.
01:03We build our broken fire stations, build new fire stations, build new fire stations, and go to home.
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