Detroit Firefighters Cut Again in Budget Crisis
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From Times Wire Reports
Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick said the city would cut 75 Fire Department jobs and deactivate some firefighting units to help address a budget crisis that also had forced reductions in the police force and other city services.
The cuts are in addition to the 113 Fire Department jobs trimmed in July and come as Detroit faces a possible state takeover of its finances. The latest cuts involve 65 firefighters and 10 battalion chiefs.
“Everyone in the Detroit Fire Department is going to have to do more work,” Fire Commissioner Tyrone Scott said.
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