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Maxpowr9 t1_j9ys1ta wrote

Shitty Herald is shitty.

It's Manchester-by-the-Sea

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Dontleave t1_j9z3xvx wrote

Doesn’t help that they only want to hire 1 more firefighter and the window for the application process ended a month ago. You want more firefighters? Hire them

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ReverseBanzai t1_ja008ct wrote

Have to laugh seeing a post in r/boston about a town nowhere close to the greater boston area . The same day a post about boston public schools in r/Massachusetts

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Trpdoc t1_ja00pmn wrote

Honestly a great idea. Replace the police with firefighters they seem super upstanding and less likely to shoot you bc you’re jaywalking

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RailRoad_Candy t1_ja01hjv wrote

This would only makes sense if fires were black. Only then could leave it to the police to beat out a fire.

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Codspear t1_ja0a15h wrote

Manchester-By-The-Sea is a town that doesn’t want anyone poorer than upper-middle class living in it, just like all the other towns in the region, and now they’re worried because essential services don’t have any working class labor pool to hire from. This is a great case of r/leopardsatemyface.

Too bad, so sad. Build some more housing, including for those working class you despise so much, if you want firefighters again.

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DagothDeez t1_ja0aqxy wrote

They're going to fear for their lives and start shooting the fires

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BsFan t1_ja0f6dm wrote

They should do what Waterville Valley NH did and make everyone train to be police fire and EMS. They are called the fire pigs and I think it's one of only a couple towns in the country that does that.

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baazaar131 t1_ja27jqz wrote

Sounds like a plan considering how little work police really do, especially in smaller towns. They get so bored they pull you over just for fun. They get paid good money as well, look it up. You can find out how much each town pays their police workers. It's more than you think it is. :-D Especially if they have a 'degree', their initial pay rate goes way up. It's the new thing to do, get a 'degree' in like criminal justice or w/e then apply to become an officer. I'm sure this has changed recently, but I know there used to be an upper bound on how good you could do on the exam, due to the belief being too 'intelligent' (a metric as a result of your exam score), results in lower retention times. Intelligence became a liability of sorts.

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roadtrip-ne t1_ja2lnir wrote

Why not just have the sea do it, they’re right by it

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caspa10152 t1_ja38436 wrote

Why don't they just disband their unionized fire department and make it volunteer. I know that's what they do in Long Island. Seems to work well for the rich towns there.

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MelkorWasRight t1_ja3t7hx wrote

oh this will go over well once the cops start shooting at the fires.

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MongoJazzy t1_ja4f8q5 wrote

why is an article about MBTS in r/Boston ?

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