Craig Dawkins .....Liberty Thoughts

WASHINGTON DC UNION HEADQUARTERS FOR IAFF REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT MIDWEST CITY REPORT A recent report titled, “Geographic Information System Emergency Services Response Capabilities Analysis Final Report” was recently posted on the Midwest City Firefighters Association social media page. The report was published by International Association of Fire Fighters, 1750 New York Avenue, N.W, Washington, DC 20006. No person of authorship was cited. The report highlights eight “key findings” in the executive summary. One startling finding in the report states that the current organization of the MWC Fire Department leaves “approximately 25% of city roads without engine or ladder coverage.” One in four city roads are without engine or ladder coverage? In that same finding, the study alluded to these 25% as not having a four minute response time. Further the report states: “Fire suppression resources are not deployed adequately for the arrival of an effective firefighting force (1...

AFL-CIO IAFF WASHINGTON D.C. UNION HEADQUARTERS ISSUES GIS REPORT (Not a study.) The union headquarters of the MWC firefighters union issued a report using GIS data to analyze from it's D.C. headquarters which streets in MWC it believes are outside the industry standard transit time goal. One of the important aspects of a legitimate study, is that it be done by an impartial third party. These reports that have been generated by the IAFF have been used in various jurisdictions across the US to argue for more union members, aka firefighters. Ironically, as you would expect, these kind of reports issued by the AFL-CIO affiliate never say there are too many firefighters. They have an incentive to make everyone believe they live in a city with too few firefighters. It's a perverse incentive to scare people. While the data in this report may or may not be useful in determining the current and future manpower and structural needs in rescue and fire suppression in our city, it wo...