Make Fort Worth Fire and EMS Response the TOP priority
625 Comments
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Aryanne Reusch
3 months ago
I <3 FWFD
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Stacy Gilliam
3 months ago
Both of my sons work for FWFD. I went thru this same thing during the 1990’s. Short staff on a rig is dangerous, cpr, fires, just to name a few. You will have to add more fire trucks to fire calls because each rig is short 1 person therefore your short on personnel on the scene. This creates a shortage somewhere else.
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Brooke McCrory
3 months ago
My safety is important
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Kelli Deiman
3 months ago
I want to know my life and property, and that of my family, is being cared for quickly in the event of an emergency. First responders should always be a top priority over construction of new city hall and administrator salaries!
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Leslie Muncy
3 months ago
We need them
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Brian Hekele
3 months ago
Nothing happens in a city without SAFETY being assured. Fully fund our Fire and EMS department with proper staffing.
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Randi Greene
3 months ago
Signing on behalf my uncle Engineer David Greene who died in the line of duty 9/19/2022 for FWFD. Our fire fighters should not have budgets cut putting the citizens of Fort Worth at risk of life saving measures when our fire fighters risk their lives serving Fort Worth every call they go on
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Marc Ellis
3 months ago
Our city deserves to be protected and served by experienced, fully staffed ambulance and fire apparatuses. With the disregard for staffing and refusal to raise wages to be competitive with other cities in the area, we are losing our veteran fireman and medics and newly trained fireman and EMTs to other agencies. We are wasting more money having to consistently train new staff, instead of raising wages and raising our retention rate.
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Shawna Frymark
3 months ago
Cutting safety is not the answer
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Nathan Douglas
3 months ago
Citizens safety
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Steven Burris
3 months ago
Lower staffing on fire apparatus causes more units to be sent to one call. The capability of completing tasks on the fire scene drops causing more units to be sent to one call leaving less units available to respond to others. In the Texas heat firefighters get over heated faster causing incidents to last longer due to less firefighters to cycle though on an incident greatly increasing the risk of heat related and cardiac emergency’s during incidents.
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Lakin Hall
3 months ago
It is just for a city to fund emergency services with the citizens’ tax dollars.
It is unjust to build a $300 million city council building with the citizens’ tax dollars.
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Tiffany Laurenson
3 months ago
City council needs to support the Fort Worth Fire Department and sign a contract that doesn’t include staffing cuts.
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Justin Stone
3 months ago
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) deserve to be compensated more than their current salaries. As the demand for emergency medical services continues to grow, EMTs bear a greater responsibility compared to other EMS services. Their starting pay is comparable to that of a fast-food worker.
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James Gonzales
3 months ago
The way the city of Fort Worth has hired the last few years , not only will the FWFD be without man power, they will be forced to work with weak people that can’t do the job and there will be more Firefighters hurt or even lose their lives too down staffing
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Susan Pitts
3 months ago
First responders deserve more for taking care of us. Get with it Fort Worth.
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Kevin Sandifer
3 months ago
Public safety should always be the highest priority not only to the citizens, but those who are public safety.
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Veronica H.
3 months ago
My husband’s a firefighter so that means we’re all a fire family even if it’s for a different city or department. Let’s go do the right thing.
I <3 FWFD
Both of my sons work for FWFD. I went thru this same thing during the 1990’s. Short staff on a rig is dangerous, cpr, fires, just to name a few. You will have to add more fire trucks to fire calls because each rig is short 1 person therefore your short on personnel on the scene. This creates a shortage somewhere else.
My safety is important
I want to know my life and property, and that of my family, is being cared for quickly in the event of an emergency. First responders should always be a top priority over construction of new city hall and administrator salaries!
We need them
Nothing happens in a city without SAFETY being assured. Fully fund our Fire and EMS department with proper staffing.
Signing on behalf my uncle Engineer David Greene who died in the line of duty 9/19/2022 for FWFD. Our fire fighters should not have budgets cut putting the citizens of Fort Worth at risk of life saving measures when our fire fighters risk their lives serving Fort Worth every call they go on
Our city deserves to be protected and served by experienced, fully staffed ambulance and fire apparatuses. With the disregard for staffing and refusal to raise wages to be competitive with other cities in the area, we are losing our veteran fireman and medics and newly trained fireman and EMTs to other agencies. We are wasting more money having to consistently train new staff, instead of raising wages and raising our retention rate.
Cutting safety is not the answer
Citizens safety
Lower staffing on fire apparatus causes more units to be sent to one call. The capability of completing tasks on the fire scene drops causing more units to be sent to one call leaving less units available to respond to others. In the Texas heat firefighters get over heated faster causing incidents to last longer due to less firefighters to cycle though on an incident greatly increasing the risk of heat related and cardiac emergency’s during incidents.
It is just for a city to fund emergency services with the citizens’ tax dollars. It is unjust to build a $300 million city council building with the citizens’ tax dollars.
City council needs to support the Fort Worth Fire Department and sign a contract that doesn’t include staffing cuts.
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) deserve to be compensated more than their current salaries. As the demand for emergency medical services continues to grow, EMTs bear a greater responsibility compared to other EMS services. Their starting pay is comparable to that of a fast-food worker.
The way the city of Fort Worth has hired the last few years , not only will the FWFD be without man power, they will be forced to work with weak people that can’t do the job and there will be more Firefighters hurt or even lose their lives too down staffing
First responders deserve more for taking care of us. Get with it Fort Worth.
Public safety should always be the highest priority not only to the citizens, but those who are public safety.
My husband’s a firefighter so that means we’re all a fire family even if it’s for a different city or department. Let’s go do the right thing.
Because they save lives every day.
Keep FD fully staffed.