Chicago residents had better get used to fewer emergency services. The people you have elected there have funneled so much money to housing, feeding and caring for illegal aliens (who they see as future voters), that there isn’t money for police and fire protection. Already, Mayor Brandon Johnson is negotiating “defund the police” cuts from the Chicago Police Department’s budget. Those 1200 positions currently vacant? They’re never going to be filled and they’re going to cut even deeper through attrition.
In February, we reported on Chicago Fire only having two operational aerial ladder trucks in the entire city. A big city filled with very tall buildings. There should have been ten or more.
There have been other reports of CFD advanced life support ambulances taken out of service because CFD didn’t want to pay overtime for specially trained paramedics to staff them.
And now this: The Englewood fire station doesn’t have a single fire truck.
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago Fire Department union officials are calling for city leaders to address a vehicle shortage as they say some fire stations are currently operating without proper equipment.
A large lot filled with city vehicles in need of repair takes up more than a city block on the South Side. It is filled with ambulances, trucks and fire engines.
While the repair lot is full, the fire station down the street in the heart of Englewood, one of the busiest stations in the city, has no fire truck.
Chicago residents voted for mayhem in their city, county and state leadership. Now they’re getting it good and hard.
One wonders, does the manpower at the Englewood station wait at the curb for a responding neighboring station to swing by and pick them up, or do they take the CTA to the scene while the instrumental “The Girl from Ipanema” plays in the background?
Just another reason to vacate Chit-cago and surrounding areas, no “protection” from fire, etc. emergencies, no actual law enforcement “protection”, AND raising property and other taxes to “rebuild” these types of services, and surely diminished value of residential property, especially if homeowners suffer a fire or other emergency destroying the property.
Not like the TV show, is it?
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