NEW BEDFORD As spring approaches a time that is supposed to mark the opening of new public safety center and the decommissioning of a city fire engine city officials have raised their voices, again, to keep the engine in service.
During Thursday s City Council meeting, Councilor-at-large Brian Gomes submitted a motion requesting the council go on record again and send a letter to the administration in opposition to the decommissioning of Engine 8 on Acushnet Avenue.
The motion also requests the decision be delayed so that Mayor Jon Mitchell and the council can work together to find funding that will enable the engine to stay in service.
SouthCoast Mutual Aid Is Our Local NATO [OPINION]
The cities and towns of the SouthCoast are committed to working together to protect each other. Local firefighters, police officers, and EMTs back each other up.
One of the positive developments after World War II was the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the free nations of Europe baned together to defend themselves from Soviet communism. Each nation recognized it was more efficient and economical to maintain a locally-controlled defense system within a larger mutual system that could be called into action in the face of a Soviet onslaught.