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What he has is communications. he pulls up, gives natures and provisions and he gives orders. he can t do any physical firefightering. last question. some republicans have called you elites because you re part of a public union. how do you feel about that? my thing is when they talk about the money, people have to understand for decades, firefighters and police officers have taken less money to ensure better benefits. and we get to a point where, wait a minute, your benefits are too rich. firehouse magazine did a study about firefighter s pay in philadelphia and we were about 35th in the nation in pay. we have to understand, 33 years ago when i came on the job, there was 2,800 firefighters and now we have 1,900 firefighters. i have seen 21 companies close and that s not counting the brownouts. we re spread thinner than anything. ....

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