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• The impact of a government shutdown on public safety

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  Here's a breakdown of who is considered "essential" and "nonessential" during a federal government shutdown

• Mich. township votes to leave co-run fire department

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  Garfield Township voted to leave the three-township department, effective December 2019, due in part to "taxation without representation"

• Ill. city votes to cut fire, police positions to fill budget hole

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  The Peoria City Council voted 8-3 Tuesday to approve eliminating 22 firefighter and 16 police positions as part of a move to close a $6 million budget hole

• Ill. city takes first step towards cutting 22 firefighters

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  After a lot of comments, complaints and dire warnings, Peoria officials voted in a nonbinding, advisory vote to approve cuts to the fire and police departments

• Ill. firefighters union: Proposed city budget is harmful to public

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  Union president Ryan Brady said lives will be at risk if the city cuts two fire trucks and 22 firefighters as a proposed budget suggests

• Officials: Pa. fire dept. $500K over budget

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  Reading Fire Department Chief William Stoudt said a lot of the costs are associated with an inability to recruit and keep paramedics

• Austin seeks $38M bond to renovate fire, EMS stations

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  "We literally have been waiting for decades for some of these improvements," Austin Firefighters Association President Bob Nicks said

• Predictive analysis in smaller fire departments

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  Making sure your numbers speak by marrying anecdotal evidence with statistics

• Doing more with less: Fire department budgets, fiscal responsibility

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  Balancing fiscal constraints and expanding expectations by adopting and communicating sustainable service objectives and outcome measures

• NY city weighs options to solve firefighter, police overtime crisis

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  Newburgh officials are discussing how to reduce fire and police department overtime that is on pace to fall far short of more than $700,000 in hoped-for cuts

• Va. town considers closing fire station to cut costs

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  The Danville City Council is considering closing one of the town’s seven fire stations to offset a projected budget deficit

• Mo. fire dept. dispute with city may result in drastic budget cuts

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  The Robertson Fire Protection District said Hazelwood's contract cancellation was illegal and that the city owed the district at least $3.2 million

• Fire and EMS budget planning primer for new fire chiefs

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  Climbing the ranks of Fire and EMS often fails to prepare new chiefs to discuss financial issues with local elected and appointed officials

• Tenn. fire dept. wants to add 67 more staff members

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  Nashville Fire Department officials voiced their concerns and said they “actually deal with having shortfalls” due to low staff numbers

• Ky. city fire and police pension debt grows by $77M

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  Officials said the debt is largely due to a change in assumptions the plan uses to project how much money it will need

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