By Scott Yost
The Rhino Times
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — It looks like the county isn’t going to get a Guilford County fire department after all. However, many changes and a standardization of the county’s fire services are supposedly on the way.
About a year ago, Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI) presented the Guilford County Board of Commissioners with the findings of its countywide fire services study that offered, as one option, combining 20 fire departments into a Guilford County fire department that would cover the county, excluding Greensboro, High Point and Gibsonville.
That possibility, which caused a great deal of angst among county fire chiefs and firefighters, now seems dead in the water. However, in the wake of the study, a solid year of major talks among fire chiefs, and a county committee formed to look into the subject, some major changes have now been announced. In fact, some changes in the county’s fire services have already taken place.
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