By Luke Marshall
The Citizen’s News
NAUGATUCK, Conn. — A change in retirement plans is being pointed to as the catalyst for an exodus of firefighters from the Naugatuck Fire Department. The trend was a topic of discussion among the Board of Mayor and Burgesses Tuesday night.
Deputy Mayor Tamath Rossi said the fire department is expecting to lose up to five firefighters. Rossi, who is the burgess liaison to the fire department, read from a report submitted by Fire Chief Ken Hanks detailing the situation.
“In the past few weeks three firefighters have accepted conditional job offers from other fire departments in Connecticut, in Meriden, Wilton and East Hartford. Two others are expecting offers, one of which is from a fire department in South Carolina,” Hanks wrote in the report.
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