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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing on Thursday raised the possibility that he will recommend closing not one fire company next year, as had been proposed, but as many as three more in other parts of the city.
Rohlfing told aldermen that his department had planned to close one heavy apparatus company next year — either an engine or a ladder truck company with 15 firefighters — and continue brownouts at three other engine companies. Brownouts are temporary closures of firehouses.
Rohlfing said brownouts had become the new normal for the Fire Department. “In the foreseeable future we won’t bring brownouts back into service. My druthers would be to call them what they are. They are not in service,” Rohlfing said.
Full story: Milwaukee Fire Department may close four companies next year, not one