Chief Wade says they need funds to purchase adequate fire equipment.
They’re asking them to consider voting in favor of“The fire service fee is factored in every year into everybody’s property taxes. That is what you pay- a fee for us to come out and extinguish your house is you have a house fire, it’s also for EMS services or anything like that,” said Grand Bay Fire Chief David Wade.
“You can’t really put a price on safety- you can’t put a price on a life or somebody’s property. What we are trying to do is get everybody to understand the cost has gone up for not just the fire gear- the fire trucks, the proper protective equipment that we have to wear- all of that stuff costs money and it’s not the same pricing it was when we first got 35 dollars enacted when we were established,” said Chief Wade.
“Our trucks our outdated,” he said. “They leak water, they cost money to maintain to stop that leak which is new valves. We need updated trucks.” “We’ve got to have that equipment to help better serve our community here. For people who don’t want us to have the fee increase, it’s going to affect them. If we can get that fee increase, it’ll help everybody out in the long run,” said Thornton.Chief Wade says as the department grows, so does its needs.
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