Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Short-term Solution Preserves Firefighter Levels in Los Angeles

With a unanimous vote of the Los Angeles City Council, more than one and a half million dollars will go towards firefighter overtime in order to avoid the city's fire chief's plan of pulling firefighters from fire trucks to ambulances. The fire chief is under pressure to reduce response times on emergency medical calls. Pacifica's Dan Fritz reports from Los Angeles.