New Rochelle firefighters beg council to reconsider cuts
Photo credit: Faye Murman | New Rochelle firefighters attend the City Council public hearing concerning the 2013 budget, which calls for a reduction of overtime in the Fire Department and reducing its minimum staffing levels. (Dec. 4, 2012)
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New Rochelle firefighters packed a City Council meeting Tuesday night and pleaded with it not to cut overtime or reduce minimum staffing levels in the department to plug holes in the city's 2013 budget.
"You already have one firefighter doing the job of two," Bob Zachanino, a member of the Fire Department for more than two decades, told council members at a public hearing. "We can't be the...
