{"id":42463,"date":"2022-02-04T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=42463"},"modified":"2022-02-04T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:58:44","slug":"jamestown-firefighters-union-issues-response-to-contract-rejection-by-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-firefighters-union-issues-response-to-contract-rejection-by-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Firefighter&#8217;s Union Issues Response to Contract Rejection by City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamestown Firefighter&#8217;s Union issued a response to <strong>Jamestown City Council<\/strong> voting down their <strong>contractual agreement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from <strong>Jamestown Professional Firefighters Association<\/strong> Local 137 President <strong>Ben McLaughlin<\/strong> raises concerns over the department&#8217;s ability to respond to EMS calls.<\/p>\n<p>The contract rejected by Council would have included hiring four new firefighters to man a second ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin said that over the last ten years, ambulance transports have increased from 116 in 2011; to 1,130 in 2021, representing over a 1,000% increase. He added that overall calls for emergency service are up 78%.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin said, over the last two years the department has been working with the community and city administration to, quote, &#8220;find solutions to the pending EMS crisis while also being good stewards of taxpayer resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;While we appreciate the Council\u2019s serious consideration of preventing layoffs in the future, providing adequate EMS response is an essential service that requires immediate action and should be a top priority of our City.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42464\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-firefighters-union-issues-response-to-contract-rejection-by-city-council\/jamestown-prof-firefighter-contract-response-2-3-22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?fit=729%2C799&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"729,799\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jamestown Prof Firefighter Contract Response 2-3-22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?fit=274%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?fit=729%2C799&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?resize=729%2C799&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?w=729&amp;ssl=1 729w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?resize=274%2C300&amp;ssl=1 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamestown Firefighter&#8217;s Union issued a response to Jamestown City Council voting down their contractual agreement. The statement from Jamestown Professional Firefighters Association Local 137 President Ben McLaughlin raises concerns over the department&#8217;s ability to respond to EMS calls. The contract rejected by Council would have included hiring four new firefighters to man a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":42464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10975,1122,7939,2865],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jamestown-Prof-Firefighter-Contract-Response-2-3-22.png?fit=729%2C799&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-b2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42465,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42463\/revisions\/42465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}