URGENT MESSAGE: RFD NEEDS YOUR HELP!

UPDATE - "THANK YOU!" TO ALL WHO SENT THIS MESSAGE ON TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES! AS PER THE DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF, THE ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT IS SAFE FROM JOB LOSSES AT THIS TIME! NO MORE LETTERS ARE NEEDED. ~ Pam 5/20/09


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THE ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!
PLEASE COPY AND SIGN THIS LETTER, & SEND IT TO OUR CITY COUNCIL!

Feel free to use this letter as a template, and add your own words to personalize it.

Via US Post:
Council Office
City Hall, Room 301A30 Church StreetRochester, New York 14614-1265
Via email:
Carolee.Conklin@cityofrochester.gov, John.Lightfoot@cityofrochester.gov, Dana.Miller@cityofrochester.gov, William.Pritchard@cityofrochester.gov, Gladys.Santiago@cityofrochester.gov, Adam.Mcfadden@cityofrochester.gov, Carla.Palumbo@cityofrochester.gov, Elaine.Spaull@cityofrochester.gov, Lovely.Warren@cityofrochester.gov


Dear Councilmember,

It is no surprise that the City of Rochester's budget this year is going to be one that is greatly deliberated and highly debated.

It has come to my attention that there may be cost-cutting measures taken within the Rochester Fire Department. This would result in jobs being lost, and city residents' lives put in jeopardy.

I find this problematic and unacceptable! Please retain the highly trained and dedicated people of the RFD, and find a way to cut costs in other places. Places where lives aren't gambled with.

The City of Rochester has had many well publicized fires recently, and the RFD has been able to rescue many people who would have perished if the RFD had not been on the scene as quickly as they were.

To ask the RFD to do more with less is ridiculous! If anything, more funds should be given to them, so their response times could get even better!

The RFD is on-call for more than just fires, and they are very proactive in helping neighborhoods that have had fires, by literally going door-to-door to check and hand-out smoke detectors to those who are the most in need of them.

They couldn't continue to deliver this wonderfully high level of service if their staff is reduced, and made to hobble along with a bare-bones crew.

Please take the Rochester Fire Department off the budgetary chopping-block, and find a way to give them the financial support that they deserve.

Sincerely,



Lyell-Otis Neighborhood Association (LONA) Resident

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