Big Spring, TX – The Big Spring Professional Firefighters are warning local residents that Fire Station 2 was closed again with no warning or notification from city officials.
“I’m concerned that there isn’t even a sign on the door warning our neighbors,” stated Chanley Delk, President of the Big Spring Firefighters Association, “folks come running up to the door of the fire station all the time needing help. They’re going to see the fire engines inside and assume we’re there, but the fire station is closed.”
Since the Big Spring City Council voted to cut the minimum number of firefighters the Big Spring Fire Department has experienced an exodus of 20 trained, tenured firefighters. Current estimates predict an additional 5-8 firefighters leaving in the next 90 days, creating a public safety crisis with nearly half of the fire department positions eliminated and vacant.
Delk continued, “Every day, your Big Spring Firefighters do all that we can to save lives and deliver public safety, but the closure of station 2 and the ongoing exodus of highly trained and skilled firefighters and paramedics place lives and property needlessly at risk.”
“The city closed a fire station and didn’t even put up a sign to warn citizens. Something has to change.”
(Photo: Big Spring Professional Firefighters Association)
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