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Happy,

Don’t take this the wrong way but you don’t seem to have a great grasp as to how we are staffed. No one is “chasing cash”. No one is going to go bankrupt when the OT ends. I have been around a long time and no one lives off of Overtime. As for the voluntary or mandated. We have staffing levels that need to be met. Every day we are 5 to 10 people short of those levels. We are mandated to fill those spots. There are plenty of times when firefighters are “ordered” to work. Meaning. If your kid had a birthday party and you are ordered to work, you are going to miss the party. You don’t have a choice. Again your misconception that guys will be hurting when OT ends is completely false.